WTF? I got up 4 hours too early this morning!
My alarm was set for 5:00am, but I got up at 1:00am, took my morning wake-up medicines, and hopped in the shower. It wasn’t until half-way through the shower that I noticed what time it was. Ugh! So, I finished my shower, and went back to bed.
The weirder thing is, I specifically remember that when I woke up, I went into the bathroom and put my glasses on, then went back into the bedroom… The only reason I can think of that I would have done that is to check the time, and make sure my alarms were turned off before taking my shower. But, as it turns out, my alarms were still set for 5:00am. So I’m not sure what I was thinking.
This is not the first time this has happened. It happened at least once before, sometime in the past year and a half. Weirdness. I’m guessing there was some dream<–>reality mixup involved, kind of like what used to happen to me in high school and college, but with opposite results…
I used to turn off my alarm clock without waking up, and then proceeded to dream that I took a shower and got ready for school. Then, my mom would wake me up when it was nearing time to catch the bus, and I would be all sorts of pissed off and confused, because I truly believed that I had gotten up with my alarm, taken a shower, got dressed, etc. This happened way too often.
This time, maybe I was dreaming that my alarm was going off, and that I was shutting it off, and then heading to the bathroom to take a shower… and my body physically did go through some of the motions, and ended up in the bathroom, where I proceeded to actually wake up for real. Since there is no clock prominently posted in the bathroom (I only noticed the time in the shower because of the little tiny clock on my shaving mirror in the shower), I did not question that it was time to be awake, because I still remembered turning off my alarm (which happened to be in a dream).
Oh, the joys of narcolepsy!
Consequently, when my alarm really went off at 5am, and I got up (and triple-checked that the alarms were turned off, and that it was really the right time), I took my meds again (unorthodox to take an extra dose, but I think the situation warrants it!), and took another (slightly shorter) shower, for medicinal purposes (can’t function well without my morning shower, especially when I’m sick [I’ve got a cold and/or sinus infection right now]).
I’ll definitely be checking the clock *before* taking my showers, from now on. I hope the rest of the day goes smoother!
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December 30th, 2006 at 12:28 am
make sure you got the AM & PM straight, lol
i showed up at work
in a panic apologetic
oh my gawd i was late
my co-worker played it too
lookin at his watch not saying
a word.
then he tells me its 7:30
and kept saying it over and over
and i kept all apologies allsorts
IN THE MORNING he laughed
no one ever shows up at work
because theyve got the light wrong
ive asked whoever will listen
i’d mowed the lawn that day
after working a regular day shift
and fell asleep on the couch;
man was that funny
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:24 pm
I did more or less the same thing in high school!
I got up to go for a run with friends, we typically met at around 5am. I got dressed, left the house, and started running.
I noticed that it was quieter than usual, but didn’t think much of it.
I got to my friend’s house, and realized it was like 1 or 2am.
Whoops.
It was such an odd feeling, and I can’t believe I did all of that on auto pilot.
August 1st, 2007 at 11:21 pm
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