Bed sheets and Vampires

Here are a couple of very random thoughts:

A few nights ago I was tossing and turning in bed and having an all around difficult time falling asleep. Unfortunately it was almost literally an all around time. Covers and pillows were all over the place as I tried to find a position in which I could fall asleep. As is usually the case in said situation, my mind was pondering many a thought when I struck upon one that I thought was worthy of sharing. The vast majority of the aforementioned thoughts are not worth sharing and are usually disjointed half thoughts that only a pot head or philosopher (did I just repeat myself?) would find of any interest. This idea, however, may or may not be worth something.

It started by my thinking, "What will my future wife think when I have a night like this? I'm liable to be kicked out of bed and sentenced to the couch." At which point I began to ponder what kind of couch I should buy for this future inevitability when I decided instead to think of ways to prevent the problem in the first place, which is to say the bed place, that being the first place that many of us think to visit. So it was that I conceived of a new type of sheet for Queen and King sized beds. It would be just like a normal set of sheets, with a fitted sheet on bottom and a top sheet, appropriately enough, on top. However, in addition to the norm, we would add a panel running perpendicular to the two planes down the middle of the bed, bisecting the whole into two equal halves. The two halves would preferably be the left and the right as opposed to the foot and the head, or bottom and top if you prefer; as the left and right sides of the bed are the typical sleeping arrangement for couples. Now this center panel shan't run the entire length of the bed from top to bottom as this would create an undesirable separation, well hopefully undesirable. Instead the panel will start at the foot of the bed and stretch about half way to three quarters of the way to the head of the bed. This will allow for canoodling while preventing the legs from kicking ones partner in sleep or during a tossing and turning episode. Also, I believe this could have the added benefit of preventing one person from stealing all of the covers during the night as the panel will only allow them to pull the covers so far.

I think there are some drawbacks to this arrangement, but since I have yet to experiment with this conceptual sheet design, I can't say for certain how it will work out. It's probably not a good idea to implement this design in a honeymoon suite for instance, but perhaps it might help a couple a little ways into the arrangement. Like I said, just a random thought, and one in which I lack experience, so hopefully I don't sound too naive.

The second thought that I would like to share is something I thought of today in church. While I was sitting in Sunday School, a fellow by the name of Oliver was making a point about something or other during the course of which he noted that the logo for Bacardi is a vampire bat. This got me to thinking about vampires and I suddenly realized what an amazing symbol vampires are, especially because they have been somewhat glamorized of late. I began by thinking, what is a vampire? A vampire is an undead creature that sucks the blood of normal folk in order to survive, but the blood doesn't give them life it merely sustains them for a short time, with a secondary byproduct being either the death of their victim or the victims conversion into a fellow vampire. I began to think how this represents people who search for happiness and satisfaction in unrighteousness. Having lost the life that comes from God they are forced to prey upon others who are still alive in Christ for temporary satisfaction, either to destroy them or to make them miserable like themselves. I think it's similar to the tales in the movies that just as the vampires consider themselves better off as they are, so to people who are without the light of Christ in their lives think that they are doing the "living" a favor by changing them. This is not to malign non-Christians in any way or to imply that they're vampires. I'm merely using the phrase "the light of Christ" to mean any person who seeks after righteousness, it being somewhat akin to following one's conscience though a bit deeper. If you would like to know more on the subject of the meaning of "the light of Christ" please feel free to so indicate in the comment section below. Speaking of light, I think this lends itself again to the simile. Vampire's by definition can't abide the light. Likewise those that work in darkness shun the light of truth and shrink from it. The light of truth burns them and destroys their craft. I think the persecution and criticism by these people is somewhat akin to vampires trying to suck the life out of their victims. If you allow yourself to be enticed and listen to them, then you give them a chance to suck the spiritual life out of you. At that point, you die spiritually and become even as they are.

I think one of the main differences with this symbolism is that, unlike vampires, people can be reborn spiritually, or in other words they don't have to remain like vampires but can be redeemed. Unlike the movies where the only way to stop the vampires is to destroy them, we are able to put an end to the threat by helping them return to life and true joy. I can only imagine that this symbolism wasn't arrived at randomly, but that it was part of the original idea, whether intentional or not.