Seein things running through mah head...

[susie_flo]

Dear fiends, I am wondering - have you ever hallucinated? Isn't it a weird thing when your brain lies to you so convincingly?

Last night I got up for work twice. Once at 1:30am and again around 4am.  Both times I was 100% sure that my alarm had gone off many  times and when I looked at the clock I saw that it was after 7:30am and I had to rush.

The first illusion did not last long... I worked out pretty quickly that it was in fact 1:30am and went straight back to bed.

The second time I went for a shower and put my contact lenses in and was 100% convinced that I could see daylight outside the bathroom window. The only thing that gave it away was that the cat was not badgering me for breakfast. It made me look at the kitchen clock... which I thought must have stopped, because it was still saying 4:20am... (and then I remembered that I had changed the battery on it only days ago).

The moment I realised the clock had not stopped, I became aware that it was also not daylight outside, but pitch black. A second earlier I had been sure that I was looking at sunrise. Weird.

I am now officially knackered. And have a sore throat. I think I might have picked up some kind of ailment... tsk.


On an unrelated matter - are any of you watching Glee? I watched an episode last night and can only hope that 'Acafellas' is not going to become a long term feature. (Colour Me Badd were scarring enough at the time without horrible cover versions being shoved down my tellyhole.)

Comments

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

On the scariness front, I think your brother's disembodied head with a bushy beard beats spiders! I am imagining him as a cross between Brian Blessed and Holofernes (of being-slayed-by-Judith fame)

[steer.livejournal.com]

I remember a whole night of being convinced that I was about to be burgled and saying "don't be stupid go to sleep" and tossing and turning then eventually getting up to put the chain on the door (I tend to sleep with main door unlocked). Then I realised that it was a dream and had to go through the whole argument again... and again. In the end I probably put the chain on the door a dozen times that night.

Eventually after a restless night, I went to make a coffee at 7:30 am and found that I never really did it.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

It's weird how the night seems to go on for an endless cycle of repetition isn't it?

[sara-lou.livejournal.com]

I quite often halluncinate / sleep talk / sleep walk... much to others' amusement at times.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I usually sleep like a log, so last night's shenanigans were a bit of a surprise to me! I thought I was fully awake, but perhaps I wasn't

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

I hope you have a much better night sleepwise tonight.

I've had dreams that are so vivid I could have sworn I was awake - even though I wasn't I was dreaming.

I've also had horrible dreams in which I was aware I was asleep but couldn't wake myself up.

[whiteshadow.livejournal.com]

Ha, I once hallucinated so well, it was more real than ... reality, I really don't want to do that again any time soon!