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!
4 comments:
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.
In 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!
I 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.
I 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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