{"id":122,"date":"2008-05-11T07:57:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T12:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2008-05-11T07:57:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T12:57:27","slug":"you-can-choose-not-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/11\/you-can-choose-not-to\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Choose Not To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually discuss something as personal as a dream publicly, but this one I really wanted to share.<\/p>\n<p>I had a quasi-nightmare last night.  There was this virus that turned you into this ugly, violent creature (probably inspired by zombie stories, <em>NIght of the Comet,<\/em> <em>I Am Legend, <\/em>and the reavers from <em>Firefly<\/em>).  The people that had been turned were mostly big, powerfully built men at first.  It was their job to spread this virus to other people.<\/p>\n<p>I was in this large building with a huge meeting hall and several smaller rooms intended for other purposes.  The one I was in was a basic meeting room with another refugee I&#8217;d never met before.  She and I got caught by the creature and injected with the virus.  We ran, thinking that at least we could get out before we were given instructions or turned into tools.<\/p>\n<p>As we were running my companion was starting to turn.  A greenish warty substance started snaking a line down her face, showing the change.  She was really scared, and looked at me as we ran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re not turning!&#8221;  she said, out of breath.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, that,&#8221; I said, as if I&#8217;d just remembered.  &#8220;Well, you can choose not to.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, yeah,&#8221; she said, and her face cleared up.<\/p>\n<p>I woke up after that.<\/p>\n<p>But I found it a pretty powerful dream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually discuss something as personal as a dream publicly, but this one I really wanted to share. I had a quasi-nightmare last night. There was this virus that turned you into this ugly, violent creature (probably inspired by zombie stories, NIght of the Comet, I Am Legend, and the reavers from Firefly). The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/11\/you-can-choose-not-to\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You Can Choose Not To&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}