Sunday, March 9, 2008

Inexplicable Nighttime Events

I still haven't gotten over this, and I'm not sure that I ever will.

I went to bed early last night around 11:30 because I was running on only 3 hours of sleep from the night before and I had to wake up early for another day of shooting a film. I tried calling my friend to find out what the plan was because he was going to pick me up in the morning. I couldn't get through so I just texted him and told him to text me back as soon as he could with details. I figured I would wake up as soon as I got the message and then I could set my alarm appropriately. So I go to sleep.

In my dream I started to think, "maybe I should check to see if I got that message yet". Then I'm not sure what happened. Dream and reality collided at some point but I can't figure out where to draw the line. I suddenly woke up with my eyes open. Then about 2 seconds later my phone went off and I checked it. It was the details for when I would be picked up. I set my alarm. I checked the clock and it was 2:30. I remember thinking how incredibly strange that I had woken up just moments before the message came through, especially since 2:30 is a pretty strange time to wake up like that for no reason. I go back to sleep.

In my dream I tell some friends about how crazy it was that I woke up just before the phone went off. I'm basically repeating the above paragraph to everyone in my dream. I think in my dream I may have realized how coincidental it really was and maybe I had been dreaming the whole thing. I couldn't actually be sure anymore.

When I woke up I was thoroughly puzzled by the events. I wondered if it had actually happened. The thing is, my alarm was all set properly, and I only remember setting it once, right after I got the message, so I'm pretty sure that I didn't dream that. I checked the time that I had received the message at, and it was actually 1:30, not 2:30 like I had thought before. This caused me to question everything again. If it wasn't all very strange already, I learned early this morning that it was actually daylight savings time. So my 2:30 time was the correct time of the message, my phone just hadn't changed the clock yet. So what happened? Did I misread the clock when I woke up? I was very sure it was 2:30 until I checked the time on the message later. Did my phone's clock change times a couple times in the night? I doubt it. Did I dream 2:30? That would mean I accurately dreamed the time, even accounting for the daylight savings change that I was not even aware of at the time? Everything about the night seems very coincidental. I don't know. Bizarre.

Since anything more I write in this post for today will sound pretty normal and probably boring I'm just going to say that's it.

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