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[hummingwolf]

Last night I had this dream where a bunch of people who played werewolves on a TV show with a cast of hundreds were detained and questioned because the government had found out that someone had brought flax seeds into the building. I was the person who had eaten the seeds, but naturally I didn't want to admit that as I had no wish to be jailed for my food choices, so I went to the bathroom and spent a long time brushing the last bits of the seeds from my teeth. When I came out, I learned that all of the werewolves had been allowed to leave, which relieved me greatly even though the police had put up fliers everywhere detailing the personality profile of the kind of person who'd be dealing with weird substances like flax seeds (it was a cute little profile, looking rather a lot like an especially detailed Quizilla quiz, and pretty much off-target). I caught up with the other actors and showed off the fact that, unlike them, I actually was a werewolf and could shapeshift at will. It was cool.

After I woke up, I went to see a psychiatrist.

My banana yogurt this evening has flax seeds in it.

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Just. . .

[mystified13.livejournal.com]

out of curiousity, what are flax seeds? Are they the little seeds in bananas?

Re: Just. . .

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

No, no, they're not related to bananas at all. Flax is an herb grown for both its fiber (the kind used in textiles, not the kind you eat) and its seeds. Flax seeds, often found in the spice sections of Latin groceries (or in supermarkets with good selections of international foods), are a good source of fiber (the kind you eat, this time!) and EFAs (essential fatty acids). Health food stores these days are selling supplements made with flax seed oil, though I'm not sure how much of a panacea they're supposed to be. Personally, I just like to add the seeds to my yogurt to give it some texture.

There! Did that tell you more than you needed to know? ;-)

Re: Just. . .

[mystified13.livejournal.com]

A nice explanation, thank you!

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Those dangerous flax seeds! They must be stopped!

No really.

Darn things are everywhere now. My aunt has like 10 products with flaxseed in. That's enough fiber people!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

10 products? Wow. Where does she get such things? The only packaged product I've seen with the seeds in it is a cereal with some name like "Uncle Sam's." What else has those scary seeds these days?

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

She has several types of bread, flaxseed oil and some other granola/flaxseedy type stuff.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, I have bought bread with flax seeds in it. Good stuff.

[meretia]

If I were being especially cynical, I'd say that I wouldn't be too surprised if something like that happened in the near future.

But I'm not, so serves dream-you right! What were you doing eating a Commie--er, terrorist, I mean terrorist--food like that?

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I suspect that dream was my brain's way of reminding me to change my voter registration. Or possibly my brain was still being affected by the full moon and wanted to get some werewolf action in there.

[nellorat.livejournal.com]

And your psychiatrist is a werewolf, right?

I'm up too damn early today to go see my psychiatrist, who neither is a werewolf nor eats/sells flax seeds, but does prescribe meds that keep me functioning well.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Hah! Actually, she isn't really my psychiatrist--the first visit at the clinic consisted mostly of filling out paperwork and talking to a psychiatrist about why you're there and what they can do to help you. I should be getting a phone call next week assigning me to a regular therapist (not a psychiatrist). We'll see how that works out.