I will maintain forever that you’ve had a really great night of sleep when you wake up and you have no idea what day it is. That’s what happened to me this morning. I suppose I could’ve turned on the radio to find out, but instead, I was halfway through my shower, having an internal debate with myself whether today was sometime during the week or Saturday, when I remembered that today, was, in fact, Wednesday.
I hope I don’t know what day it is when I wake up tomorrow, either.
That happened to me on Monday morning – I woke up and thought it was Saturday. What a let-down.
Comment by Notablem — December 20, 2007 @ 11:15 am
I woke up Monday morning thinking it was Saturday. What a let-down that was!!
Comment by Notablem — December 20, 2007 @ 1:34 pm
Yeah, but when you have stuff to do on a certain day, you feel helpless when you forget what day it is, don’t you?
Comment by losrulz — December 20, 2007 @ 6:11 pm
It’s when I wake up and don’t know where I am that I know I slept a little too well.
Comment by yellojkt — December 21, 2007 @ 7:49 am
I’ve had a similiar experience, except with music.
I will hear a song on the radio (CD, whatever), but I can’t figure out what song it is, so my brain starts to build an entirely new tune on top of the ‘skeleton’ I’m trying to process. I find that if I can ignore my brain long enough, I can ‘record’ this new song in my head before the verdict comes through. “Aha! That’s ‘Higher Ground’, by Stevie Wonder (or whatever). If I could read or write music, I could have put out whole albums of this weird ethereal stuff by now. The point is, this whole process of forgetting what day it is, or simply not knowing at all, is sort of like being out of ‘cell phone range’ with your consciousness, no drugs or drink involved. It’s nice to be able to take your phone off the hook for a few minutes, by, as the late Douglas Adams often put it, “Throwing yourself at the ground and missing.”
Comment by TWM — December 21, 2007 @ 10:48 am
Dude, you REALLY need a grown-up job.
Comment by Emptyman — December 21, 2007 @ 8:51 pm