It’s Tuesday, it’s 10.33 and I’m hungry and beginning to flag. So far I have accomplished little.
Even the title I just settled on, whilst holding a modicum of humour, is imperfect, as no prunes appear in the post.
Last night I dreamed of microwaving something. I’m not sure what but the microwave alarm turned out to be my alarm telling me it was time to wrench myself from bed and make breakfast. It was a pitiful thing made of fresh fruit and wheat biscuits, full of fibre and vitamins, and lacking in charm and good cheer. Then I drove Julia to wood turning, struggled in traffic and finally returned home where I started sorting out emails.
Turned wood Christmas decorations with acrylic paint marbling
Really, I should be brimming with energy and preparing to launch myself on the main part of the day.
I am in a quandary. Do I need toast and tea to restore my energy levels, or do I need to lose weight to restore my energy levels? I’m not sure I can do both.
Experience suggests that if I stop, have tea and watch a little daytime TV, I will nod off. This is not good. Alternatively I can make tea, sit back at my desk and, lacking energy, stare at my screen. Experience suggests that if I can’t find inspiration, I may well nod off.
There have been times in my life when the ability to sleep in adverse circumstances has been useful. This is not one of them.
While I’m here – does anyone know anything about the mechanism where an external alarm is so rapidly assimilated into a dream? I could swear that the alarm started in my dream before the external one went off, but it seems unlikely. Presumably some academic know the explanation, but so far my internet searches have failed to find one.
I can find stuff on the symbolism of alarm clocks in dreams, and see that other people have similar dreams, but that’s not the question. I’m puzzled by the speed with which it seems to become part of the dream.
More my type of breakfast
I have never worried too much about those times when I am doing “nothing”. Firstly, it is always other busybodies who cast nasturtiums. Secondly I am working, in my mind, on solving deep and meaningful problems. So my advice to to worry less and contemplate more.
Wise advice. Now all I need to do is follow it, which I always find more difficult. I have just written a list, so don’t need to worry about idleness for the rest of the day.
I was going to say I bet you’d rather have a good fry up, and then I got to the bottom of the post and there it was! The couple of times I was lucky to be in the UK I was amazed by the wonderful fry ups and have tried to replicate them at home but nowadays it is always oatmeal and fruit.
Oatmeal and fruit is the sensible choice. 🙂
The external often influences dreams. I would speculate that this was the other way round. Your dream world registered that it was time to get up so you incorporated the alarm going off before it did. Innit?
That is what I sometimes suspect. But that makes my internal clock seem a lot more organised than it really is. 🙂
I don’t have to do it now, but I could always tell myself the time to wake up, instead of using an alarm clock
A useful skill. I tried it but it didn’t always work. 🙂
I can have fantastically long and complex dreams in the few seconds between hearing the radio and actually waking up properly. I am usually having difficulty finding the right way to go in a strange location, perhaps a metaphor for my whole life.
It could well be a metaphor.
It’s interesting that you seem to have the same distortion of time that I experience when the alarm sounds in mid-dream.
I have to say that the fruit and cereal looks delicious to me. I guess it’s all a matter of taste. Are you able to take short cat naps? If so, then that might be the thing to do when you are feeling tired. I know not everyone can. Julia’s ornaments are so pretty. Will she be selling them, do you think? I would love to buy one or two, but I suppose the shipping is really expensive.
It’s delicious and healthy and sometimes just what I need. Other times . . .
Let me form a plan about postage.
Great! I will be waiting to hear.
On it now. 🙂
I rarely remember my dreams. I do actively hear my internal alarm that wakes me minutes before Morning mood lullsevfully awake
Everything is vivid at the moment of waking, then it fades so fast I can rarely recall any detail.
I remember nothing
🙂