Materia Medica
Czechoslovakian dreams
1/ About 2 little creatures who were holding each other while walking through a landscape full of flowers (c1f)
2/ I was wading through water and mud to reach a patient who was being put in an ambulance. I took off my shoes in case I might damage them. (c1f)
3/ I forgot about puppies in the fridge - they nearly froze. Crying about them in the dream. (c1f)
4/ About dirt and waste, I was taking it outside, then going through and sorting it out, it was unpleasant. (c3f)
5/ A poor woman in old worn-out black trousers. I wanted to give her my old trousers but I cannot find her. A red topper, in it half torn bills, the tracing ones (black from the back side), old but not used, with torn off upper corners, therefore it cannot be used. (c4f supervisor) (English unclear)
6/ Half asleep: I saw two tiny figures (15cm) in red dresses and toppers next to the topper with the bills - probably kobolds. (c4f supervisor) (English unclear)
7/ I went through old jugs and I was thinking which to choose to finish the furnishing of my flat. I wanted to take a photograph of the rain behind the window which created an interesting pattern, there was not much light. I waited for lightning outside, I pressed the release, but the view was blocked by my husband's mother (now dead). She told me that she had spoiled my picture. Then I went into the yard to a wooden toilet, there were two toilets, next to them were dustbins. On the doorknob of one of the toilets there was fastened a yellow bicycle. I was angry and wanted to move it away. (c4f supervisor)
8/ The applications I had written nobody mailed. They were lying around in disorder on the table for a few days. In the house where I lived there was a huge mess in the corridor - thick layer of dirt and yellow dust. I asked the housekeeper to ask the tenants to clean up in front of their flats. He said it first to an old unpleasant woman. She said "I will take revenge on you all". I felt it a wrong-doing to me. The woman entered the door but there was not a flat behind it, only a steep and long staircase, leading down. In the lit air there was floating a lot of dust above the staircase, as if fog, but yellowish. (c4f supervisor)
9/ I was sitting in the corridor on the floor and protecting a poorly dressed infant with my coat against a blizzard. The child huddled to me and said that it was nice and warm there with me. (c4f supervisor)
10/ I got a big bunch of white flowers with red streaks inside the cups from my husband. Then some material for a suit, cut and lightly sewed together, light yellow (cream) colour with little red and pink flowers. Then white handkerchiefs with a red embroidery. (c4f supervisor)
11/ Whenever I had a bad thought about God my knickers dropped down to my knees (among other people). I forbade myself to think bad thoughts about him, but I did it again twice with the same result. (c4f supervisor)
12/ I was with my family at a newly bought cottage, feeling calm, being at ease, sunny. Then it turned out that we owned the cottage with some people we didn't know; a wax man without teeth appeared. Then conflicts and arguments began because of a wrongly parked car and a borrowed lawn mower. Pleasant, calm atmosphere changed into tension, arguments. (c5m)
13/ With a schoolmate that I haven't met for about 20 years; we were getting ready for a trip. I was looking forward to it - we were planning things. Suddenly a child came to us who turned out to be his illegitimate child and wanted to be looked after by him. My schoolmate took the child and put it in the bus but where the child's mother was sitting (also a schoolmate); she wanted to go somewhere. He gave her the child because he didn't have time to look after it. She didn't contradict, but it turned out that his wife was on the bus as well. Again, scenes changed to arguments and blaming each other, a quick shift from calm and ease to arguments. (c5m)
14/ Sitting at an English lesson - a native speaker teaching. I understood half of what he was saying. Atmosphere calm and pleasant. (c5m)
15/ I was riding a bike. I remember that I was watching the rear wheel of somebody in front of me, we were going quickly, as if we were racing. Then suddenly the road split, several people in front didn't cope with it, some of them fell. I finished the race on my skis. At the end we were going with one of my colleagues with whom I used to go cross-country skiing. (c5m)
16/ We were going on the staircase, which was held by a wide pipe through which waste was falling down. Then I woke up and thought: waste, dirt, hyoscaymus, I will remember that. (c6f)
17/ Pleasant despite seemingly unpleasant episodes. Skiing when my ski tore out a piece of vein from my shoulder. My colleague sewed in a new piece. It was connected above the skin and I was moving around with it without any pain or feeling of injury. A patient went for a breast ablation to another town, the following morning at home it fell apart. I was examining the wound - a very realistic view, but no feeling of disgust, only feeling sorry. I wanted to arrange surgery in a town in southern Bohemia, but finally we agreed that it would be better to do it in our hospital. (c6f)
18/ At an office with my sister - practising. There was a daughter of another nurse Lenka, who is about 8 years old. We were looking after her - she was wild. We were handing out contraceptive pills. Woke up when Lenka was getting more and more naughty - she was running about the rooms. (c6f)
