An audio deep dive Podcast all about me – OrangeJeff.
Dream Universe
I love that I have elaborate dreams with celebrity guest cats and their own universe of places and rules. I often remember enough of them to post.
Story ideas to abandon
fiction, game, Interactive, space, story
The first draft of an interactive game where each episode ends with two choices. It is based on a concept from a telephone game I played in the ’80s on star phone called Star Commander.
October Dreams
I love October dream season. The weather changes and my dreams become more vivid and exciting. Here in the mountains 800 m above sea level those October dreams seem to come in August. The last few nights I've had amazing multi-story large cast script type dreams. They stayed away fast if I don't wake up and write them down but even if I get that chance I can hardly touch on the vastness of my...
Adam Sandler and I had a dream
A new dream
The gate I invented instead of sleeping.
It's just past midnight on a mid December Monday. My brain is thinking of the connections that had to have happened previous to tonight that led me to my latest iteration in my mind of the auto closing farm gate. My early days on the farm involved occasionally being a passenger to the car or farm ATV around the property. The passengers only duty is to open and close the various gates before and...
Scripted Dreams
I almost always dream in a universe seperate from my reality. It has differences from my awake world but it's pretty consistent within itself. Then there my scripted dreams. I'm not always in them.Dreams that are presented more formally as either existing movies or TV shows but with original plot lines and characters.These dreams often come to me if I go to sleep with an unresolved show fresh in...
I took out the garbage – in a dream
I forgot to wake up before I remembered to take out the garbage to the curb this morning.
I had my phone in a dream… Sort of.
It's an unusual aspect of my dreams that I don't seem to ever have a working modern cell phone. They are either out of power, or an older phone without contacts or some other obsticle. This evening, while hiking down the side of a hill I happened to see a phone on the ground, identical to my current Samsung S9 plus and by an unbelievable coincidence, equipped with the same battery case I have. I...
Morning whine with breakfast
I'm not sure why, but this morning, one of the dogs wanted my attention. Within minutes of the master leaving for work at 5:30am, I was disturbed from a really cool dream by his bark. It was a night time bark. Muffled just a little, like he was trying to whisper a bark. Then, after about 20 seconds... Another. I remember this. It's his passive aggressive way of distributing your life. A bark...
Off meds madness
Today is Sunday and I have not taken my brain meds since Thursday morning. Although I've gone up to five days without once over the years, I seem bothered this time more than other days. Sleeping is tough. Dreams go crazy and a bit scary when I fall asleep. Relative humidity is under 20% at night, and my bed has bugs everywhere. I have developed pretty severe allergies to them and they cause...
Wakey wakey
breakfast, dogs, feeding, pig, rooster, waking up
I only woke up twice last night and I only had to pee one of those times. Then I woke up about 5:15 a.m. and was going to get up and start my day and then suddenly the 7am alarm went off. I don't actually come out and open the chicken coop and feed the animals till about 8:00 a.m. now because it stays dark and it's reasonably cold so I suspect they are quite content to sleep that extra half...
Going to see {Deleted}
dream, movie, sideways elevator
I don't think I'd call it a nightmare. It's more of a frustration dream, complete with the sideways elevator. A bunch of my familiar friends went to see a movie in an unknown mall. The theatre had 14 screens and none of us had heard anything about even one of the film titles playing. This is a very real side effect caused by moving away from cable/network television with commercials to Netflix....
Driving up Eglinton, kind of
I woke up from an interesting dream just now. I was playing with a balloon on a wire that lit up and I was playing with it from a distance over this pond that used to exist between my house and my neighbors house and I was playing with it and it lit up really neat ways as I moved it back and forth and I was getting ready to tell my friend about it and show her and see if she could do one too and...
Alternate Dream Universe
I don't know if it's common or unique to me, but the universe that I live in is separate from the universe that I dream in. The universe of my dreams is fairly consistent in the way that it's different. There are a number of places that are regulars for me although they change minor details from time to time I do seem to hang out a lot in a hotel in Vegas, but I never get to go to the Vegas part...
