Dreams and hallucinations.

A fellow doctoral student I know was telling me yesterday that her Arabic class homework was taking a lot longer than she thought the previous night, so between that and a short paper she had to get done by the next morning she was up till after 3am and then napped on the couch in her living room instead of going in to bed and waking up her husband, especially since she had to be up by 6am.

Anyhow, at one point, though, she looked up from the couch and the light was on and there was junebugs as big as basketballs hovering in the air all over, and then a plant grew up from beside the couch and wrapped around her and held her to the couch. She said that when she first saw the beetles she was telling herself that they weren't really there, she was just hallucinating from lack of sleep, but after the plant thing, she actually woke up on the couch and the light was off and realized that she wasn't really hallucinating, but rather dreaming that she was hallucinating, an important distinction.