To sleep, perchance...
Nov. 29th, 2002 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaThis morning I overslept horribly. I woke up reasonably early, decided that my neck hurt a bit and I'd stay lying down for another half an hour - but didn't reset my alarm. Doomed.
Now, I'm not too dim, and I can learn from experience. I know that when I think "I'll just stay in bed for another 10 minutes" that I will actually doze back off, and wake up anything up to a few hours later.
But when I'm actually in that half awake state, I don't know this. It's not (despite numerous accusations from others) that I'm just too damn lazy to get up. I genuinely believe that I will be getting up in a few minutes - not because today I'll somehow manage not to doze off, but because I've forgotten that that's a problem.
I've observed on a number of occasions that when half awake I lose the ability to make rational decisions (yes, yes, insert "What ability?" joke here if you must), and I can forget really quite important facts.
It doesn't seem unreasonable to assume that when you're half asleep, your brain isn't working properly. But that's not quite how it feels - I appear actually to become a much more unreasonable and obstinate person, without the same memories I usually have.
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floralaetifica, if you're reading this - am I right in thinking that Dan's BA thesis was into something along these lines, about whether people retain their personalities when asleep ? Do you know what he concluded, or if he'd let me read it ? I'm interested...
Whenever I go back to sleep of a morning, I always end up having odd dreams. I firmly believe that recounting your dreams is the height of egotism, but you're reading LJ, you should be used to it :)
This morning I dreamt I'd gone to a wedding withshekhmet and Samantha. It turned out that they knew all the same people, but knew them by different names, and I had to match the names to the people for them. The only one I can remember now was that Samantha knew moomintroll as 'The Black Snowman'.
I don't think my subconscious should be allowed to make up my dreams for me, it clearly doesn't know what it's doing...
Now, I'm not too dim, and I can learn from experience. I know that when I think "I'll just stay in bed for another 10 minutes" that I will actually doze back off, and wake up anything up to a few hours later.
But when I'm actually in that half awake state, I don't know this. It's not (despite numerous accusations from others) that I'm just too damn lazy to get up. I genuinely believe that I will be getting up in a few minutes - not because today I'll somehow manage not to doze off, but because I've forgotten that that's a problem.
I've observed on a number of occasions that when half awake I lose the ability to make rational decisions (yes, yes, insert "What ability?" joke here if you must), and I can forget really quite important facts.
It doesn't seem unreasonable to assume that when you're half asleep, your brain isn't working properly. But that's not quite how it feels - I appear actually to become a much more unreasonable and obstinate person, without the same memories I usually have.
floralaetifica, if you're reading this - am I right in thinking that Dan's BA thesis was into something along these lines, about whether people retain their personalities when asleep ? Do you know what he concluded, or if he'd let me read it ? I'm interested...Whenever I go back to sleep of a morning, I always end up having odd dreams. I firmly believe that recounting your dreams is the height of egotism, but you're reading LJ, you should be used to it :)
This morning I dreamt I'd gone to a wedding with
shekhmet and Samantha. It turned out that they knew all the same people, but knew them by different names, and I had to match the names to the people for them. The only one I can remember now was that Samantha knew moomintroll as 'The Black Snowman'.I don't think my subconscious should be allowed to make up my dreams for me, it clearly doesn't know what it's doing...
