Are those his dreams? Or what’s happening outside?
Either way, is there a punch line or message of some sort in the surprising outcome, that it leaves him well rested?
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Note the darkness around the eyes. He took a nap, had horrible nightmares, and woke up less rested than he was before. He’s calling it refreshing either because he doesn’t realize it (fatigue really messes up your perception of fatigue) or because he’s lying to himself to make the nap not look like a bad idea.
I think Gnoman has nailed it.
Well, I guess I’m not the only one. When I take a nap my brain goes into overdrive. It’s not exactly refreshing.
@ MiB (3) – I don’t have problems with naps, but if something (like our cat) rouses me too early in the morning, then I’m at risk. The body may be tired and go back to bed, but the brain is up and wants to fool around. That’s when I get the really weird nightmares.
Kilby: Do you get the nightmare where you have to keep solving math problems in your head because otherwise the universe will stop functioning, and you can’t wake up because then you’d lose track of the math problems you’re solving in your head? I hate that one but I don’t know of anything I can do about it.
After we had the bedbugs – for several years I stopped remembering if I had been dreaming at all. I presumed I did, but did not remember any dreams.
I finally reached a point where I sometimes wake up in terror and presume I have been having nightmares – but don’t remember anything about them. Often I will wake Robert with moaning and tossing/turning – he will then wake me, tell me to turn over and we go back to sleep.
We may be getting closer – the other morning when he woke me from a nightmare he said I had screaming “don’t sell my toes”(?).
To badly state an alternative to a commercial – “A mind is terrible thing to have to deal with when it has a mind of its own.” I am waiting for him – a mental health professional – to tell me what he figures was going in my dream and if same is of any help and/or makes any sense – probably not.
@ MiB (5) – Nothing like that, but sometimes when I’m drifting off to sleep while reading a book, I have the surreal impression that I can still see (and read) the page, even when I am (just barely) conscious enough to know that my eyes are closed, and that this should be impossible.
Kilby: How about the dream, usually after the alarm goes off and I go back to sleep anyway, that I’m driving with my eyes closed through a particularly difficult part of the city, and I open one eye and see the bedroom, and quickly close my eye again because I’m sure to crash the car if I can’t see the road?
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Note the darkness around the eyes. He took a nap, had horrible nightmares, and woke up less rested than he was before. He’s calling it refreshing either because he doesn’t realize it (fatigue really messes up your perception of fatigue) or because he’s lying to himself to make the nap not look like a bad idea.
I think Gnoman has nailed it.
Well, I guess I’m not the only one. When I take a nap my brain goes into overdrive. It’s not exactly refreshing.
@ MiB (3) – I don’t have problems with naps, but if something (like our cat) rouses me too early in the morning, then I’m at risk. The body may be tired and go back to bed, but the brain is up and wants to fool around. That’s when I get the really weird nightmares.
Kilby: Do you get the nightmare where you have to keep solving math problems in your head because otherwise the universe will stop functioning, and you can’t wake up because then you’d lose track of the math problems you’re solving in your head? I hate that one but I don’t know of anything I can do about it.
After we had the bedbugs – for several years I stopped remembering if I had been dreaming at all. I presumed I did, but did not remember any dreams.
I finally reached a point where I sometimes wake up in terror and presume I have been having nightmares – but don’t remember anything about them. Often I will wake Robert with moaning and tossing/turning – he will then wake me, tell me to turn over and we go back to sleep.
We may be getting closer – the other morning when he woke me from a nightmare he said I had screaming “don’t sell my toes”(?).
To badly state an alternative to a commercial – “A mind is terrible thing to have to deal with when it has a mind of its own.” I am waiting for him – a mental health professional – to tell me what he figures was going in my dream and if same is of any help and/or makes any sense – probably not.
@ MiB (5) – Nothing like that, but sometimes when I’m drifting off to sleep while reading a book, I have the surreal impression that I can still see (and read) the page, even when I am (just barely) conscious enough to know that my eyes are closed, and that this should be impossible.
Kilby: How about the dream, usually after the alarm goes off and I go back to sleep anyway, that I’m driving with my eyes closed through a particularly difficult part of the city, and I open one eye and see the bedroom, and quickly close my eye again because I’m sure to crash the car if I can’t see the road?