19/Going by car with a friend - he driving, I in back. Car stops and he turns and wants to kiss me. The moment he does he becomes totally paralysed, faints and from the front seat he slops out through the open door. As his head is sliding down the seat, his face, especially the lips, are changing, protruding forward. I was sitting at the back and was not emotionally touched either by the kiss or by the whole scene, it was as if I was just observing everything from a distance. (c7f)
20/ I am in a shop where there are three dresses displayed, their colours are light blue, light orange and white. I tried the white one on. I was surprised that she gave me this colour when I had light orange shoes. The dress consisted of two parts. When I put it on, it started to shrink and I had it on me like a dancer from the Pacific - a short skirt and a top just under the breasts. In the morning I told the dream to my friends - I didn't open my eyes so that I would keep the image in my mind. When I opened them I was taken aback: one of the friends in front of me was wearing a light orange blouse made of lace, exactly the same colour and material as in the dream. She wore light blue trousers and white shoes. (c7f)
21/ I am walking around the room which looks like one in an old cottage - two little rooms and a door opposite the windows. I go from the windows to the door and back - it is quite dark there, so that I don't see the furniture well. On the window sill there is some kind of paper which I am supposed to sign - then I will be married. But I don't know whether I should sign it. Inside I know that I shouldn't, but it is already agreed. Feeling of being forced. (c7f)
22/ In the middle of the night on a journey to Brno. I don't know if I am going to have a place to sleep but I don't mind. Suddenly I find myself at a famous painter's who doesn't live at Brno. She is decorating a ceiling in a nice white colour, under the white a blue pattern shows through. It is very nice, ornaments, plastic pattern; the view of the ceiling is beautiful. (c8f)
23/ I have a task to choose a present for the fighter against fascists. In the shop a shop-assistant is showing a net to me, but the net gets on his head and for a while he is hanging like a hangman. But he gets out of it. Then I am choosing a dark blue case, velvet inside, probably there are some medals inside. (c8f)
24/ I am coming from work. A doctor appears that I know. She is 52 and in her 6th month of pregnancy, she has two adult sons already. They have conceived a child in their old age for pleasure, it suits her. There is a mess at work. I go outside: there is nice white snow. (C8f)
25/ I am on a sandy beach, there are two huge cake corpuses of 1,5 m in diameter and a huge bowl with yellow cream. I divided the cream into two parts with a big 1 metre long knife. I meant to make the other part of the cream brown and then put the two cake corpuses together. (C9f)
26/ About dolphins, lying in a shop on the counter. Even though I have been vegetarian a long time, I wanted to buy a dolphin to eat, without any guilt. I took a big knife and started to slice it crosswise. (c10f)
27/ We are going with my 12 yr old son by underground, one carriage is armoured and the train goes smoothly out into the open landscape where everything is fresh, everything is growing and blooming. There is another train coming towards us, it seems that the trains are going to crash, I want to jump out with my son, but at the last moment the trains avoid each other and I wake up with relief. (c11f)
28/ I am expecting the arrival of my 7 year old son. The room I am waiting in is small, dark (as if an old-fashioned inn). From various corners I can hear giggling, which I don't understand. When I ask about it I get a mocking answer "look forward to it, you'll see....". My son enters the room. It is a shock: he is the same size, but he has a body of a builder or a miner - black, all muscles. He is looking at me with big eyes and I feel aversion, love, guilt. Feeling: the situation forces me to allow a small child to work. (c12f)
29/ A group of people is standing on the staircase leading down a deep black cellar. They agree that it is necessary to tell one person that he is doing something bad, leading a bad life. The stairs end with around iron gate which is rimmed by a white strip (as in a barracks). The man is coming, other people disappear and I stay alone. I know that I have to tell it to him. I find myself on a slide, leading downwards. It's big, shiny, wooden, I am sliding very quickly, whooping like a child. I jump right in front of him and tell it to him. I turn my back at the slide, it seems dangerous. (c12f)
30/ While I am looking for my youngest son I can see a strange small child walking in the middle of the road full of traffic. Danger. A stranger saves the child. The parents of the child are coming, they are drunk. The stranger has a white plastic bag and in it very big and thick cigarette ashes and remains of black rollers. I am scolding the parents because of the child. They answer that their hands are full. I tell them "hands full of such rubbish, couldn't you throw it away!?" and he pointed to the edge of the road where there are meadow flowers, heath and about 5 pieces of various minerals - black, shiny, beautiful. A bit like coal and gold. (c12f)
