Here's an 'interesting' one...
Scrobs very occasionally has a night of repeated tossing and turning, with stupid dreams and noises off, like the majority of normal citizens!
Last night, one of these events seemed to take on a rather surreal production, with various awakenings, several 'drops off', and eventually three hours slumber from around 3.00am.
In fact, last night, I solved a Telegraph Crossword clue, (1 across, 5,3,6), which had been bugging me for a couple of days; I'd heard the lorries crashing by and avoiding the roadworks on a parallel main road, and listened to the dog snoring, and chasing something in her sleep.
So the eventual realms of dormancy prevailed, and I dropped off around the allotted time! But the ridiculous dreams persisted, and near dawn, during a strange dream, where my dear wife and daughter were in my parents' house, laughing at the dog, I was panicking because the hound was steadily chewing one of my favoured Airpods, and eventually swallowing it!
The awakening arrived with said dog softly pawing my shoulder to go out - in real time - and for a nanosecond, I thought of berating her for eating my connection to my iPhone!
I'm not sure what a trick cyclist might surmise from this episode, but by Golly, did it make me laugh!
I’m in the throes of the same thing (and really shouldn’t be commenting just now!) but thought I’d offer a similar recent experience - not for the first time - of weird dreams after a 3am crossword session.
ReplyDeleteIn my latest case, I woke up convinced I had found a lasting solution to world peace. All I can recall is that it involved a bicycle, a polecat and some fossilised eggs; make of that what you will, but it does suggest that there’s definitely something about late-night engaging of that particular bit of the brain which leads to some very rum mental scenarios.
I hope you are currently having a better night!
Sounds perfectly normal to me, MacH!
ReplyDeleteI try not to turn the light on as houndess tends to want to chat and lick, so it's off to bed each evening with a clue 'memorised', and hopefully resolved by morning! It has actually worked several times, so the old brain does take on another bit of reserve, while de-fragging, (remember that word?), the past day's events!
Certainly your combination would work, as everything else has failed miserably, so I expect to see your memoirs offered as proof for the Nobel Prize in due course!
I sometimes find myself composing a blog post at that time of the morning, a really good one which ties up lots of loose ends in a few pithy phrases. Gone by morning of course, and it's probably just as well.
ReplyDeleteI always marvel at the myriad of posts you manage each week, AK - you must have a pretty thick notebook somewhere in the old roll-top!
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