15 powers that came to me late at night

1. open up your skull and let your brain come out and glow with the light and heat of the sun.

2. turn drops of blood into swords.

3. when you speak your words become stairs, if you climb them far enough you end up in the place you described.

4. exactly at midnight, the rest of the world freezes and you can wander around and do whatever you like for an hour.

5. put your hand on someone's shoulder to walk them around like a puppet.

6. taste the history of things you eat in exquisite detail.

7. your tongue is sharp. If you cut someone with it they'll believe one thing you tell them, but they'll also probably remember that you went up to them and stabbed them with your tongue. subtler if you do it while you kiss them.

8. your shadow comes to life and strangles people who step on it.

9. if you eat a book and concentrate very hard on not throwing up, nobody can remember any of the information inside. when you lose focus you puke your guts out and people remember again.

10. fold paper animals so intricate that they are inhabited by real actual angels. If one gets smushed everyone responsible turns into salt.

11. your hands are replaced with porcelain doll hands that have retractable buzzsaws inside.

12. if you move in the direction opposite the earth's rotation you go back in time. If you move alongside it you go forward.

13. if you squint at someone with one eye you can dream of what their reign would have been like if they were a roman emperor.

14. when you speak or write it's in a different language every time and only you and the person you're addressing can understand it.

15. if you play charades with someone and act out their mannerisms, and they correctly guess that they're the thing you're miming, you can kill them and nobody will do anything about it.

after that was something about toy snakes, but before it coalesced into anything I fell asleep and knew no more.