31/ I am a member of a theatre group, a newcomer. We are going to play to a different town. I am wearing peculiar lacquer-green dress (stiff - probably starched). It is heavy like a stone. I don't know what I am going to play. I have chosen a small role of a waitress who is reading a menu from a "green tree" (in Czech the word menu means leaf). I have stage fright, even though I know that if they forget about me or leave me out nothing happens. (c12f)
32/ Meeting with Ondra's father (I am divorced, Ondra is my son from the first marriage) and his wife. They tell me that Ondra is 16 this year and he is coming to the Czech Republic for a holiday. I don't understand it. We are sitting around the fire, everybody has been sleeping already. I am putting a pile of stones into a column - they fit beautifully into each other. It is snowing and gradually the snow covers everything up. All wake up. I have noticed that Petr's (Ondra's father) wife looks like his mother. I can see her varicose veins. We are leaving. I go first through the snow, Petr with his wife follow me. They walk into black mud, they want to go straight ahead, don't want to obey me when I say they have to avoid it. They do not listen to me and disappear in the mud. We try to save them. We feel sorry for them. (c12f)
33/ I was thinking about the dream all day. I suffered a lot, anguish, as if I should split up, crack. I was in the hospital: my family and a lot of doctors were there. It lasted a long time - I was awake, but not able to do anything. All the time I was experiencing a terrible pain - torment. Towards morning all the people left to agree on what to do with me. I was totally alone in the dark of some room which looked like a grotto (den). Suddenly it started to twitch in my right leg, in the knee. Two holes appeared and from these tapeworms (in appearance) started to crawl out. They were plastic - I felt extreme relief. One was white and the other black. From each hole about 5 articulations were sticking out. Then the doctors came back with the family. They detested the tapeworms. I was calming them down saying everything was all right, that they only had to be pulled out. (c12f)
34/ I was passing a table: there was a piece of paper on it with the name of the remedy on it. I was curious but at the same time didn't want to look - then I saw the name - Albumin. (c13f)
35/ I was in the house. Next to me there were two little boys sitting holding hands - I know the boys. One was saying that he liked fat meat, the other that he didn't. They started to cry because for some reason they had to come to an agreement about it. I felt under terrible pressure from them, so that I couldn't stand it any more. I pushed away their hands and they ran away. I said they had to come to an agreement without me. I ran away to the garden where I was looking for an armchair where I would sit and relax. (c35f)
Welsh dreams
36/ Dream of a large flat square scale rather like a vet's scales only smaller with a message in blue neon light travelling from right to left across the front edge of scale: reading check your weight before stepping on. Woke with feeling of heat in my feet and shivering over most of my body. Then felt again I was lying at an angle, this time with my feet raised and head lower - I was awake - lasted about 5 mins. Everything felt a bit upside down - out of balance - ie turned around. It's as if the balance is wrong, all to do with balance. (w1f)
37/ About children - almost teenagers - a large group waiting - getting restless, out of hand. They decided they wanted to go outside - I say you can't, we won't know where you are. However then hit on the idea of putting out cushions for them to sit on and then they all settled down; before this they were getting out of hand, hyperactive. To me it all seemed to be about boundaries, you have to put up a boundary otherwise people won't know - ie regulation will result in safety. They needed to know how far they could go; putting down the cushions meant they could calm down. (w1f)
38/ All of a sudden a voice said "if you take two words away it's out of balance and you have to put two back. This seems to be the theme of whole proving for me: it's all to do with balance. (w1f)
39/ Felt as though I dreamed all night. Nothing spectacular but many people from my past appeared in the dreams - especially from past working life. The themes were jumbled (w2f)
40/ In a second seemingly very long dream. Again peopled with individuals from my past. A school friend who I have not seen for 2 decades was my "friend" in the dream and my first husband's step brother (not seen for 15 years) was her mother in the dream. My friend and I were sharing books and information and staying at a large mansion belonging to her "mother". We were getting on well to begin with but my relationship with her "mother" began to deteriorate. The house began to fill with other people and there seemed to be a sort of house part in progress. There were also builders working on it supervised by my friend Mark (presently working on my house in reality). The last scene in the dream was of me packing all my things and preparing for a hasty departure as I could not bare the relationship with my friends "mother" anymore. It was an emotional and difficult scene but I was adamant that I must leave as the situation was untenable. (w2f)
