Monday, November 9, 2020

False Alarms

You ever wake up suddenly, ready to save the world?

I'm dreaming. I hear 3 knocks. It wakes me up. I wake my wife up and ask  "Did you hear that?"  No. She never hears it.  I am stumbling around trying to figure out who is at my door. 

Some loud noise, explosion, or earthquake wakes me up...same drill.  Out checking the neighborhood for damage.   I am checking earthquake reports, police scanners.  Internet says hearing that knock in your sleep means someone may die soon....so I am making awkward calls asking friends and family if they are ok...

There I am, thinking I am one with nature. One with the universe.  Dr. Strange, hear to protect your reality. 

A few times it actually was an earthquake, or a limb falling, or a box fell over in the closet. 

The other 5000 times, it was my own ridiculously loud snoring, or obnoxious gas. Loud enough it scared me and woke me up. 

My wife is a saint. 

I figure she is putting together quite the Youtube channel with the footage she must have hidden away. Never laughed or giggled. Just let me go find out what the trouble was. 

Hidden in the Obvious

 Absolutely nothing I say or do is meaningful to anyone else until someone decides it is.  I exercise this daily. Try it.