Weird little thing...
Dec. 5th, 2007 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eregyrnI had a weird dream experience this morning. I'm not going to bore you with long descriptions of dreams, I promise. But here's the deal: I was dreaming, and in the dream I heard a loud electronic BEEP. Soon after that, I heard the BEEP again. Somehow, I didn't incorporate this into the dream I was actually having -- I backed out of that dream, to a point where I knew I had been dreaming... and heard the BEEP a third time. At which point, I woke up entirely, and realized that I'd still been dreaming for a moment there (after the first two beeps).
Being aware of having woken up, my first thought was to wonder if what I'd heard was my clock-radio alarm going off (I have it set to "radio", but perhaps I'd set it wrong and it was on "alarm", although I was immediately aware that the beeps I'd heard sounded nothing like what my radio's alarm sounds like). I rolled over to see that it was 7:19 -- too early, my alarm goes off at 7:29. So I laid there thinking that, well, I'd heard the BEEP repeat itself in the dream/s at regular intervals, so it should happen again soon and I'd be able to pinpoint where it was from.
The odd part is: it didn't happen again. As I laid there thinking about what it might have been (it didn't really sound like the beep of a fire-alarm for which the battery is low; it sounded a little like the beep my cellphone makes when *its* battery is low, although a bit more crisp than that; it sounded very close and very loud), it didn't repeat itself. I didn't hear anything for 10 more minutes until my alarm went off as normal.
I pretty much *never* do that thing where you think you've woken up but you're still dreaming. (Yes, I sometimes wake up disoriented, thinking that the details of my room that I can see in the dark are "wrong" somehow, but that's different.) And I can't for the life of me figure out why I would have dreamed this "three electronic beeps waking me up" if they didn't actually *exist*. So I'm a little weirded out by it.
Being aware of having woken up, my first thought was to wonder if what I'd heard was my clock-radio alarm going off (I have it set to "radio", but perhaps I'd set it wrong and it was on "alarm", although I was immediately aware that the beeps I'd heard sounded nothing like what my radio's alarm sounds like). I rolled over to see that it was 7:19 -- too early, my alarm goes off at 7:29. So I laid there thinking that, well, I'd heard the BEEP repeat itself in the dream/s at regular intervals, so it should happen again soon and I'd be able to pinpoint where it was from.
The odd part is: it didn't happen again. As I laid there thinking about what it might have been (it didn't really sound like the beep of a fire-alarm for which the battery is low; it sounded a little like the beep my cellphone makes when *its* battery is low, although a bit more crisp than that; it sounded very close and very loud), it didn't repeat itself. I didn't hear anything for 10 more minutes until my alarm went off as normal.
I pretty much *never* do that thing where you think you've woken up but you're still dreaming. (Yes, I sometimes wake up disoriented, thinking that the details of my room that I can see in the dark are "wrong" somehow, but that's different.) And I can't for the life of me figure out why I would have dreamed this "three electronic beeps waking me up" if they didn't actually *exist*. So I'm a little weirded out by it.
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Date: 2007-12-05 08:42 pm (UTC)There's also something annoyingly coincidental about the idea of something that can beep just long enough to wake you up, and then stop as soon as you *have* woken up enough to listen for it and make sense of it. I *hate* that. (I mean, I know it's possible, whatever the noise is; but what a pain...)
(I take your meaning, though, about how the actual seeming intervals between the beeps may have been quite different than what they seemed to be in the dream/s.)