I lay down for a few minutes today. I dreamed a woman beside me was asking a question. I didn't understand the question, am pretty sure I couldn't hear it correctly. So I started to ask her what she had said, or to rephrase it. And then I woke up.
If this had happened at night I might never have even been consciously aware of it. During the day, though, it was an eerie experience. Not an unpleasant one, though. I wouldn't have expected to be in REM sleep, or to dream anything.
If this had happened at night I might never have even been consciously aware of it. During the day, though, it was an eerie experience. Not an unpleasant one, though. I wouldn't have expected to be in REM sleep, or to dream anything.
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It's probable you don't usually nap during the day as a rule either, but I think the fact of isolation has more than a few of us sleeping and dreaming when we otherwise might not. I've read about other people having odd dreams at unusual times of day. I've always thought it would be interesting to participate in one of those dream labs and wondered how they'd get the volunteers to sleep at will.
Jer asked me to send you two items that indicate big changes were lurking in the background years ago. There were likely others too, ones you may think of yourself, but of the pair the first was the cover of Pink Floyd's (minus Roger Waters) 1987 'Momentary Lapse of Reason' album that looks pretty prophetic nowadays. The other was a 1993 episode of The Simpsons featuring an entertaining discussion about a pandemic.
Napping during the day is not an absolute first for me, but yeah, it is something I'm more likely to do now. If something gets under my skin I might just lie down for a spell to reboot the day. It could be that that kind of light sleeping is more conducive to remembering your dreams. I've been a lightly-paid test subject for the Brown psych labs, but it's just been on memory and decision-making. No sleep studies, alas.
From the looks of the Pink Floyd cover I'd say Storm Thorgerson shot it somewhere in the Australian desert. If it were done now the beds would probably be CGI'd in, which would be easier but maybe lacking something. It does seem to have predicted the future national mood. And the clip from The Simpsons is downright eerie. I'm relieved that at least housecats haven't been scapegoated in this thing. Bats have, which seems a little unfair.
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