Meme Cops
I woke up but didn't open my eyes yet. The dream I was having deserved more time, so I stayed in a not quite awake state to develop it more. It started in our high school library, where we were sitting down to eat lunch, the story is still incredibly detailed in my mind but I fear I'll lose it soon as I regain my daytime consciousness, so I'll just tell the highlights. Phil was wearing an...
My Sleep Day
It's a Friday. I woke up around 4pm for the 10th time. Some amazingly cool dreams between my naps. If only I could write them down but my mind drifts when I try. Still, I'm flipping between the memories as I watch TV. I remember parts as I see reference triggers in the show. I was in the future in some dreams. Neat stuff. The details of the dream were oddly scripted and specific. I'm having...
8am wet food
dog, feeding, hens, morning, pig, rain
It's not really raining hard this morning. I seem to be lucky so far this year that the rain is either before or after I need to go out and feed the animals. It was barely drizzling or spitting. I don't actually know if it was raining at all or if it was just the wet trees dripping on me. To my surprise the chickens and the pig both happily came out of their coop to find food. I wasn't fully...
Good Good Morning.
I was woken out of an awesome long story dream by my alarm at 7am. This is an amazing first. I didn't look at what time it was that I was last awake to pee but my first really good long story dream that kept me asleep until the alarm is a new or at least new in the last three years experience. I remember a great deal of the dream although that won't last probably. It was surfaced around being in...
Summer Falls by the Falls
blog, draft, feeding time, general, messages, read, rooster, shared
I had a fall this morning. It was scary shit for a short while because it was a multi-stage fall knocking over various things as I tried to save myself on the way down. I don't remember what started it. Things like happen unexpectedly and you're not concerned about why your falling as much as how and where you're falling. I was not injured at all but it could have been worse. I had mete seconds...
Beginner Mistake on an important Friday
A lot of this week went right, despite the underlying sicknesses (plural) that I ignore to dangerous abuse levels. Recently I discovered my pill bottle on the floor next to my bed. That's where I start this story . I have no memory of the last time I took them. My ADHD comes with a kind of object perminance. Once the bottle was not in its usual spot, it longer existed for me. My guess is around...
Sickness update
I got some xlax today thanks to a kind donation. I'm not sure how well it will work on this brand of weeks old dehydrated constipation but I just took one at 8pm so we'll see over the next two days. Apparently some of my dreams may have been fever dreams which are bad but it's hard to tell when the room is 93° I'm dehydrated again and peeing frequently because my body doesn't holduch at a time....
Dream Update
I've been sick, but invisibly sick. I have severe constipation that has gone on much longer than I should have let it. Last week there was a bit of a reprieve and I let a medium shit through the blockade. I chose to ignore it again and now it's probably been x days. Shame permits me to say x rather than the real count. During the past weekend, I decided not to eat. This is aided by the fact that...
My Nemesis… The Rooster.
I forget his name, but I don't remember anything from my past I wanted to kill more. I dream about the ways. Roosters are kind of useless most of the time. This one is all up in your space, and if I'm not careful, he'll make my ankles bleed. I want to kick him like a football and never see him again... But I can't. To be fair., I've never really kicked a ball with much success.
Thursday Morning
My bedroom clock somehow lost almost an hour while I was away. Unusual because it's never really needed adjustment before. Perhaps it slows when the battery weakens. I guess that makes sense. Some things just stop working when the power gets low and others work slower. My body does both. Yesterday was a detox day. No drugs and I didn't get out of bed. Today could easily have been the same but I...
Monday customer service
Yes Hello. I'd like to exchange this current life for a new one. I don't like the amount of effort involved. I was mislead about how it would be better. I realize I've only had this new life less than 30 days and I can change my mind and go back to my previous option of no life if I wasn't satisfied. I'm as surprised as anyone. Who would have guessed I would prefer the life I constantly...
I’m freaking out on the inside
It's only 8am on the morning after the first day back post COVID. So much has restarted for me at once. I don't want to fail, but most of my life experience is actually in failing and running away.I spoke with the boss. I volleyed the idea of coming in later in they day but it was more of a gesture. I need this sleep. I start to remember some dreams like they were real experiences
Replacement Monday
It's a Tuesday here in Toronto but it feels a bit more like a Monday because we had a long weekend holiday Monday. It was supposed to be a rest day so I could start my office job again. I have only worked 4 days before they shut us down to stay at home with COVID. My experience was quite mild because of was vaccinated. That's the story I choose to go along with anyway.I am eager to return to...
