Send back my dream test baby, she's my main feature...
Every few months or so, sleep and I sort of hit a rough patch in our relationship for anywhere from a few days to a week. I don't know why, but my brain gets disgruntled with the whole "lying down and slipping into a restful sleep coma for 8 or perhaps 10 hours" arrangement that's been working out so well for us, lo these many years. So lately I've been falling asleep, then waking up maybe 3-4 hours later for no apparent reason before (eventually) falling asleep again.
Lately that's been accompanied by weird auditory incidents, the kind that happen when you're just at the right point between asleep and awake. A voice I don't recognize speaking sharply, as if someone's in the room with me. "Pick up!" it said once. And just, "HEY." Another time, it was child-like laughter, which sounds like the beginning of a horror movie, but I was too tired at the time to be properly creeped out. Then yesterday it was the intro to Bowie's TVC15 with that little drum into piano bit. That confused me more than anything else, because I thought, oh, my phone. Some of the people in my contacts are assigned specific Bowie tunes. One friend is "Aladdin Sane". Another is "Strangers When We Meet". The general ringtone is "Sound and Vision". Nobody has been assigned "TVC15", which I realized after a few groggy seconds. Also my phone isn't even in the bedroom.
After learning about Bowie's passing, I listened to his music for a couple hours, then abruptly turned it off and I haven't listened to any of it since then. Like me and sleep, it's not a permanent hiatus, just a rough patch. But I thought it was funny that even though I haven't been listening to it, it still lurks in my subconscious and pops out at odd moments.
Lately that's been accompanied by weird auditory incidents, the kind that happen when you're just at the right point between asleep and awake. A voice I don't recognize speaking sharply, as if someone's in the room with me. "Pick up!" it said once. And just, "HEY." Another time, it was child-like laughter, which sounds like the beginning of a horror movie, but I was too tired at the time to be properly creeped out. Then yesterday it was the intro to Bowie's TVC15 with that little drum into piano bit. That confused me more than anything else, because I thought, oh, my phone. Some of the people in my contacts are assigned specific Bowie tunes. One friend is "Aladdin Sane". Another is "Strangers When We Meet". The general ringtone is "Sound and Vision". Nobody has been assigned "TVC15", which I realized after a few groggy seconds. Also my phone isn't even in the bedroom.
After learning about Bowie's passing, I listened to his music for a couple hours, then abruptly turned it off and I haven't listened to any of it since then. Like me and sleep, it's not a permanent hiatus, just a rough patch. But I thought it was funny that even though I haven't been listening to it, it still lurks in my subconscious and pops out at odd moments.