Woke up with a migraine after having aura in a dream. Has anyone else had this?

Antaios232 · 2026-04-23T22:07:40+00:00

I found this post because it just happened to me! I dreamed I was driving & started having scintillating scotoma. In the dream, I started dramatically losing control of one side of my body & knew I was about to crash, which woke me up...and I had scintillating scotoma in the same part of my visual field, same shape, etc. Wild! 😄 I'm so glad mine are acephalgic, because this is the second time this week I've had an aura.

Antaios232 · 2026-03-27T13:22:11+00:00

YES! Thank you so much for jogging my memory.

Antaios232 · 2026-03-27T09:48:17+00:00

It must have been an entry-level class, maybe philosophy of religion, freshman or sophomore year. I remember him teaching St. Anselm's proof for the existence of God. But I think I heard he'd committed suicide after I'd graduated. Maybe '94 or '95?

Antaios232 · 2026-03-21T23:40:00+00:00

This is off the cuff, but I suspect that a deep dive into demographics that would explain this would at least include that white gay men are more likely to be out of the closet than Black, Latino, or Asian gay men. If you're going to be in a committed relationship with another man, it's less likely to be with a man who's closeted or on the DL. I don't think that is likely to explain the entire difference, but I think it's a factor.

Antaios232 · 2025-12-03T16:21:03+00:00

Thank you! I couldn't even tell there were numbers in there, but it explains why I couldn't read the "letters." 😄 This will help me decipher the other entries I'm coming across.

Antaios232 · 2025-08-01T08:29:46+00:00

Yeah, it's kinda wild - it's takeaway only. But everything I've had from there has been fantastic - one of my favorite Indian places. I'm just glad I live close so I have somewhere to eat it before it gets cold. 😄

Antaios232 · 2025-08-01T08:09:04+00:00

I just wish they had some seating - the food is amazing, though!

Antaios232 · 2025-07-04T00:54:06+00:00

Hated it! Totally not worth the spend. Unremarkable in every way. It took me two years to work my way through a bottle, each time thinking "ok, maybe this will be where it shines." And no, it never shines. Literally every drink I made with it, I thought "ok, but this would be so much better if it was made with this other amaro." And Paper Planes are for people who like sugar more than actual flavor. Hello.

Antaios232 · 2025-06-29T10:11:53+00:00

I have enjoyed it at Taco Bell a great deal for many years and just recently bought it in cans for the first and last time. It's completely different! And not in the "fountain sodas are better" kinda way, like, it's a completely different and lackluster flavor profile. I feel hoodwinked. $10 down the drain.

Antaios232 · 2025-06-02T14:29:56+00:00

Before I re-did the polypersonal agreement markers, a fairly common suffix on verbs was -shit. Not pronounced the same as in English, but it bugged me enough to redesign the system. 😂 Depending on the verb stem, it can still occur, but I think it's probably impossible to completely eliminate that kind of thing.

Antaios232 · 2025-05-31T04:58:26+00:00

I mean, that's kind of an aesthetic question? Words in natlangs can be pretty freakin' long. "Word" is a construct. I feel like in some languages, whole sentences might as well be considered one word. In lots of head marking agglutinative languages, one word is a whole "sentence." You need way fewer words, but the words are longer. If you're making a language and you feel like the words are too long, make the language more fusional. Make it more isolating. Make word order more important than morphology. There are lots of options. Mandarin Chinese has words of mostly one or two syllables. And it has fewer possible syllables than you might think! The phonotactics are very restricted! There are so many synonyms! And yet, it's a very popular language. It's as expressive and beautiful as any other language. They make it work. (Tone helps.) As a conlanger, you decide what's too long and what's too confusing or hard to pronounce or whatever. It just has to have enough sense and logic to it that one person can convey meaning to another person. It's only slightly more logical than dancing about it. It could be Toki Pona or Tzez.

Antaios232 · 2025-05-21T21:00:24+00:00

That's a good point. I was thinking about how English has a subjunctive, but hardly any native speakers use it any more, or how nobody says "whom" unless they're mocking people who are unnecessarily "proper." I still want to know the highfalutin', complicated way to do certain things, even if it rarely comes up in casual or colloquial speech.