Time to celebrate, by sleeping
I can hardly bring myself to blog, which I seem to remember is a common symptom of my depression. Ironically the periods of my life I'd most like to document and remember are those times when I least feel like writing. I suppose smoking a little weed might help, since the majority of my blogs are influenced or at least inspired by my high mind, but I'm not getting high these days. I'm living in...
Global communities ideas
business, Business Ideas, Genius
This of course may fade away until I recycle it again as my dream. It combines all my ideas. Helping people with a trust relationship. Encouraging discussion over the validity of ideas or business ideas. Creating communities and providing guidance on interaction. Learning from trusted faces Referrals are the best Manners because it's closed by invite Commissions and sales and services. Stores...
Wild by my standards
draft, life, read, Second Life
It's 6am and even though I asked and she said no, when 8 asked again, I ended up changing her plans and spending the whole night talking. It's what I wanted and I get high enough to believe it's enjoyable. I know interaction with high women who I click with is the most fun I have, and indream of how we could work to be a success. Later in life, I learned that's a weed stoner thing. If nobody...
It should be a No-Brainer
I am sitting outside in Ontario Spring, listening to horny birds chirping like kids on the first day of school. Each catching up with friends about how they spent their winter down south. I'm waiting on my rideshare to Toronto. A $155 fair with a new untested local company trying to complete with Uber, who wanted $250 for the same ride. Both are ruining my budget this month. I'll take a bus...
Today was a sad day.
I slept in till around 3pm and had some cool dreams. My car hot towed again. I think that's the fifth car I've lost in my dream universe. That's how my day started. The month of February is almost over. I've been off drugs and I'm now waiting for March and money to get high again. I may not have any money left anyway. I fell a little behind on my bills because the electric bill nearly doubled...
Oh yeah… It’s Friday already
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It's not like there is any real significance to weekends when you're at home 24/7. I still honour our cultural traditions and not get high till Friday. But I got high not remembering it was Friday. This week went by fast for me because I have important work, and I've blocked it mentally and put it off till they ask a second time A joke from Coming to America I repearmt frequently, but I'm high...
Regular not black Sunday
The loneliest place I visit No. December can be a lonely time. It doesn't help that the entire month leading up to December, is Black November. At this point, it's getting to be a little ridiculous. As I understand it, the retail market in United States uses black Friday as it's clearance day. It started as an equivalent to our boxing Day but before Christmas rather than after Christmas where...
Sunday… Not so fun day
I woke up this morning and stayed up. It's almost noon and instead of sleeping back to back. My dreams over the last week have been vast and elaborate. They somehow got linked to duty and dreaming was a part of a mechanism. I felt ok to be sleeping as a day job. No guilt. That isn't fully true. I had some guilt, but it went away when I'd go back to sleep. Some dreams lasted through episodes ND...
Sunday is prep for Monday.
I woke up this morning and stayed up. It's almost noon and instead of sleeping back to back. My dreams over the last week have been vast and elaborate. They somehow got linked to duty and dreaming was a part of a mechanism. I felt ok to be sleeping as a day job. No guilt. That isn't fully true. I had some guilt, but it went away when I'd go back to sleep. Some dreams lasted through episodes ND...
Another week without a Thursday
This isn't the first time I have sincerely been surprised to discover it is Friday. I ever seem to live Thursdays anymore. I really believed today was Thursday. Another entire week has passed and I've done almost nothing but sleep, dream, and write about sleeping and dreaming. It's 8am on this new September week and I'm ready to sleep some more. I survived the night without water, and it was...
Live Brain Transcript
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0:04 I absolutely hate when one single click. Takes me so far away from what I was doing that sometimes I don't make it back. Period. Tonight was therapy. I shared who I am, with someone seeking approval that I'm just interesting enough to want to see more, period. I have a bad habit of telling opinions, as if they were fact. 0:51 But I always try to correct that if I noticed tonight. I talked...
