Haven't had much sleep lately—usually about five hours a night, sometimes a little more, sometimes a little less.<\/p>\n
Last night, I went to bed earlier than usual, but woke up five hours later.<\/p>\n
Stayed awake for a while, but after deciding I was awake for the day, started to get sleepy again. So I put on music that often helps me go to sleep, on infinite loop on my iPhone, and drifted off. (I originally got that music on a cassette tape in high school; a few years ago, I found it on CD and transferred it to my computer.)<\/p>\n
And I spent the next two hours in the following pattern:<\/p>\n
The weird things were things like: realizing I was in an unfamiliar house; realizing it was an unfamiliar tape deck; realizing my computer was one I'd never seen before; leaning down to kiss someone and discovering that although they were clearly visible and we were having a conversation, they weren't tangible (that was really freaky).<\/p>\n
In various of the sequences, there was also a bunch of stuff about my father, in various variations, including his still being alive. I think in a couple of them I ended up having arguments with him on the phone.<\/p>\n
In the last cycle, I woke up to the sound of a friend's voice from outside the open front door of the house calling me, semi-urgently, to bring my ID. I struggled awake, stood up, and realized that maybe one reason I'd been having such weird dreams was that I had gotten all tangled in a bunch of clothing while I slept; I had even somehow managed to end up wearing a skirt (which I think was one of Mary Anne's dresses). I looked at my tape deck, thought it didn't look quite right, but reassured myself that it really was my tape deck and I really was awake and this really was the real world. Turned off the music—and then woke up.<\/p>\n
So now I'm awake in my entirely familiar room, with my entirely familiar iPhone that was playing music, in the same clothes I went to bed in, typing on my entirely familiar computer. I'm pretty sure this one isn't a dream, but that's what I thought about at least a couple of the ones that turned out to be.<\/p>\n
I've had other dream-within-a-dream nested \"and then I woke up\" experiences, but I don't think it's ever been nested more than about three levels deep before. This time was at least five or six, and maybe more like ten or fifteen.<\/p>\n
The music is a 20-minute-long piece; I kind of wonder whether each segment was twenty minutes. But I gather that dreams tend to be much shorter in real time than in subjective time.<\/p>\n
Anyway, I imagine that a couple of hours of dreaming was good for me, given recent sleep debt, but it would've been nicer if the dreams had been less unsettling.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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