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My brain plays tricks on me.
Feb. 1st, 2005 07:12 amWhen I get insufficient sleep, my brain has long been prone to play peculiar tricks on me in order to make sure I get some more. Two of its favorites:
1) I wake up, check my clock or watch, see that I have some more time available, and go back to sleep. This is great, except for the part where, despite waking up, I haven't ever opened my eyes the entire time. In a particular state of serious sleepiness, I become convinced that I can see through my eyelids. What I "see" of the room is exquisitely accurate to the actual surroundings, as long as nothing has changed in my sleep... except that (being the sort of thing that changes in my sleep) the clock/watch readings I get through my eyelids are not terribly accurate.
2) I am going to get up, and get up soon, except that I have to finish the dream first. I have to hit "snooze" until the dream is over because the dream is very important. Lives hang in the balance and I must finish this dream first. The dream in question can stretch out for an hour or two before the subconscious decides I have had enough and allows me to recover into dazed wakefulness.
Today was a weird one, though, because it wasn't "useful" in the sense of the others -- it did not directly induce me to get additional sleep. With the same vividness as "I can see through my closed eyelids", I dreamed that I got up and checked my LJ and saw four comments on a recent post. I read the comments. Then the alarm went off and I woke up, thinking, "Wow, that was weird." Then I had to get up to see if the prophecy had been at all accurate. (It hadn't.)
I'm hoping this isn't going to be a trend.
1) I wake up, check my clock or watch, see that I have some more time available, and go back to sleep. This is great, except for the part where, despite waking up, I haven't ever opened my eyes the entire time. In a particular state of serious sleepiness, I become convinced that I can see through my eyelids. What I "see" of the room is exquisitely accurate to the actual surroundings, as long as nothing has changed in my sleep... except that (being the sort of thing that changes in my sleep) the clock/watch readings I get through my eyelids are not terribly accurate.
2) I am going to get up, and get up soon, except that I have to finish the dream first. I have to hit "snooze" until the dream is over because the dream is very important. Lives hang in the balance and I must finish this dream first. The dream in question can stretch out for an hour or two before the subconscious decides I have had enough and allows me to recover into dazed wakefulness.
Today was a weird one, though, because it wasn't "useful" in the sense of the others -- it did not directly induce me to get additional sleep. With the same vividness as "I can see through my closed eyelids", I dreamed that I got up and checked my LJ and saw four comments on a recent post. I read the comments. Then the alarm went off and I woke up, thinking, "Wow, that was weird." Then I had to get up to see if the prophecy had been at all accurate. (It hadn't.)
I'm hoping this isn't going to be a trend.
