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I guess I'd describe it as a heavy "fullness" when I'd feel it as a child. It was a feeling like I was stuffed with cotton only I could breathe just fine and move about at will. It would typically happen at that twilight between wakefulness and sleep, but it would happen other times as well. I think I related it to a fever or a sickness but I was never sick or felt sick from it. It was not a pleasant sensation, but not altogether unpleasant either and caused me no anxiety. There was an old woman that told me different, though.
Her name was Cora who lived not far from our family. She and her husband were both nearly blind and her husband sold brushes and brooms and cleaning stuff which my mother would buy. My dad would also take vegetables and fish to their house and I often went by to listen to her tell stories. She was a Christian lady and could practically recite the whole bible but she'd also tell me stuff like if a bird was in the house when somebody got sick and then got out on its own, the sick was going to die or warn me to never rock an empty cradle or to throw salt on a fire to ward off spirits. She was actually pretty good at weather telling. One that stuck with me was "for every August fog there will be a winter snow".
She also told me that feeling I was having was a spirit's presence. That kept me up a few nights but I eventually added it to the list of other things she told me that never came true. Then too, she gave my dad a pint jar of peach preserves to thank him for the things he brought. We opened it up and laying on the top was all these bug larvae. It was extremely gross but made us all understand how good we had it because Cora and her husband couldn't even see what all they were eating, ignorance being bliss in this situation. My parents had something of a debate of whether to tell them about it, but i think decided that their good heartedness in giving us their prized peach preserves far outweighed what amounted to a little protein in their diet.
Her name was Cora who lived not far from our family. She and her husband were both nearly blind and her husband sold brushes and brooms and cleaning stuff which my mother would buy. My dad would also take vegetables and fish to their house and I often went by to listen to her tell stories. She was a Christian lady and could practically recite the whole bible but she'd also tell me stuff like if a bird was in the house when somebody got sick and then got out on its own, the sick was going to die or warn me to never rock an empty cradle or to throw salt on a fire to ward off spirits. She was actually pretty good at weather telling. One that stuck with me was "for every August fog there will be a winter snow".
She also told me that feeling I was having was a spirit's presence. That kept me up a few nights but I eventually added it to the list of other things she told me that never came true. Then too, she gave my dad a pint jar of peach preserves to thank him for the things he brought. We opened it up and laying on the top was all these bug larvae. It was extremely gross but made us all understand how good we had it because Cora and her husband couldn't even see what all they were eating, ignorance being bliss in this situation. My parents had something of a debate of whether to tell them about it, but i think decided that their good heartedness in giving us their prized peach preserves far outweighed what amounted to a little protein in their diet.
Ah, culture shock for the win!
A friend of mine came up from Texas for a visit. She's a hugger, likes to hug people. People around here are downright friendly and they'll shake your hand in a heartbeat but we're mostly not huggers around here. Dunno why. My friend was at my church and was talking to a lady at church, and hugged her. Not attack-hug, but hugged her with no indication. The local lady froze for a minute, then hugged her back gingerly.
A friend of mine came up from Texas for a visit. She's a hugger, likes to hug people. People around here are downright friendly and they'll shake your hand in a heartbeat but we're mostly not huggers around here. Dunno why. My friend was at my church and was talking to a lady at church, and hugged her. Not attack-hug, but hugged her with no indication. The local lady froze for a minute, then hugged her back gingerly.
I have dreams sometimes where I can move only very slowly, like you describe. I have wondered for a long time if it has anything to do with the mechanism that paralyzes us to keep our bodies from acting out our dreams, like running in our sleep or whatever. I thought maybe sometimes we are juuuuust cognizant enough to realize that we can't move like we normally do when we are awake, and that causes the odd, "can't move" sensation within those dreams. This is just a theory though.
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In other news, did everybody else know that Bruce Willis can sing? For some reason that cracks me up. I couldn't stop laughing. Yes, the guy from Die Hard. He can sing. Why did nobody ever tell me this?
Also, I found a dubstep remix that I like better than the original song. I didn't think that would happen if I lived to be one hundred. What is going on. Seriously.
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In other news, did everybody else know that Bruce Willis can sing? For some reason that cracks me up. I couldn't stop laughing. Yes, the guy from Die Hard. He can sing. Why did nobody ever tell me this?
Also, I found a dubstep remix that I like better than the original song. I didn't think that would happen if I lived to be one hundred. What is going on. Seriously.
I think you're referencing the end of a movie where he's stuck on the moon? It was Frank Sinatra singing. 
Okay, I looked it up. I was close! It was Swingin on a Star, in Hudson Hawk.
[video=youtube;D8KvM3vZo0w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8KvM3vZo0w[/video]
It gets really good at about 2:00.