Musings of a Compulsive Thinker

Restless night

I got very little restful sleep last night. When I first went to bed, the house was still pretty warm, so I tossed and turned for a while before I got comfortable enough to nod off. Then I dreamed a lot. And then, shortly before 3:30 in the morning, I woke up abruptly hearing a momentary burst of noise; it sounded like loud voices over a radio.

Normally I would have brushed this off as the vestiges of a dream, but this time my dog jumped up with me. I don't know if she was just responding to me sitting up so suddenly, or if we both heard the same thing.

But at that point I couldn't just brush it off, and I had been soundly jolted out of sleep, so I grabbed a big flashlight and did a tour of the house, double-checking the screens on the open windows upstairs, the window latches on the closed windows in the rest of the house, and the locks on every door. My dog, after her initial start when I almost fell out of bed, was relaxed. She probably thought I was crazy, wandering around the house in the middle of the night. If anyone else saw the lights going on and off in different rooms, I'm not sure what they thought.

After that I went back to bed, and the dog settled down again on the floor next to my bed, but I lay awake for a long time and just listened to the night until I eventually fell asleep.

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Labels: everyday, imagine yourself here

posted by the alygator @ 10:53 AM