Well, that didn't work.

[chipotle]

I went to bed last night at a pretty reasonable time--one might say positively early, just a little past 11pm, and set my alarm clock for 6am. I figured I might manage to get myself out of bed a half-hour after that and have a good 60-90 minutes before getting out of the house.

So, of course, I spent nearly two hours hitting the snooze button.

I'd try to blame it on the cloudy, rainy weather outside and the lack of sunshine coming in to help the alarm clock, but I'm pretty sure I was still managing to get rest through that time. I had snatches of strange "dreamlets" in those nine-minute periods. It's the state of consciousness where I'm most likely to talk to characters of mine and get unexpected things back.

As I have before, I have a nebulous idea of "getting things done" in the morning. On Sunday evening, maybe I'll try and fall asleep thinking about a specific thing to get done, so if I set my alarm clock this early again, I'll wake up remembering just why.

On the bright side, I do feel like I've slept better than usual...

Comments

[tilton.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain. I inherited my awesome Snooze Button Power from my mother, who had to have three alarm clocks to get up in the morning when she was a young woman (one next to the bed, one across the room, and one behind the dresser that required her to grope around in the dark to find it and shut it off, each one set ten minutes later than the next closest one. I admire that.)

[hyanan.livejournal.com]

*sends cubana vibes your way* ;)

Beyond that, I’ve been suffering from the longest stretch of damn I’m unmotivated that I can recall having in a while.

I totally know what you mean by this. I'm going through one myself, but I may just be confusing it with one of my monthly what-the-hell-am-I-doing-with-my-life crises. :P

*hugs*

[collie13.livejournal.com]

I had snatches of strange "dreamlets" in those nine-minute periods. It's the state of consciousness where I'm most likely to talk to characters of mine and get unexpected things back.

Interesting. Usually I dream from the character's point of view, but aside from that I also frequently get revelatory explorations of their world view or behavior. In effect, once I start dreaming about a character I know I've really got their personality pegged. What sort of unexpected things do you get back? Inquiring minds wanna know! ;)