TheBanyanTree: The Schizo Diaries, 081804

[Monique]

The following email was sent by Stew on the evening of the 18th. I called
him when I received the email, about an hour after he wrote it, and he was
doing quite well. 


Hi all. 

On the trip back, Dad had asked me if I had experienced any demons during my
stay in California, and I had indicated that I hadn't. 

I'm currently experiencing demons right now. 

They started when I was walking the dog tonight. I had an inclination that
somebody was following me, but there was nobody there. In fact there wasn't
anybody around. (Which, for 9pm, is actually a little unusual.) 

The demon(s) were telling me that I should remove my skin. Not just cutting
it like I tend to do, but to take a potato peeler and peel away the skin.
(I'm not even sure if I own a potato peeler.) 

They kept showing me images of how it would feel better (can you really
"show" a "feeling"?) if my skin was removed. 

The often-asked question is what was I doing or thinking about right before
this happened. 

I was watching TV. I was flipping back and forth between the Olympics and
Smallville (not a show I normally watch.) The last Olympic event had been
swimming (men's 200m backstroke I think).and the only thing that stands out
in my mind about that is that American Olympian just recently celebrated his
22nd or 23rd birthday. The episode of Smallville (Smallville is a TV show
about Superman [well, actually Clark Kent] as a teenager going to high
school and the mis-adventures he gets into learning about his powers)
Anyway, one of Clark's friends got mixed up with illegal street drag racing,
because it was the only thing he seemed to be good at, and it allowed him to
get out of Clark's shadow. 

So, that's the status of the demons on August 18, 2004. Whatever that
information is worth. 

Oh, and no. I did not cut, nor am I inclined too. 

Stew