A Bit of Randomness
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. --Diane Arbus
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Oddity
So last night in the midst of a dream, I realize that it's being heavily influenced by a radio station that I listen to frequently - I'm hearing conversations between DJs, Call letters...lots of detail. I start to wake up a bit because the music in my dream is starting to *become* my dream.
And I realize my clock radio is on. I come mostly awake, thinking that I somehow stupidly set my alarm for 2:00am. But I can't figure out how to turn it off. I hit all the buttons and play around turing the radio itself off and on. I double check the alarm time and find that it's exactly where it should have been. Ok...whatever...the music is off. I drift back to sleep.
Ten minutes later, the radio wakes me up again. Again, I fiddle with the switches - turning clock and alarms off and on, playing with volumes. Eventually, the radio fades off. I drift into a doze.
About ten minutes later it happens again. The radio is fading in and out, getting louder and softer. Now I'm wide awake. I fiddle with said buttons again. The music shuts off. I'm completely weirded out thinking maybe I've really been mostly asleep and this is all a dream. So I get up, get some water. I *know* I'm awake. I go and sit on the bed and stare at my clock.
And it does it again. The music getting louder and softer in no discernable pattern. I watch E- to see if he'll wake up. But no. No matter how loud the music gets he remains asleep.
So then am *I* still asleep and am just vividly dreaming? Are the songs trying to tell me something? Especially since something like this has happened to me before (with a radio randomly turning on and off for no apparant reason).
After about an hour of this (yeah, I let it go on that long) I finally wake E- up and ask him if he hears the music (something else I've been prone to in my past - hearing music that no one else does). He wakes up and turns the lights on (so if I was dreaming, I'm pretty much awake. The brightness and the cats protesting said brightness did it, alright). He has no idea what's going on. I *finally* just unplug the damn thing and put it out into the living room (cause if it's going to come on while it's unplugged, I don't want to know about it). I set Alarm 2 on E-'s alarm clock (we have our own cause we both wake up at different times during the week and like to wake up to different sounds...not like you need to know that...)
But this has freaked me out a bit. I lay awake for at least another hour trying to lull myself back to sleep. But then I don't sleep very well because part of my brain is wondering if I set E-'s alarm clock to the right time, volume, whatnot. I end up waking up a few minutes before it would have gone off anyway.
Needless to say, I'm just a bit tired today.
And I realize my clock radio is on. I come mostly awake, thinking that I somehow stupidly set my alarm for 2:00am. But I can't figure out how to turn it off. I hit all the buttons and play around turing the radio itself off and on. I double check the alarm time and find that it's exactly where it should have been. Ok...whatever...the music is off. I drift back to sleep.
Ten minutes later, the radio wakes me up again. Again, I fiddle with the switches - turning clock and alarms off and on, playing with volumes. Eventually, the radio fades off. I drift into a doze.
About ten minutes later it happens again. The radio is fading in and out, getting louder and softer. Now I'm wide awake. I fiddle with said buttons again. The music shuts off. I'm completely weirded out thinking maybe I've really been mostly asleep and this is all a dream. So I get up, get some water. I *know* I'm awake. I go and sit on the bed and stare at my clock.
And it does it again. The music getting louder and softer in no discernable pattern. I watch E- to see if he'll wake up. But no. No matter how loud the music gets he remains asleep.
So then am *I* still asleep and am just vividly dreaming? Are the songs trying to tell me something? Especially since something like this has happened to me before (with a radio randomly turning on and off for no apparant reason).
After about an hour of this (yeah, I let it go on that long) I finally wake E- up and ask him if he hears the music (something else I've been prone to in my past - hearing music that no one else does). He wakes up and turns the lights on (so if I was dreaming, I'm pretty much awake. The brightness and the cats protesting said brightness did it, alright). He has no idea what's going on. I *finally* just unplug the damn thing and put it out into the living room (cause if it's going to come on while it's unplugged, I don't want to know about it). I set Alarm 2 on E-'s alarm clock (we have our own cause we both wake up at different times during the week and like to wake up to different sounds...not like you need to know that...)
But this has freaked me out a bit. I lay awake for at least another hour trying to lull myself back to sleep. But then I don't sleep very well because part of my brain is wondering if I set E-'s alarm clock to the right time, volume, whatnot. I end up waking up a few minutes before it would have gone off anyway.
Needless to say, I'm just a bit tired today.
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