41/ Deep sleep, several dreams. One in particular involved a strange "sculpture"/object. It was like a 3-D oblong matrix which pulled apart and then could be fitted together perfectly to make a seamless grey metallic structure of great beauty and symmetry. The nature of this thing is so far out of my usual experience that I have not adequate words to describe it - especially the 3-D aspect of it - it was almost "Escher-like" in its impossibility. I has the impression that the structure had been made for me but the reasons why were not revealed. (w2f)
42/ A second dream again involved figures from my past - university life, old neighbours etc. It was rather like a series of tableaux, not having any coherent theme, but bringing in these figures in various contexts and situations (ie driving in a car, in a lounge, in someone's house etc). (w2f)
43/ Very heavy dream! Involved me leaving a "meeting" with people I knew and coming out into the road where I saw a "chrysalis" type structure (but round rather than the usual shape) upon the ground. As I watched it, it turned into a flat golden fish and then back into a chrysalis. I picked it up in my left had and as I held it, it began to change again only this time into a snake. The snake bit the centre of my left palm and it was very painful. After the biting some period of time must have passed and when I looked down at my naked body I was covered with a rash of tiny silver blisters in an amazingly beautiful pattern. However I began to feel ill and my partner took me to some institution (hospital, surgery?). I pointed out to the man some of the blisters on the back of my left arm - they had become very large and full of pus. As he looked at them, some burst and the fluid in them touched him. The last scene in the dream before the clock went off was of Toby and I in this institutional room and as he turned away from me I could seen that down his back was a drift and patterning of tiny silver blisters. (w2f)
44/ Dream about inheriting a house that had belonged to an old man. Inside the house was very dirty and dilapidated. There were 20-30 milk bottles (empty) standing around with other detritus upon the cluttered tables and what seemed like work benches. The place was very dark and the window small. It was not a very nice place but somehow I felt at home there - or at least comfortable being there. Did not wake with any other specific details. (w2f)
45/ Mixed dreams - no major themes, some family in dream but also quite a few strangers. One dream about skin reactions to essential oils (w2f)
46/ Lots of dreams, but fragmented. One in particular remembered. I consulted someone about my itchy skin and was told to take urtica urens! The words "urtica urens" were repeated over and over again for a period of time. (w2F) (NB prover is a herbalist)
47/ At a swimming party on the Menai Straits, but there were cliffs there; the tide was strong, going out. There were lots of people there swimming. My mother was there, and she pointed out that the water was filthy (bits of shit on surface). I dived in to water. People started shouting and there was a sense of danger. I was being dragged towards something by the current (?) at great speed. But then managed to disentangle myself and swim on. I was quite unconcerned! (w4f)
48/ Lengthy, very involved dream. Involved taking a new car to Bangor from the country with some other people. We wanted to go along a very small country lane. There was new surfacing going on but this was very crude and rough - I kept asking myself "why are we doing this?". We ended up walking the last part - I went on my own for part of the way, along a stream bed. This entered a cave, so I followed it and went underground. I eventually came to another stream running at right angles to mine. This one was much larger and faster than the one I was on and would have been very dangerous to cross - it entered another tunnel on my right and disappeared in tot he depths of the mountain. I was frightened and had to retreat. (w5m)
49/ Dream concerned unblocking ditches to allow water to flow. A comment was made by someone to me "my family always keeps things on the level". (w5m)
50/ Another was involved in a javelin throwing competition - everyone had three goes - I won my event. The odd thing about the javelin area was that it was crooked. (w5m)
51/ Vague, but along the lines of a car race up-hill! Lots of people helping the race competitors (w6m)
52/ Vague, but to do with a medical room. (w6m)
53/ Skiing: lots of snow and very pleasant. (w6m)
54/ Another pleasant dream: on holiday with the family - lots of fun, laughter and sun. (w6m)
55/ Being taught to paint on glass - a good laugh. (w6m)
56/ Another nice dream: all to do with conservation and renovation of an old building. (w6m)
57/ Dreamt of a lot of people. Kept seeing a guy with long hair - about 40; I knew him as a child. In the dream I could see him as a younger person. But when I awoke this person didn't exist - ie the person didn't exist in real life, not someone she knew. I remember saying to someone "do you recognise him?". Summary: dream is of a face from the past but that that person does not exist. (w7f)
