Last night I was watching Autopsy on Channel 4 – it’s a fascinating program, and the dissection of human cadavers is only one of the reasons why – there are also brilliant explanations and demonstrations of biological processes at work in the human body. I don’t know if people feel squeamish about it but the creepiest thing about the program for me was Gunther Von Hagen’s hat.
The thing is, it obviously had more of an effect on me that I thought – last night I dreamt I was in a medical school of some kind, and a girl brought in fragments of human bodies wrapped in newspapers, including a part of a skull, brains sticking to the insides like left-over pudding. As she unwrapped all of these gruesome items, insects of all shapes and sizes started crawling out of the wrappers and up the walls. One brightly coloured insect walked backwards, and another which stood five feet high looked like a cross between a praying mantis and an alien. The insects took over the room, and then the building, one giant insect with hairy limbs like a spider wearing a cardigan and doing the washing up. Next thing I saw through the eyes of the girl as, having been bitten by an insect of some kind, she saw that everyone’s faces were contorted into demonic grimaces, teeth pointed like needles. I woke up as she was screaming. I don’t know if it was the Autopsy program, or Steven King possessed my brain in my sleep.
On the subject of strange things, Flickeur is an artsy non-stop video with strange music, generated with images from Flickr. It looks a bit like some of my dreams might if I’d eaten enough cheese.
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