Day 8

Up at 5:30. That's ok I went to bed at 10:30 so I got my usual 7 hours. I was woken by the fact that I had dreamed I was making a Sunday roast dinner for my brother and I had dished it up. I was about to tuck in and I woke up. After not eating for a week and the fact that they actually can't eat anything I can imagine some people being brought to tears by that. Even if I did cave in I still couldn't eat that roast, that's the trickiest thing about fasting. Once ones digestive juices have stopped you can't just eat anything. One has to slowly tease the digestive juices into flowing again by a careful regimen of ingesting things that slowly bring those juices back.
Making food today was tough. It all looks ten times more tasty.  It's almost come to the point of food worship. I made a bagel for Ruby and it took on an almost religious iconic significance, like a halo.
When we got back from today's adventure assault course  I flaked out and slept for an hour. I keep getting cold extremities even in this sunny weather, all normal fasting side effects. I feel soooo hungry today.
I stopped having fruit juice today as it is just keeping my digestive juices going. After a few days on just water my hunger usually will die down. I pray.

One thing that happened in the night that is worth mentioning is that I dreamed I was watching Robert Johnson the blues singer. There are no films of RJ and, like many blues based musicians I have a deep reverence for this man's work. It was kind of like watching a You Tube film but in 3D and just like real life. He was stood in front of a desert backdrop. It was an amazing performance of about 25 minutes. He has a shaved head and he was wearing sunglasses. He was putting his whole soul into it, but effortlessly. He was sweating and moaning and hollering. I was thinking this is so real, more than real, it must be from the akashic records or something. Then I thought I bet Billy Gibbons would love this. I feel very lucky. I actually saw my ultimate guitar hero last night. Helping Warchild and getting my body in shape is payment enough for the fast for me, but being able to see Robert Johnson play is a big bonus.