Sunday, October 3, 2010

Day or Night? Crucial factor

I just woke up extremely disoriented. The main problem is that my sleep schedule is out of wack. I have always been an early bird waking up by 8 or 8:30 a.m. everyday. And here in Spain, they have these amazing blinds that block out all light and make your room dangerously dark and cavelike. Hence I can now sleep until an impressive sloth-like hour. Today I slept until 4 p.m. It just happens, even if I do nothing the night before, I run the risk of sleeping for a few days when I close my eyes. This evening I went to bed at 10:45 p.m., a mere 6.5 hours after waking up. I woke up to someone coughing, and realized it was myself. Which has been normal with this sore garganta (I love this Spanish word. I wish the Pixies would cover their Gigantic song with it, but I don't think they would mainly because it doesn't make any sense but none of my ideas really do. I'll just dream it happened.) Anyway... when I awoke my clock read 12:59. And at this point, I lost my marbles.

 I wish I could have filmed the next thirty minutes. I jumped out of bed, looked at my phone, the clock, my phone, the computer, the clock and remained disoriented as to whether I had just slept two hours or 14. I was in this half-awake kind of anything-is-believable dream state where I really could not just figure out what part of the day it was. Waking up like this isn't new to me, sometimes I wake up and am still completely confused by the fact that my clock says 15:42 because of the military time they use. Please just tell me night or day for god's sake! Then I dream walk into the bathroom and do a double take of the two toilets. But I'll save my bidet commentary for another bid-day.

Anyway, I was saved by Facebook. It told me that I commented on someone's photo two hours ago and it didn't appear to be a narcoleptic's commentary and so I deduced that I had in fact only slept two hours. Here I am, proud of myself for reading time, and realized a look out of my window might have done the trick. Although, its been pouring night and day, so then again maybe not.

I still had my bowl of cereal (a trait I undoubtedly acquired from my midnight munching dad) and wondered if I would still want my morning bowl in 6 hours. Miss a balanced breakfast and how will my day even go on? Drat, I am now tampering with a food schedule as well. I wonder if everyone has similar problems with feeding and sleeping. I am so jealous of Wilder (my new nephew) without a care in the world. Just eating and sleeping without mind to any schedules. Babies.

Wilder Risch Opie

And you thought my blog would be about Spain..... rahaha.

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