2020 birthday 57
Today is my birthday. It's not a happy day I'm kind of sad. My life has changed more in the last year than perhaps previous 56. No, that's not fair. My life can you turn off a lot in the Years 1 to 10 them pure. But, I don't really remember those so let's just agree to say this has not been a good year. Almost 100% of my friendships have been online drug users. Not to say those are not equally...
Occasionally I have stopped so what could I do if I want to, could I do if I was motivated enough. If I had some assistance if I had some support. My current dream. It’s based in reality, it could be. It’s not impossible. None of my dreams are actually difficult to tackle by someone who had the ability to start and complete tasks, but I don’t. I’d love to get in motorhome and tour the country lecturing about some of my philosophies, of which I still hold on to pride.
The idea of stories we tell our own stories and my stop here. I don't feel motivated to expand upon my universal stories just now. It's better to cling to it, with high hopes and optimism. Say it out loud, realize how lame might be.
Otter Transcribe.
Transcribed from voice before I learned how to retain pauses as paragraphs. I am evolving into a technology of the past. Period. Let me explain. I am improving the way that I do things by using the technology of the fifth and sixth keys, period. I am dictaphone in my blog. And although I don't have a secretary in the office. I do have a phone, and the Internet has allowed me to translate and...
Spoken writing is a weird normal
I am evolving into a technology of the past. Let me explain. I am improving the way that I do things by using the technology of the fi 70s. keys, I am using the modern day Dictaphone. I use my voice to type the words. I am voice blogging. maybe I should copyright the slang that will come. first the best blocking and then video blocking was the logging some should this be best logging for speech...
Chapter 7. Guelph.
I'm coming up on my third week in the new home. It surprised me how little I've changed, despite a vastly different set and setting. I'm still being stealthy. I'm still living in a single bedroom trying to be quiet late at night as my room mates sleep. My bedroom is listed out with pretty much the same floorplan, computer, bed and TV. I have limited contact and hide out in my room working...
Blogging through tears
Its 11am Monday and I wake up as if I've been sleeping for days. It was just Sunday I slept through, mostly. I had the most glorious dreams, enhanced by frequent wake-ups so that I could realize their story a bit before going back to sleep for the next chapter. I was involved in such a great story with a murder and a gang of colourful characters incuding a dog names Joe that Methew Broderick...
May 5th
[widget id="wpwws_widget-2"] Hi, I was pleased that the day old Pizza lasted two days old and was good for breakfast. This is the last of the discount Pizza Hut's they're taking their sales away. I ate a lot of pizza over this. Like you have no idea. I could show you and you still wouldn't be able to comprehend because not all the piles of pizza boxes are showing but there are 50 pizza boxes...
Monday without chocolate
I'm on the subway a bit later than usual. It's almost been as I make my way downtown for my office duties and paycheck. I didn't have chocolate this morning and the pop tart breakfast wasn't effective and clearing that bad mouth feeling. I don't have much cash but I think I can manage a donut. It's 2009 and I think they're still under a dollar for the basic ones. Probably the cheapest palette...
I was doing so well.
There is a moment in the life of any substance users life, when they remember a better life. No. I already changed my mind. I won't speak for them. I am always comparing myself in a quest to be more normal. It leaves me in a never-ending quest to change. My role model is absolutely everyone else. I think that may be more common than... Change. I can speak for me. I have a loop. A save point in...
Surprise. We had to wake you 230 years too early.
draft, life, read, Second Life, surprise., wake, years
About 10 years ago, I signed the card that came with my driver's licence, allowing my organs to be donated when I die. I couldn't see any good reason not to because no matter what the after life turns out to be, I'm certain it won't be filled with the few hundred people who cryogenically froze their remains. I was sent a follow up card from the government recnetly asking a couple of additional...
Day 1. Orientation.
I heard a distinct Bing sound and that was the first time I was aware of anything. Everything was black and I couldn't really feel inside myself. It's a hard to describe a concept unknown to anyone. If a blind person asked you what blue was you would describe things that were blue, which would be useless. I just was. A thought hearing a ding. Attention. Attention. I'm Doctor Phillips and I have...
Genius idea.