58/ With relations, including Cyril (= father in law). Cyril was as he is now, but there was also another Cyril. I was saying to someone "how can there be two Cyrils?" Then someone said "if you look closely you will see they are the same" (even though apparently different). (w7f)
59/ I was inside the booth you pay at in a garage. 3 men were trying to get inside to hurt me - there were also other people in the booth. We were pushing against the door to keep them out - they were pushing to get in. I had to use my penknife to try and keep them away; gingerly stabbing them; we managed to lock the door. They tried the windows and then seemed to go away. We slept for a bit and then woke - beginning to get light; suddenly they were back and were gong to cover the openings / vents etc to cut off the air supply. (w8f)
60/ Violent and fearful dream; my head being cut by something; I tried to get help, a brain scan etc in a hospital - but they didn't seem to be concerned, said I would have to wait - only I was aware of how serious it was. But gradually felt the injury improving, repairing itself. (w8f)
61/ A strange dream - acting in a play; I was locked in a room and someone set fire to it and I couldn't get out. (w9m)
62/ Trying to arrange the layout for a document. Trying to fit a picture on a page with text but the picture won't fit on. Feeling anxious and disappointed when I wake up. (w10f)
63/ Dream of keeping notes on the proving - I have to write neatly and put labels on the notes. My notes are very scruffy. I tear pages out of the notebook but it looks a mess. I look in a bag for a new notebook but although the ones I open look unused they actually contain other people's notes. I don't want to read them as they might be embarrassing. I can't work out why I've got hold of these - was I given them to look after at the end of the session? (w10f)
64/ I'm writing my remedy notes on a creamy deep piled carpet in blue biro. The writing is full of loops. The carpet is by the large window in my mum's sitting room. The writing takes up from one end of the wall to the other. I'm worried about what she'll say if she finds out but carry on writing. (w10f)
65/ In a department store with sister, looking in a glass case of expensive very fine suede shoes. The shoes are very expensive - £160 is written on a ticket. I think to self: why can't she make do with a pair for £20? (w10f)
66/ In an old fashioned train going down a steep hill. The train stops on a bridge going over the valley. Me + 2 others leave the train to go and get help. We use wheel chairs to ride down the hillside on a zigzag path. I have problems ?? a wheel chair the right size but eventually I ?? one and set off. The next part is hazy - we manage to save the train and there is a reunion in a kitchen. (w10f)
67/ I went to my room, I felt sad, that I don't belong anywhere (os), not even to the nature outside. I feel uprooted, as if from a different world, from a different time (ns). I don't feel like doing anything, nothing is worth it. But I am willing to yield to anything and anybody. Feeling of total resignation and sadness (ns). (c4f)
68/ Sitting at the fire in a good mood, remembered how I tried to start a fire at the age of 12 and burnt my eye lashes and brows. Nostalgic mood when singing, remembered romantic loves from the age of 15 to 20, when it was not about sex but romanticism, touches, songs, poetry. Tendency to cover the ears. Wanted to say all this to my neighbour, but it seemed to me that I saw an empty seat, despite the fact I realised she was sitting there. (c9f)
69/ When going to the shop: asking people, including K, what they wanted me to buy. Bought ice cream for many people, but forgot biscuits for K. K came late to the lecture; I started to feel very ashamed for my behaviour, strong feelings of guilt. I wanted to explain and apologise. (c9f)
70/ Feeling isolated all day long. Words and questions come at me as violation. (c13f)
71/ A feeling that my body had disappeared - very light - did not want to speak - feeling that I would not be able to. Wanted to get up and help with tea but felt unable to - body too heavy. (w1f)
72/ Feeling I was lying in bed at an angle across the bed (w1f)
73/ When at K's front door - I got the end of the words mixed up - ie transposed from one end to the other. Feel all symptoms - physical, visual and dreams - amount to the same thing - ie everything is out of balance. (w1f)
74/ While driving car, felt very aware that I was gripping the steering wheel hard - body and legs felt very rigid - was aware of the acute angle of my legs to my body (lasted about 20 mins). Gripping the steering wheel too tightly was to do with the "angle of the body". (w1f)
75/ Driving along - saw beer can in middle of road - wanted to pick it up so that the oncoming cars would not run over it and hurt it; also the same feeling about a piece of rope. I felt as if they had feelings - I experience this with birds and animals all the time but never with objects. (w1f)
76/ Sensation of aggressive impatience came in waves - became first response to stimuli. An intolerant mood quite out of character. (w3m)
77/ Body felt as if much taller than usual, along way from the ground. Feeling of towering over people and things (ns). (w4f)
78/ Feeling of oppression; had to go outside and be in the open, gaze at the garden; needed space, felt closed in, restless.
