If smoking's not for you, eat cheese.

From Wikipedia:
A 2005 study carried out by the British Cheese Board claimed that when it came to dream types, Stilton cheese seemed to cause odd dreams, with 75% of men and 85% of women experiencing bizarre and vivid dreams after eating a 20 gram serving of the cheese half an hour before going to sleep.

Yum....no wonder I love it so.

It's gotta be those blue meanies in there.

fleela, that is quite interesting. Your post inspired me to look up my favorite cheese (Cheddar) on Wikipedia. I clicked the link to an article about the village of Cheddar, in the U.K. Nearby Cheddar is Wookey Hole. Wookey Hole, of course, made me think of Chewbacca, and his personal areas.I immediately began laughing uncontrollably, and started choking on my sugar doughnut.

I had to leave the office and hunch over in the elevator lobby, laughing and choking, alternately. Even now, as I type this, I'm having difficulty containing my perverse, geekish chuckling at learning of such a place. Thank you for inadvertently making my morning.

I have honestly never had a bad or bizzare dream after eating cheese and I eat cheese for snacks late at night 2 or 3 times a week.

Oh man, Wookey Hole. You just made my day.

They have a circus.



Look, they're inviting you to enter Wookey Hole!

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

ETA: Alright, we can get back to dream cheese, if you want; I'm finished with my Star Wars threadjack.

Hey, don't besmirch my local caves! :P

Wookey Hole is a great place to visit...

...you know, there's really no way I can say that now and still be taken seriously, is there? ;-)

Actually I may just pay a visit to that dim, dark place over the weekend, take a few photo's, and let you all see what it's like in there....

#9 - Thanks for offering to share that Wookey Hole in living color, Tane.

#4 - I am in the foulest of moods, but your post has lifted my spirits greatly! :o)

no problem, Clam... if I get anything worth sharing, I certainly shall... share the... um... wealth, so to speak ;-)

Oh, and flee, that's for that tidbit of news! I had blue cheese dressing on my salad yesterday eveing, and then last night I dreamed I was on The Road with my kids in a post-apocalyptic world. Somehow we managed to walk all the way to Australia (don't ask) where things weren't quite so bad. There was a food shortage, but they still had electricity in Oz, and they weren't eating people! YAY!

#11 - Great! I'm looking forward to it, because you couldn't pay me enough to google for images of Wookey Hole. ;o)

Imagine what would show up!!!!

#14 - *shudders*

#4 - Isn't it great to have a place like this to share these thoughts with? Not only are you understood, you are greatly appreciated for sharing. :)

12>

Clearly you haven't seen Mad Max...

Which oddly enough has a touchstone cover that is nothing like the actual movie...

Here's another Mad Max related touchstone:

The "Mad Max" Movies

Yes, TA, I've seen Mad Max, and The Road Warrior, and Beyond Thunderdome.

This wasn't like the movies at all. It was like the nukes never touched Oz.

Maybe it's symbolic... we are doing pretty great over here...

Except that your paper isn't white anymore... ;o)

Since you're doing so well, could you possibly take Mel Gibson back? I think we're about finished with him over here.

#21 - Yes, please do!

Clam, wan't there a John Wyndham novel yonks ago that had a basic premise not unlike your dream? If my memory isn't totally Alzheimered, the protagonist lived (which may be stretching it a bit) in a post-nuclear, very Puritan, community in Labrador, where the normality-police checked everybody and everything all the time. Unfortunately the lass in question was telepathic. Rather more fortunately, she made contact with similar folk in Oz who flew her out just in time. Does anybody remember the title of the book?

sounds like a good book, hf.

#23 - No, I never heard of it. Sounds great though. Let me know if you find more detail on it.

I think I might be up for a reread of The Stand now. I have that copy with the 'bonus material' and I've been meaning to see if if it's even half as good as I remember it being.

Here's a list of John Wyndham books:

The Curse of the Burdens (1927) (writing as John Beynon Harris)
Stowaway to Mars (1935) (writing as John Beynon)
aka Planet Plane
Foul Play Suspected (1935) (writing as John Beynon)
The Secret People (1935) (writing as John Beynon Harris)
The Day of the Triffids (1951)
aka Revolt of the Triffids
Planet Plane (1953)
aka Stowaway to Mars
The Kraken Wakes (1953)
aka Out of the Deeps
The Chrysalids (1955)
aka Re-Birth
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)
Trouble with Lichen (1960)
The Outward Urge (1961) (writing as Lucas Parkes)
Chocky (1968)
Web (1979)

20> I never said it wasn't "white" anymore, I just began to notice parts of the paper where you saw tiny particles of the recycled pulping process in the paper of books these days. For the longest time my Penguin Classics didn't have this, until the James Bond Paperback new cover releases came out and since then everything changed...

