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02/28/2006 Archived Entry: "Jo Walton: Dream or Reality?"

Author Jo Walton (her books), papersky on LiveJournal, found herself sitting in a Chinese restaurant with no idea how she go there. Was she dreaming, or was it real? "When I'm dreaming and I suspect it's a dream, I try running through the events of the day so far, because if it's a dream, I'll go back to earlier events, thus proving it's a dream. This has served me very well on the couple of real occasions I've thought something might be a dream, and also in dreams. This time it didn't work. There were no events leading to me being there -- if I was there, which I wasn't at all sure about. I'd never been there before. I could tell where it was because I could see the corner out of the window, Ste Catherine and St Matthieu. Down by Guy."

It turned out that it was really happening, but she couldn't remember how she got there because she'd slipped on the ice and hit her head. After much pressure from her readers, she did go to the doc and get her head checked out, and she's fine with residual headache.

(tags: JoWalton, Bluejo, concussion)