Belatedly, G is for Grumble

[wyld_dandelyon]

My sleep was interrupted Sunday night with a loud crash followed by a scream and loud cussing. Given that in my not-so-distant memory, My Angel nearly died from a fall, I was immediately wide awake with a huge spike of adrenaline

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[wyld_dandelyon]

That sounds to me like it would take a lot more brain power than hitting the off button! But it's a great story. :-D

[wyld_dandelyon]

It's the "pull the guts out" that seems like it would require a lot more brain power than "hit the button", but clearly your brain isn't identical to mine!

[wyld_dandelyon]

In contrast, it took a very very long time to convince my brain that I suffered consequences if I turned my alarm clock off without becoming aware of doing so.

On weekends, I can still turn the alarm off on my cell phone (much more complex than smacking the old snooze bars I used to have on bedside clocks) without waking up enough to have any memory of the act.

[wyld_dandelyon]

It's more that I somehow set a reflex that I must wake up enough to be aware of the alarm, and the knowledge of consequences (or the fear of same) was the fuel for creating that reflex.

Don't ask me how I did it though; the best I can do is say "mind over matter" or "I willed it so". If you define magic as changing the world according to your will, you could say I performed magic to change that default setting in my brain.

[wyld_dandelyon]

Perhaps you have shifted some of your brain power from tracking what time it is to tracking time passing so your music tempo is precise, or to creating songs or playing instruments. I bet when you were you were able to wake up at a precise time, you weren't doing those other things at the level you are now.

I do know my ability to wake up on command (though never as precise as that) goes away when I am too short of sleep. It's as if my inner self is willing to go along with me only so far, and stops short of doing things that are harmful to my health.

[wyld_dandelyon]

Oops, I'm being dyslexic with mixing up twitter handles. Sorry about that.