Today, I didn’t feel all that tired, but I used common sense to realize that I needed a nap after cutting sleep for the past few days. Little did I know how long of a nap it would be. In fact, the nap was longer than my sleep for the previous two days combined!
When I woke up, I noticed a profound silence and darkness. It is never particularly loud in my room at all, so I don’t know quite what makes this silence different from the silence at 9 PM or the silence at midnight, but this was the silence of 1-6 AM.
The strange thing about human sensation is that, just like advanced cameras, we automatically scale our inputs relative to each other. This is why flashing lights catch our attention and why sudden bangs in the absolute silence of a horror movie scare us. Because of this, the wee-hours silence isn’t really a silence. It’s just a constant whoosh and hum, supplemented by the whir of my computer and the ticking of my watch – pretty noisy in my perception, but fundamentally soft.
Anyway, that was a nice eleven-hour nap. I ended up missing dinner and of course, not getting any work done, but I’ll get that started now. In place of dinner, I’ll head out in an hour or so and grab a nice big breakfast plate from Sami’s!
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