{"id":999,"date":"2016-10-03T14:27:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T18:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/?p=999"},"modified":"2016-10-03T14:29:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T18:29:14","slug":"how-to-stop-a-nightmare-dead-in-its-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/2016\/10\/how-to-stop-a-nightmare-dead-in-its-tracks.html","title":{"rendered":"How to stop a nightmare dead in its tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got a flu shot a<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1000 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/clock-1673583_1280-300x300.png\" alt=\"clock-1673583_1280\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/clock-1673583_1280-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/clock-1673583_1280-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/clock-1673583_1280-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/clock-1673583_1280-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/clock-1673583_1280-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/clock-1673583_1280-200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/clock-1673583_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/> month ago, which means that the dozen-or-so flu symptoms I\u2019ve been laid out with this week aren\u2019t flu, so hurray for that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe cocktail of fever, wheezing, aches and Nyquil has given me some doozies of nightmares like you might expect from a child first encountering <em>Doctor Who<\/em>: aliens, exploding planets, etc.\u00a0 Really not the kind of dreaming I\u2019m used to.<\/p>\n<p>Then, last night, in the middle of one of these nightmares, I found myself wondering if I could somehow bring down the anxiety level by scoring it with soothing music.\u00a0 I made up some overlapping, descending arpeggios in various tempi to accompany my latest cosmic cataclysm, starting with a harp, then joined by glockenspiel, vibraphone and piano.\u00a0 Soon the nightmare was gone, and I was left with a peaceful shimmer.<\/p>\n<p>Would be great if I could get this to work on a regular basis.\u00a0 And who knows, maybe a patent?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a flu shot a month ago, which means that the dozen-or-so flu symptoms I\u2019ve been laid out with this week aren\u2019t flu, so hurray for that. &nbsp; The cocktail of fever, wheezing, aches and Nyquil has given me some doozies of nightmares like you might expect from a child first encountering Doctor Who: aliens, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/curves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}