A pictorial guide to the mountains of madness

[hirez]

Several times while walking through Bath over the last few weeks, I've felt the skin on my face rippling like a flag in a stiff breeze. It has taken something of a mental effort to pull my expression back into something resembling human, but should I lose concentration I can feel it peeling back to reveal the whatever-it-is beneath.

Most recently, when striding away from the fruit stall and down past the betting shop, my arms and legs joined in. It was quite a lot like I had lost my footing in this reality and was having to clamber over or through unseen obstacles from a different plane.

I became convinced that I was spidering across a not-path apparently suspended above the paving of Kingsmead Square, all limbs at impossible angles and with a face mostly made of too many eyes and teeth.

Comments

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Slipping into the other dimension? Have experienced something awfully similar and was badly frightened. Several times.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Um. 'Glad' it's not just me.

It's interesting and mildly concerning in the same way that migraine-related brain strangeness is. There's always the fear that it's going to be permanent this time.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

Was there a more normal migraine before or afterwards ?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

This thing isn't migraine-related. I'm fairly sure that it's post-viral knackeration.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

You are a Charlie Stross character, and I claim my tentacled doom.

(Dude, that doesn't sound like fun. Hope that stops happening.)

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Balls. And hugs. And ?meditation.

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

I had that sensation when I was coming off citalopram. It was on my face, and tongue, and neck. So much so that I had to keep checking my skin was on. I very much hope that it stops happening to you!