WTF? It's nightime?

[alixtii]

Okay, flist, what day is it? Because I remember going to bed and waking up--or at least I think I do (and I don't really know what the distinction is there, or if perhaps "I remember" is incorrigible--can I be mistaken about what I remember?--have I been reading too much Austin lately?)--only my computer says its ten p.m. instead of ten in the morning like I thought and that would explain why it's so dark outside and why they're setting fireworks off, and I'm just so confused.

Okay, maybe I was only asleep for fifteen minutes and thought I was asleep for the entire night? And didn't turn off my alarm half-asleep, like I thought, because it in fact didn't go off? I guess that makes sense, and means I didn't skip my morning walk. So hoorah, I guess.

I suppose that means I should go to bed now. But I don't exactly feel tired.

Wait. Did I feed the dog? Wait. Did I feed me? I don't remember eating dinner. I don't remember Friday evening at all.

*thinks*

Okay. Here's what I think happened: I think I took a nap after work, then woke up at 9pm thinking it was 9am Saturday when it was actually 9pm Friday. And when I was feeding the cats breakfast (I thought), I was actually giving them their dinner. That would explain it still being, you know, yesterday. And the fireworks are probably from a Riversharks game, because they have fireworks on Fridays. That makes sense. But I'm all disoriented now.

I'm going to go feed the dog now.

ETA: The other possibility is, of course, that I fell in a time loop and it is indeed my yesterday.

Which reminds me of my one other "sleeping time loop" story, which takes place in the beautiful town of Salzburg, Austria. My roommate and I (this was the semester abroad in London) had just flown in, and of course we changed our watches on the plane, setting them forward an hour. If either of us made a mistake and set it in the wrong direction, he would have set it back an hour.

We went to our hostel and, as we had been up all night (as our plane left Stanstead Airport at some ungodly hour in the morning and the transportation wouldn't be running yet, so we had to stay at the hospital overnight, keeping ourselves awake by doing our reading for classes), we immediately took a nap.

When we woke up, both of our watches were an hour ahead of everyone else's. That's two hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time--a mistake either one of us would be unlikely to make when resetting our watches, yet alone both of us.

The only reasonable explanation, then, is of course that space aliens stopped time, experimented on us for an hour while we were sleeping, then returned us to the time from which they took us.

ETA2: Okay, I've fed the dog and fed myself. My grandmother's turkey soup, of which I still had some leftovers in the fridge, so yum. Isn't there supposed to be some chemical in turkey which makes one sleepy? Hopefully it'll help me get back to sleep, and when I wake up in the morning--the actual morning--everything will be straightened out.

See you on the flip side, flist.

Again.

Comments

[wisdomeagle]

It is indeed Friday night. :)

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Not that there was all that much doubt once it occurred to me to check--my computer and my LJ and my watch all agree it is Friday night--but it is nice to hear it from, you know, a human being.

[invisionary.livejournal.com]

But is she a human being - or just another part of the experiment?

(Cue ominous music)

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Either way, she's an intelligence as opposed to an unthinking computer (not to open questions about what is thought and whether computers do it or something qualitatively different), and that's good for me. I welcome my new alien overlords if they can write femslash like Ari.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I welcome my new alien overlords if they can write femslash like Ari.

Fabulous.

[buffyannotater.livejournal.com]

This is why I hate falling asleep in the middle of the day...I always wake up feeling so completely disoriented, and not having any clue what planet I'm on for the rest of the day.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when I laid down I didn't even really expect for me to fall asleep, yet alone sleep for however-many hours.

Luckily, there's nothing I really need to get done, so I'll just eat some soup, go to bed, and hopefully in the (actual) morning everything will be straightened out.

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

I get that when I go to a movie in the middle of the day -- if it's still light out when the movie's over, I have this inexplicable feeling that it's a whole new day.

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

This may be the greatest post ever.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Erm, thanks, I suppose?

[inalasahl]

The only reasonable explanation, then, is of course that space aliens stopped time, experimented on us for an hour while we were sleeping, then returned us to the time from which they took us.
Well, so long as you're not traumatized, I guess.

Seriously weird, though.