A Dream State
Woman in the Middle | August 20, 2014Yesterday morning I was deep asleep when the alarm went off. I really don’t like that disoriented feeling I have when that happens. When the music started playing and I was yanked from dreamland it was so hard to figure out where I was and what had awakened me. Even more weird, I was flat on my back with my hands neatly folded on my stomach, my fingers carefully intertwined. What?!? How did that happen? How did my hands find each other in sleep and come together like that??
Hubby and I ran a quick errand when he got home from work last night and I was telling him about my exciting (not!) day. Since about the most exciting thing that happened to me was waking up with my body all neatly arranged like a dead person, I told him about it. He wasn’t surprised. He said nine times out of ten that is how I look when my snoring wakes him up at about four in the morning. Apparently that is my snoring position – if I am in that position I snore.
I asked if I have been doing this a while or if it was a more recent thing. He said I have been doing it awhile but it has gotten much more frequent in the last year. I commented that it must be weird to wake up and see the person sleeping next to you looking like that. “Uh, yeah…” he said dryly.
Now I wonder what else I am doing while I am sleeping. I expect to wake up soon with my hair neatly braided or my fingernails trimmed or something. Maybe I should leave some tweezers on my nightstand so I can pluck my eyebrows in my sleep. Sheesh!
I have days that I feel like I drift through it while still mostly asleep
Whenever my ex-husband snored, I’d roll him on his side and he’d stop snoring immediately without waking up.
The other night I reached over, placed my hand on my husband’s head, and began to dribble it like a basketball. It was a rude awakening for him while I slept through the whole thing.