Last night I slept for toffee.<\/p>\n
Warm does not describe the temperatures in my room when I hit the mattress at midnight. It wasn’t excessively hot, but neither was it comfortable. I turned the window fan up to maximum, turned out the lights, and hoped for sleep, even if it were a restless sleep.<\/p>\n
At 2:30 I awoke to the crash of thunder. A storm of driving rain and the kind of electrical charges that would power a dozen temporally-equipped DeLoreans parked itself above the house, and for half an hour I listened to the pounding of rain against the roof and the clamor of thunder, while the sky was alight with lightning.<\/p>\n
I fell back asleep.<\/p>\n
At 4:30 the sound of the garbage truck on its weekly run roused me.<\/p>\n
I rolled over and fell back asleep.<\/p>\n
The alarm clock buzzed, that harsh tone that I’ve known for seven years. I hit the snooze button, as is my wont, and I rolled over onto my right side and closed my eyes. Instead of trying to squeeze that last moment of sleep from my night, I mused on the bizarre dream I was in the midst of when the alarm blared.<\/p>\n
I had to write a profile of Grant Morrison for work. We met on what seemed to be a college campus, somewhere near the ocean or a bay as the sky was filled with gulls. We talked about a clock tower atop a colonial-era building that sat in the midst of tall dormitories. Morrison then demonstrated his secret power — teleportation! — and he revealed his long unexpressed desire to write nautical fiction in the style of Horatio Hornblower or Jack Aubrey. Indeed, we discussed this in a replica captain’s quarters. He never once took off his sunglasses.<\/p>\n
I’d hit the snooze button, but the second blare of the alarm never came. Had I, in my half-asleep state, accidentally shut off the alarm? I sat up, looked at the clock.<\/p>\n
5:47, it read.<\/p>\n
My alarm is set for 6:35.<\/p>\n
I had dreamed it all. The alarm going on. The pressing of the snooze button. The interruption of my Grant Morrison dream.<\/p>\n
A recursive dream.<\/p>\n
I hate recursive dreams.<\/p>\n
On a different note, I’ve been listening to Y’All Is Fantasy Island<\/a>, a Scottish folk band recently. The band’s last.fm page<\/a> has four tracks for free download, but they’re atypical. The singer, Adam Stafford, has a voice that reminds me greatly of The Byrds’ Roger McGuinn. I find their music quite haunting. I also find it quite easy to write to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night I slept for toffee. Warm does not describe the temperatures in my room when I hit the mattress at midnight. It wasn’t excessively hot, but neither was it comfortable. I turned the window fan up to maximum, turned out the lights, and hoped for sleep, even if it were a restless sleep. AtContinue reading “On A Rough Night’s Sleep”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[542,582],"class_list":["post-2382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-dreams","tag-grant-morrison","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}