FALSE AWAKENINGS (Is Life a Dream)
Although this has happened to me before years ago it seems that nothing can prepare you for it happening again – and it’s really freaked me out!
Thing is, I’ve gone through a whole morning this morning thinking I’ve been awake when in fact I haven’t..! In truth, I’m pinching myself right now just in case..?
I ‘woke’ up between quarter past and six-thirty (remember putting on my glasses and checking the clock the moment I prised my eyes open), showered first as planned, had a breakfast of cheese on toast and got an early start on the larger of the two canvases I’m currently working on. Well, after a bit of a struggle the painting went really well and I swear to God I wouldn’t have woken up at all if it wasn’t for just one thing.
After putting the kettle on to make coffee at around ten-thirty I went to text my girlfriend to let her know I was taking a break so she could give me a bell on the landline; nothing strange in that – true enough, until the phone rang and I began to realize something was just a wee bit odd. What didn’t fully register when I was on my way over to pick up the receiver was what amounted to a peculiar ring tone and it was only when I was just about to pick up the handset itself that it dawned on me that the phone had completely changed – In place of my cordless BT Quartet 1100 (just checked to see it’s back where it should be) was the big red seventies style telephone of my youth. Even then I just remained puzzled and frozen to the spot – me racking my brain trying to figure out when on earth I’d picked the old thing up from Dad’s back in England! Bear in mind now, this was nothing like a dream, so, while staring at the thing, which kept on ringing perhaps longer than it would normally have done, it took me what seemed like an age before I worked out that along with the phone none of this was actually happening for 'real', and only then did I wake up.
Found this on the Web amongst other things, and it seems it’s a fairly common phenomenon…
Anyway, it’s around ten-thirty ‘again’ and unfortunately I’m not as far on as I was when ‘asleep’!
Thing is, I’ve gone through a whole morning this morning thinking I’ve been awake when in fact I haven’t..! In truth, I’m pinching myself right now just in case..?
I ‘woke’ up between quarter past and six-thirty (remember putting on my glasses and checking the clock the moment I prised my eyes open), showered first as planned, had a breakfast of cheese on toast and got an early start on the larger of the two canvases I’m currently working on. Well, after a bit of a struggle the painting went really well and I swear to God I wouldn’t have woken up at all if it wasn’t for just one thing.
After putting the kettle on to make coffee at around ten-thirty I went to text my girlfriend to let her know I was taking a break so she could give me a bell on the landline; nothing strange in that – true enough, until the phone rang and I began to realize something was just a wee bit odd. What didn’t fully register when I was on my way over to pick up the receiver was what amounted to a peculiar ring tone and it was only when I was just about to pick up the handset itself that it dawned on me that the phone had completely changed – In place of my cordless BT Quartet 1100 (just checked to see it’s back where it should be) was the big red seventies style telephone of my youth. Even then I just remained puzzled and frozen to the spot – me racking my brain trying to figure out when on earth I’d picked the old thing up from Dad’s back in England! Bear in mind now, this was nothing like a dream, so, while staring at the thing, which kept on ringing perhaps longer than it would normally have done, it took me what seemed like an age before I worked out that along with the phone none of this was actually happening for 'real', and only then did I wake up.
Found this on the Web amongst other things, and it seems it’s a fairly common phenomenon…
Anyway, it’s around ten-thirty ‘again’ and unfortunately I’m not as far on as I was when ‘asleep’!
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