I think I'm ready to go home now. Before the literal fireworks might begin. I don't want to be carrying a tray full of beers when those bangs take me off guard. The above two sentences were here when I opened up the blog. They're from Sunday. Tonight I wanted to blog an idea for an app. A lot of other social media share apps use the word story to create a blog... Oh wait ...
It’s right there… My future.
I'm feeling great. I've still got a few issues, but the drug changes have settled. Ironically, I just got a call that I can order from a third option. Good old Apotex, which is the biggest Canadian generic drug manufactuer. I still liked the first generic brand, but hated the second. This brand has two side effects. (1) It's time release is more gradual, which is probably better, but I got used...
The Wednesday that was Monday
Live Brain Transcript, Personal Journey
I woke up from another dream at around 7am today, a Wednesday, but it was a fresh awake wake-up. The first I've had since my medication screw up almost 3 weeks ago. I stood up, and didn't lay back down again. I sat at the computer and started my morning work routine right away. Had some fresh cold water from the fridge, took my pill and logged into Facebook with a refreshed morning feel I...
The Wednesday that was Monday
depression, dream, Live Brain Transcript, meds, paxil
I woke up from another dream at around 7am today, a Wednesday, but it was a fresh awake wake-up. The first I've had since my medication screw up almost 3 weeks ago. I stood up, and didn't lay back down again. I sat at the computer and started my morning work routine right away. Had some fresh cold water from the fridge, took my pill and logged into Facebook with a refreshed morning feel I...
Ignoring advice.
I did it. Â Not the first time, but since I never really felt any effects from the last of the bad things to try. It's a more scientific testing of somw china white powder, a drug which was at the end of my trial list but not really for me. Even if it worked, which seems not to be the case, I don't need a relax drug so much. I prefer the ones that are more fun for my brain, and the way I think or...
I wish this would be as good as I just imagined
I walked into my kitchen two weeks ago, and there was a camera crew huddled in the other entrance like college kids trying to see how many they could fit in a telepne booth. As I visualize that in my imagination, I suddenly remember; oh yah. I'm old. Many of my readers might not have ever seen a telephone, before they truncated the word, and the booth down to a payphone on a pole with two racing...
I just did a whole series of bad choices
Bad me. It's been 6 minutes since I typed that, and then lay down staring up. This is the progression. Or as far as I can get. Having insomnia issue that kept me up, despite tired. Sitting pondering. I lay in the pretending to sleep mode but at a time in the evening, I give up. It is my way to avoid. It has been my way. Ponder 1. The weed I bought is strong indica and the new dab...
Decide between No or No later
I want to run. To give up. To fail and start again. It's kinda my thing. Key phrases from my therapy pop back up and I reframe them as reasons to fail. Completing things is where all the risk comes, in life and web design. It's admirable to be in progress and trying. When it's done, it might not be perfect. People might not like it. I will find some way to call it a fail, but when it's a work in...
A bad thing for a good reason.
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I'm not sorry. I do not regret today's desision... But of course, I'd say that now, still under the influence of a euphoria I previous denied. I am euphoric and creative and excited. I have been writing all night. My normal behaviour was to take some MDMA and try to find somebody to help me with my lifelong quest. The quest for my partner. I try to go into business either with one of my top...
The Orange Shirt Creative Community
club, community, free public domain, Genius, income, royalty free, scripts, vanilla, video
My idea for the moment. Everyone needs a good community. A group of friends to share ideas and do stuff with. People who care about you and keep you distracted and fun on a lonely evening. Everyone, but specially awkward singles of any age. I propose an online community idea that could be done easily and cheaply but benefit a whole lot of people. This proposal was written on weed with...
WATER – Frequently Asked Questions
I used to read articles in the newsgroups before the Internet really took off. Many were informative but many were for fun. This one... you can decide for yourself. This is not my work. It was just shared with me recently from my old collection of text files. "WATER" Frequently Asked Questions - alt.drugs Version 0.5b - June 4, 1994 This file is intended to answer typical questions about Water...
