Greetings to one and all!
Is it not odd how humans fall asleep? When we lay down to go to sleep, we may be turning over thoughts from the day, but then, after a time we cannot estimate, the last thoughts falls and we change from awake to asleep, a transition we do not consciously realize. However, a few weeks back I gripped the impossible. Do not suppose me to kid -- I caught myself falling asleep. My thoughts had become hushed whispers and my hands were on the doors to dreamland when BAM! My eyes shot open from their slow decline that resembled a garage door closing. The reaction in my mind, of course, was shock and jubilee. I felt like I had beaten the nature of sleep, that which says we may never witness the moment a human falls into slumber. In the very moment my body had attempted to cross the line into sleep, I had caught it, like pouncing on and ensnaring an elusive snake. I cocked a "Ha! Ha!" and spit it out, wishing that someone from Guiness had been there to record my feet. After ten seconds of rejoicing and analysing what had happened I laid my head back down and let sleep spitefully overtake me. It is interesting to me how an activity can temporarily affect your thinking. I will give two examples I know. First, after playing speed scrabble with a few friends of mine we walked down a street with many stores and shops. I instantaneously attempted to rearrange the letters to the first store sign I saw, searching for other words it might spell as if it were an allotment of scrabble letters. I laughed at the scrabble programming of my head and walked on, helping my brain to comprehend I was no longer playing the splendid game.
The second example I am sure many are more familiar with. Just today I had just finished reading a novel and was walking out of Starbucks when I began thinking in complete sentences, describing my actions, as if it were a descriptive passage in a book. "The boy walked out of the coffee shop, glanced at the busy traffic in the street, but soon returned his attention to his footing so as not to stumble on the way to his car..."
I bid you all adieu! I leave you with a quote from Harvey.
"You know, when I was young my mother used to say to me, 'In this world, Elwood,' -- she would always call me Elwood, she would say, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be O, so smart, or O, so pleasant.' Well, for many years I was smart. I'd recommend pleasant."
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