{"id":29284,"date":"2022-01-25T20:55:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T02:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/?p=29284"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T01:27:50","slug":"easy-little-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2022\/01\/25\/easy-little-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Little Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had my first successful nap in 10 days.<\/p>\n

Despite being tired and needing to rest, when I had the Rona, lying down often resulted in a shift in my head and chest mucus, prompting yet another coughing fit, so napping was impossible, and sleeping at night was tough.<\/p>\n

Today, though, I balled up in the living room couch quite cozily, and dove into a hard, welcome nap.<\/p>\n

The first thing I dreamed was that Abby was there with me, as simple as that. I could feel her breathe.<\/p>\n

\"Even<\/a>
Even reflecting on the obvious can bring us to unexpected conclusions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then the dreamscape shifted. At first, I was convinced that I had to accomplish something like answering a riddle, and if I got it even partially wrong, all the consciousness of the universe would vanish with no hope of being restored.<\/p>\n

Next, I was trying to escape some kind of a plot to end the world. Mackenzee Crosby\u00a0 and I were forced into a maze of trickery and exploration as we probed through streets that were sometimes made of asphalt, and sometimes made of cotton candy. We eventually realized that the plot was to flood the world.<\/p>\n

\"Did<\/a>
Did the vax have a hand in these dreams?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rounding a corner into a child’s room, we see millions of white and blue balloons floating around us. The white ones are hydrogen, and the blue ones are oxygen, and at the given time, they would collide and combine into water, along with, I am told by an explanatory video, hundreds of light sabre duals fought with blue and white fluorescent\u00a0 light bulbs.<\/p>\n

At an opera we are led into the basement through a trap door, where we enter a room made entirely of shiny brown leather. We see a fat man in a leather bed, where I sit and give him counseling for his depression. At the session ends, I pull a straight razor from a cubby in the side of the bed and say, “So I guess you won’t be needing this, now.”<\/p>\n

I look up to realize the watering has begun. Balloons are colliding and water is rising. We escape through a street-level window, Mackenzee pulling me through at the last possible second. We are in an alley at a biker bar. I see children who have obviously gone insane. The water continues to rise.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/a>
How much of our perception depends on our perspective?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had my first successful nap in 10 days. Despite being tired and needing to rest, when I had the Rona, lying down often resulted in a shift in my head and chest mucus, prompting yet another coughing fit, so napping was impossible, and sleeping at night was tough. Today, though, I balled up in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,20,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-abby-and-richard","category-essays-and-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29284"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32764,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29284\/revisions\/32764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}