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So, I came down with this nasty fever late Saturday night and it didn't break until this afternoon. This means that, for the past three days I've felt and acted like the living dead on some really great psychotropic drugs. In between crazy fever dreams, trying to do homework, attempting to keep the apartment from spinning off the building like a top, etc., I have also been painting in Painter.

I did not realize this at all.

I came to discover my actions today as I pulled up a recent document and found this piece in my Recent Documents folder, the file name simply reading "head." Curious, I opened it and found myself relieved it wasn't weird porn; instead I found a piece of art that, according to the document properties, was last updated yesterday evening, an hour or so after I thought I had put myself to bed. Apparently when I get a bad fever [which, thankfully, is rare,] I not only hallucinate and talk to people claiming to be my muse/guardian angel type folks, but I also create odd art.

Go figure.

Since I don't remember my motivations for doing this piece in the first place, I'm at a loss for the story. Give me some time and another couple of days to fully recuperate, then we'll see if anything comes to me.

[Painter IX, apparently...]

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:iconfaeriecrone:
as far as self portraits go ... maybe this is how your shadow self looks. it must be at least one of your archetypes, your dream selves ...

I would love to see what I see then now.

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Who really knows? In all likelihood all I was thinking was "Hey, this looks pretty neat-o" or something lame like that. Maybe the guy in the black t-shirt who hung out on top of my TV most of the time made me do it. [I seriously need to avoid fevers in the future; that's the third time I hallucinated that guy while ill. >_<]

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:iconrosiebell32:
Wow, trippy. I cna't say ive ever had a fever, but i have had some pretty crazy dreams while being ill. O_o
I like this, even if you cant remember it. :D

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:iconzombiekate:
I'm glad you like it. Thanks!

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:icon3vil-bunny:
:rofl: I love your descriptions!

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:iconzombiekate:
It's totally the truth, I swear! [It's too weird for even me to make up...]

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:iconfaeriecrone:
have you painted him? that might prove fruitful ...

do you know the origin of the fevers?

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:iconhell-on-a-stick:
another amazing work...i have often found that times of extreme tribulation or trance or excess of one type or another sometimes leads to my best offerings...i am sorry you werent feeling well, though..fevers do bite at life a bit....

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I should try to draw him; I think he's a muse, but I'm not really sure. His intentions could be shady, for all I know, since he shows up in normal dreams as well.

I still haven't the slightest clue what brought on the illness. I was probably stressed and over-worked, since that's what brought on such a bad fever the last time it happened a few years back [at least, that's what I assume.] I usually just get tension headaches, but every once in a while my body says "Hold up Kate, you need some Me-Time, whether you're lucid enough to enjoy it or not." ^_^

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:iconzombiekate:
I just hate having to suss out what's real and what's not afterwards. I know the face-to-face conversations were fake but I'm concerned about some of the phone calls...

I shouldn't have been too surprised about making art in the middle of a fever dream [or whatever the hell it was;] I had to stack cans in front of my door to alert myself whenever I attempted to leave at inopportune times and woke up once with a half-finished game of Spades laid out on the floor. I tried to make out the names of the other three players on the score sheet but couldn't, since I have a hard enough time reading my handwriting when I'm lucid. XD

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