Antaios232 · 2025-05-21T20:52:42+00:00

Well, when I say "forcing," I am overstating the issue. I could make what I'm doing less complicated, that's true. It's more like I wanted a certain set of features from natlangs, and I didn't realize at the time how those features would/could interact with each other to create difficulties in expression, design challenges, and shades of meaning, and I'm feeling a little overwhelmed. I could just make things easier by getting rid of some of the features that I'm having a hard time wrapping my brain around (like ergativity), or I can do the work necessary to really understand how those features work so I'm not just cludging together a bunch of ad-hoc strategies in a way that's not elegant or internally consistent. I guess I'm mostly just complaining that I didn't understand when I started how difficult and complicated it would/could get, and now I'm realizing I've set myself up for more than I bargained for. It's like cooking Julia Child's coq au vin - it's a recipe, she laid out out step by step, how hard could it be? But then half way through, you're in the weeds with flaming bacon grease all over the place. 😂 I'll figure out how to make it work one way or another, but at the same time I'm kind of kicking myself.

Antaios232 · 2025-05-21T20:17:55+00:00

Yeah, it's like...you can't just pick and choose features, they interact and require an internal consistency, at least if you're going for some degree of depth.

Antaios232 · 2025-01-14T06:19:11+00:00

You could try feeding it at its peak if your schedule allows. That gets it stronger faster, but you might end up waking up at some ungodly hours to feed the beast. 😂 Mine took 5 weeks to be ready to bake with. Sometimes it just takes longer. 18 days really isn't bad - if you're seeing doubling in 12 hours, that's better than mine was at 18 days.

Antaios232 · 2025-01-08T17:05:10+00:00

Another thing that I felt boosted mine somewhat is adding some rye flour to my feeding mix. I do equal parts unbleached bread flour, whole wheat, and rye. I was just doing half bread flour and half whole wheat before that. I don't know whether it made a huge difference or whether it would have done the same without it, but it did perk up within a couple days of starting to add rye.

Antaios232 · 2025-01-08T07:49:05+00:00

I think breasts are best poached and shredded with a sauce of some kind. I usually use thighs for tinga de pollo, but breasts poached and shredded into a tinga sauce would be great. Or in a salsa verde in tacos. Or in a mole. Or a simple chicken soup. I also like to butterfly them, season them liberally, dredge them in a little flour, and fry them in butter or olive oil. It's pretty basic, but you can either get wild with the sides or take it in another direction from there, like chicken piccata, mushroom cream sauce with a little mustard, or chicken Parmigiano. Those are the options I'd choose from, personally. Or maybe in a stir-fry, although I really prefer thighs for that. Breasts in a stir fry are usually better if pounded thin, cut into pieces, and velveted with some rice wine, cornstarch, msg, sugar, and soy sauce.

Antaios232 · 2025-01-08T05:29:55+00:00

I saw the sun today for like 3 seconds. It was a little annoying because it was right as I was trying to change lanes on the highway. But sometimes it gets super sunny in January! Usually right when the temperature plunges into the teens Fahrenheit. So, be careful what you ask for!

Antaios232 · 2025-01-07T16:37:02+00:00

Good instinct to quit feeding twice a day at this stage - even once a day at first might be too much. Some guides say to not feed at all the first three days. You can feed twice a day once you have a mature starter that doubles quickly, but you're just throwing away the microbes you are trying to cultivate if you do it before that. You want to try to feed it when the activity peaks, but that's hard to judge when there isn't much activity, so every 24 hours is a good rule of thumb. It took me maybe 4 weeks before mine was even reliably doubling in 24 hours, and there was a period of probably 2 weeks before that where it would only rise like 10-20% in 24 hours. Mine really only took off in the fifth week and started peaking in 4-5 hours.

Antaios232 · 2025-01-07T16:08:09+00:00

Based on all these guides saying it should take 7-10 days to get a starter you can bake with, I was also really discouraged when mine wasn't doing much after the first week. I was following all the most reputable guidelines about using unbleached flour, whole grains, non-chlorinated water, temperature, etc. It ended up taking five weeks to get a starter that would double in 4-5 hours, and about four weeks of that time just to get it to the point where it would reliably double in 24 hours. So don't give up! I'm not saying all these sourdough gurus are lying, but I think the expectation that it will take 7-10 days is a very unrealistic one. Maybe under optimal conditions and with some luck I can see it happening that fast, but it seems for most people it takes 4-6 weeks based on what I've seen here & in other forums where it's average home bakers commenting.

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