It is going to be a confusing day

[simont]

I can tell this, because of what happened when I woke up. My alarm clock went BEEP BEEP BEEP and said 8:00; so I hit Snooze, struggled to semi-wakefulness, and started trying to remind myself of the things that had really happened yesterday (board games, Doctor Who, washing up) so as to form a clear distinction between them and the things that had only happened in the past night's dream (awaiting trial on a technicality in the strange and fictitious legal system of an unnamed state which wasn't sure – and spent a lot of time hotly debating – whether it was religiously constituted or not). Somewhere along the line I slipped back into sleep.

Fortunately, my alarm clock saved the day by going BEEP BEEP BEEP again. But, curiously, it still said 8:00, not 8:09 as I would have expected. I could only assume that this was in fact the first time the alarm had really gone off, and the previous very realistic occurrence had in fact been part of my dream. Somewhat bemused, I went straight to the computer to write a diary entry about this bizarre phenomenon before I forgot about it.

The computer's clock said 8:12, and when I went back into the bedroom to check, so did the alarm clock. This suggested that it had in fact been 8:09 when the alarm went off the second time; so either my alarm clock has a misfeature whereby it displays the primary alarm time while beeping after a subsequent snooze period, or I'm completely unable to read at that time on a Monday morning. Neither is beyond the bounds of belief. Nor is the possibility that I in fact did dream the first alarm occurrence, the second did say 8:00, and I then dozed for ten minutes without noticing before getting up.

Something tells me that experiencing that much confusion within the first fifteen minutes is going to set its stamp on the entire day. If you catch me unaccountably talking about wombats or walruses at any point today, you'll know why.

Comments

[senji.livejournal.com]

There is a reason why I always set my alarm for a minute before the hour (or half hour)....

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

Argh, I do this sort of thing as well. Sometimes it later turns out that our resident toddler had turned the clock upside down, so what I thought was 3:30 was actually 9:00 (etc), but more often there's no logical explanation. I think our brains do weird things to us in our dreams - I reckon it's their only compensation for the weird things we do to them the rest of the time :-)

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

At least you weren't in a house where someone else's alarm goes off at 6am.

[spaglet.livejournal.com]

I lost a day down the back of the sofa, about two weeks ago. I still haven't recovered it, body clock now stuck perhaps permanently off by one.

Alarmage

[joshdavis]

I'm REALLY sorry.
I was toying with my new device which prevents human observation from collapsing quantum waves. Unfortunately, this had the unknown side effect of branching so many parallel universes that some of them began to overlap.

In one of those universes, I was a sneaky alarm clock.

When everything was finally collapsed and stabilized, there was some.... overlap.

My original plan was to blame it on the fact that you wear specs.