1 post tagged “sleeping”

29 Aug 2007

I lay down for my afternoon nap and fell asleep fairly fast, I guess.  I don’t really know because I don’t have a clock next to my bed, and even if I did have one I’m much to lazy to turn my head and body to wherever the clock is positioned.  Plus, it would get my field of vision out of alignment with the television, and anyway I’m too lazy to rearrange the pillows to a comfortable position after moving them while turning.  Plus all I have to do to get the time is to thumb and finger the remote control to the channel that has the Comcast television lineup and, voila!, the time is right there.  However, I didn’t want to do that as the sound of me changing the television channel might have waked her up.  

Yun doesn’t sleep very well, and if she is waked up while sleeping she stays up.  That’s not good because she never gets that restorative sleep that the “Bionic Woman” (Lindsay Wagner) tells us about, over and over again, and over again, in that Sleep Number Bed Mattress commercial she does on television.  As you know, not getting restorative sleep keeps you tired pretty much all of the time.

So, anyway, I just lay there on my side of the bed watching television, waiting for sleep to come, as eventually it did.  So, I am lying there, asleep and dreaming, I guess, because I almost never remember having dreams.  So, I have no idea what I was dreaming of, but all of a sudden I jerk upright....I had sleep hit myself in my own.  I know this because, first, I was in pain, and second, my open palm was still in contact with my nose.  I have heard of people sleep walking, sleep driving, sleep cooking, and sleep eating, but this is the first time I heard of someone sleep hitting themselves. 

The worst part of this is that I can’t report this to the American Medical Society as they, no doubt would want to lock me in a room, strap me down, and hook me up to all kinds of brainwave measuring devices, trying to come up with a way to make the terrorists beat themselves to death, and while I support such an effort, I don’t want to be the Guinea Pig.  And, I can’t report it to the Guinness Book of World Records because I don’t have proof.

More later