79/ Urge to do violence with a knife (ns). Was washing up, partner was on phone. Picked up the bread knife and in a flash had this urge to cut his throat. Had a vision of doing it and what it would look like. Quite unnerving. (w4f)
80/ (Just on rising, 0800). A prolonged waking up. Just want to sit and stare, no wish to go to work. This makes me thing of old age. An indifference to everything, a blank staring into space. Also physically, a sort of numbness, heaviness. No enthusiasm for work, not exactly indolence, more an indifference to it. This persisted throughout day. Wonder perhaps if stillness is not the best word, lack of activity. Not an unpleasant space to be in. (2200) Tired - sitting and couldn't really be bothered to go upstairs and have a shower. (w5m)
81/ Have been talked into going rock climbing tomorrow - something that would never cross my mind, although it is not happening against my will! (w5m)
82/ Very willing to argue, but when I became angry I said things from an emotional rather than a logical background. (w6m)
83/ Picked up a hitch-hiker - can't believe I did this - first time for everything! (w6m)
84/ Went climbing pm - not happy about it. Felt quite clear about what I was doing but made a lot of uncharacteristic mistakes - eg climbing in the rain, not doing the harness up. Couldn't see why it happened, explain it. (w9m)
Head Sight and eyes Hearing and ears Limbs in general Skin
a/ pain, pressive, vertex: w8f, w10f.
a/ "foggy" vision: c2fx2; c11f; c13f(dimmed)
b/ sharper vision: c3f: (close up); c5m.
c/ pain behind eyes as though nettles being dragged along: w9m
d/ stinging pain in eyes: w6m (prover attributes this to dryness - also skin - almost as if dehydrated.
a/distorted
c6f: as if hearing different words to the ones said
c13f: voices in the dining hall merge together into humming, from the humming some voices come out very clearly. The voice of my friend next to me comes from a bigger distance than the voices farther away. The voices sound as if I was closed in a soft space and they were softly filling the space.
a/ as if the knuckles and back of the left hand would explode: c12f
a/ Amelioration of existing stitching/stinging pains:
c1f: in legs.
w12m: possible prophylaxis effect for one prover.
w9m: midge bites that have been itching all day stop (immediately after remedy) - this persisted until day 5.
b/ Appearance of new stinging pains: c1f.
c/ Appearance of an itching sensation
c9f: itching on the left thigh, then to right, tendency to scratch for a long time.
c11f: itching eruption (small papulae) right lower abdomen.
w6m: itching left lower calf, quickly became bloodshot - after 1 min another smaller area started higher up calf. Three weeks later more general itching: elbows, thighs, backs of hands feet and back.
w9m: itching all over body (day 6 to 10).
w2f: day 13: skin itching throughout day, esp legs and arms, < night, no obvious cause. persists to day 17 (records stop).
d/ Formication
c6f:On chin and lips (os from 15 yrs); left half of jaw, mouth and left shoulder and shoulder blade (day 3). In left hand (day 4); also from left shoulder blade to arm; more general formication of hands over several days.
c10f (supervisor): formication of half of forehead.
c12f: whole of left side of body formicating - also sensation of contraction.
e/ persistence of old nettle stings: w12m
f/ old bite re-started to sting: w3m
g/ skin becoming bloodshot: w6m