It's not a problem, it adds character to a book, kind of like knots in a tree. (which the book originally was)

21> As for taking Mel Gibson back, since he left us Aussies feel he's betrayed us by selling out to Hollywood instead of still making Australian movies. And he dismissed the Mad Max movies as "youthful trash" in his career... HOW DARE HE!

#26 - Whoa! That guy was writing for 50 years!

his wrists must've been knackered by the end of Web... talk about repetitive strain injury!

...

...

...what? :P

Who is that guy?

What about that guy?

30>

No, you don't understand. Who is THAT guy, on First, What is "that" guy, and he's on second.

What we have here is - not so much a failure to communicate - but an interesting mixture of Abbott, Costello, and David Letterman. Definate possibilities!

#23 The John Wyndham novel you were thinking of is The Chrysalids. It's a great book, I would highly recommend it (but then I love all the Wyndham books I've read so far).

As for Mel Gibson, he was yours to start with and we're only too happy to leave him to your tender mercies.

Too right. If he disses George Miller, who gave him his big break, then he has truly betrayed us Aussies who appreciated his contribution to Australian film.

Besides, we're not allowed to claim Russel Crowe either, and he was a much less insane actor in his later career...

What do you mean was? He's still alive, and still acting.

I consider signing up to appear in "A Good Year" a sign of insanity.

Thanks, Dream! I'd sort-of got there by elimination from Maggi's list in #26, but it's great to know that I'm not completely in thrall to Mr Alzheimer yet! (and it must be all of 40 years ago that I read the book)

Since this thread is completely bizarre anyway, i feel no hesitation in adding my contribution:

How cool would it be to work for the British Cheese Board? Doing studies and such?

I'm just stoked about the topic of this group. Normally most topics refer to me anyway, what with all the cheese going on....but this one has both dreams AND cheese. I have found my spiritual home!

run, dreamlike! read the subject! people are going to eat you!

Ya'll leave Mel Gibson alone. He's finding his way through life, it's just that his is much more public than most. I love many of his movies, so I'm not ready to dismiss him, I just don't take him too seriously, like most celebrities. I don't know why I felt I had to post this, I just did.

Maybe it's just that Mel was so fantabulously beautiful as a yoot...

When ugly words come out of a pretty mouth it is always unsettling.

I totally agree with that clam! I don't know why I hollered so for him, maybe allergies do strange things for alliances. What I really feel is that he's made his own soup so he can cook in it. :) Still, it was/is a pretty mouth and some of the movies have been fine. Sometimes I just don't want to know much about celebrities, let me have my illusions.

Finally a GD thread about caving. this minority sport needs more fans.

Wookey Hole .. is actually very lame. Not helped by them leaving the lights on all the time so you get green plants growing in the cave! Though it isn't oftne mentioned Wookey does have quite alot of 'real' cave behind the tourist scenes. Most of this requires diving to get too. A small hole on top of the hill called Swilden's feeds some of the water that emerges at Wookey about a month later! You can follow the wate rin for a couple of hours before you need diving gear. A mansized connection has not yet been found.

Next door however you get Cheddar Adventure Caving, which isn't quite so bad. If you've never been caving before this guided trip is a bit more like the real thing.

I do find that stilton gives me odd dreams, however I don't think I've ever restrained myself to eating just 20g at a time!

I'm going to dive into the cave called my refrigerator and get some cheese to eat. Woooweeee

#46 - Hee hee! You're mind kind of 'caver' maggie. I have special clothes I wear for that kind of adventure... they're called yoga pants. ;o)

Cheddar Adventure? HHHMMM There must be something good there!

Check out Tane's Wookey Hole thread. The pics are awesome.

http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=35463

#45
I didn't think it was lame, Reading, but then I was coming at it from a photographic point of view, rather than a caving one... When the walkthrough tour got to the diving pool, the Tour Guide gave us lots of details about the regular diving expeditions that go on down there... I can only imagine what it looks like when you get into the deeper, less tourist-friendly caves, must be very impressive.

I don't think it looks lame at all, but then I don't crawl around underground for fun. LOL I want it lit and dry down there when I visit.

As a caver, I'd call it tame rather than lame. We don't normally have lights strung down the corridor in caves, but then I've never found cheese at the end of a tunnel....;^}