It’s not real money. It’s Monopoly Money
dream, obsession, paxil, vanilla
I take a drug called Paxil for obsession. I missed one day and had the most obsessive dreams I could imagine. I woke up just now at 6 minutes to 6 am from an obsessive nightmare. My things were gone. All the useless things. The things I'd been collecting. I had bought a beautiful wooden chest that had a variety of drawer sizes from small to large, tall and thin. In each drawer, a collection of...
Being Happy may be even worse than depression was
This new found confidence could really backfire if I still can't figure out a way to want to do something. As I feel alone, and have built up a phobia of asking over time, as a defence mechinsm for rejection. I create my story, but shielded from te things that are less than moodless. I write my character afraid of asking, so it's an easy role to play, because I felt that anyway. Now it's a...
January 26th already.
I have been living a reasonably successlife new nlife made up almost entirly of Mondays. By that, I mean I start each new day as a Monday. A fresh start. A ctrl-alt-del of everything behind me. They're just stories -- As an interuption to my tyhought, my computer just woke up and spoke the words; "OK Google, turn on the lava lights" in my voice. JUst now, they followed up with; "Ok Google, turn...
The script of my Dream
I dream quite a lot, primarily because I tend to sleep quite a lot. I often remember them when I wake and sometimes they're worth writing down or posting to Facebook. Today I decided to blog my dream because it relates to my web site in a way. On my home site http://frogstar.com I have a number of royalty-free simple comedy scripts that seem quite popular. I released the skits to public domain...
The script of my dream
I dream quite a lot, primarily because I tend to sleep quite a lot. I often remember them when I wake and sometimes they're worth writing down or posting to Facebook. Today I decided to blog my dream because it relates to my web site in a way. On my home site http://frogstar.com I have a number of royalty-free simple comedy scripts that seem quite popular. I released the skits to public domain...
Magrathea Exists. Custom Built Universes For Sale
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Frogstar World C (The Orange Window Universe) The First Draft of tis will be amazingly different than the one I share. I exp[ect it will be good enough to be praised. ALL YOU NEED TO CHANGHE YOUR UNIVERSE IS ONE FAN TO SHARE IT WITH All you need is one fan to call your friend All you need to change your universe is a friend to be a fan of. You always wrote your one stories, even if you...
The wait
Mental health, vanilla, waiting
As I sit in the waiting room on the fifth floor of the hospital I am trying my best not to think sbiit today's session with the doctor. It's week two and we have some extra time. Last week we doesn't some if it in silence while I tried to figure out how to feel emotions. I've learned over and over that my otedic5uons never end up watching reality do tueythepretty much a waste of negative...
How I became a Sidekick
My name is Richard, and this isn't really my story, but it's such a great story, it needs to be told and since I'm the only other person on Earth that know it, the task falls to me. In a way, I feel a bit like Dr Watson, who wrote all the adventures of his best friend Sherlock Holmes, except I'm not a fictional British doctor, but a real 17-year-old kid from Waterloo. You might not have heard of...
The almost email
This is the unedited live brain transcript of an email I was going to send to the last person close to me that has never been let in on my secret life of a stoner. There is an asterisk (*) in there somewhere. That was the moment in my thpought process when I realized the edibles were kicking in and this was better siuited to my blog, and then written by the not high version of me. [brain: crap....
I need to become an other guy
lthough I sincerely have tried to stop using other people as a comparison for a normal I wish I was. Other guys can do things I can't. I have a very low threshold for negativity. I have identified that Iam capable of ignoring it. Imagine for a moment that your universe is actually making changes so I'll react. There are over 7 billion humans alive rounded down a billion or so that hide from the...
The instant gratification of — Please hold. The Instant gratification of — please hold
It'd been quite a long time since a single grouping of words, not qute a phrase had caught my attention and focus. Instant gratification... I remembered it from the past, but I'd not thought about it again in relation to myself and my new journey to either self discovery or madness. In much the same way one single person calling me OCD made me obcess about whether I was actualy obcessive AND...
I remember thye origin stories of the weirdest things
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I remember visually where I was standing when I first heard the CBC Radio announcer describing this piece of music he was about to play. It wasn't so much music like a song, but a tone. Somebody had invented, or discovered this tone that sounded like it was rising higher and higher, forever. It was a loop that tricked our ears into thinking it was forever rising, when in reality it was just...