One day, I went to bed at around 4pm. I had gone clubbing the night before and hadn’t slept at all . At one point, I woke up, got dressed and started brushing my teeth, ready to go to work. Then, all of a sudden, I thought: “Hold on a second. Isn’t it a little bit too dark for a summer morning? And what day is it anyway?”
It turns out that it was 11pm. I had “only” slept for 7 hours and it was a Saturday so I didn’t have to go to work. I went back to bed and slept until the next morning.
One weird thing I sometimes do is misread the alarm clock when I wake up, usually not seeing a 1. My shift starts at 1:30pm, so sometimes I’ll wake up at 12:05 (good), but see it as 2:05 (not good). I’ve even gone so far as to call in and let them know I’m running late before I notice what time it really is.
I frequently wake up about an hour after I’ve gone to bed thinking that I have forgotten something - usually a medication that I’m supposed to take before bed. I get out of bed and start rummaging through the drawers in the bathroom or the bedside table, desperately searching for that medication. Eventually I wake up enough to realize that this medication doesn’t exist. I do this almost every night.
I dream a lot, too. I’m pretty laid back when I’m awake, so I think all my stress must come out when I’m asleep.
Write a little note to yourself saying “dear Walkabout, it’s all right, you don’t need medicine and you are allowed to sleep.etc.”
A variant of notes I write to myself if I think I 'll need to be reassured that I DID post important payment, or DID take medicine or DID do anything important.
