Fevered filing

[glenatron]

Obviously the next thing that happened was that I got hit by what was probably this winter's flu and spent two days in bed unable to move, which was tiresome and painful. This morning I woke up and the fever seems to have broken so I'm mostly just contending with the mother of all sore throats. It's not great, but it's better than I have been.

While my brain was cooking with fever it was trying to create a weird conflation of magic and data processing where it could file away aspects of things to create... something? So a person or their place in a story would be defined by a the way these aspects were slotted together. This was also to do with magic and also a literal filing system, one of which probably comes from watching Once Upon A Time with herecirm and the other from... I don't actually know. But every time I closed my eyes for the last two days my brain was back to obsessively filing aspects or deriving them or creating them and putting them in their drawers so I thought I'd note it down. Maybe I'll have a use for this information later, or maybe I'll just look back on it and think "oh yeah, brains are weird when you cook them."

Comments

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

"oh yeah, brains are weird when you cook them."

This is true. Last time I had flu I was convinced that my car had been hit by a meteorite.

Flu is a git. Hope you're soon feeling better.

[glenatron.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'm certainly a lot more spry now as long as I don't do anything difficult like climbing stairs or standing for any length of time. Much improved.

I am very interested by the things that brains seem to latch onto when a fever hits- those are obviously strong ideas or they just hook in to something. Mine also had a massive ship which must come from the Martha Wells "Fall Of Ile Rien" books as those are what I've just finished reading...

[puddleshark.livejournal.com]

Erk. Being hunted through the bowels of an ocean liner does not sound like much of a fun flu-delirium dream...

[meri-sielu.livejournal.com]

Flu is such an ass, it sounds like we have a similar strain of the flu -.- Feel better soon!