clock poltergeists
Dec. 7th, 2011 08:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaI have noticed clock poltergeists in my life before (thank you ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gurdymonkey for giving me such an expressive term for the phenomena), but normally they sneak in while I am working or reading or working on a project and change the clock so that it says some number which claims that far more hours have elapsed than I think. This morning it happened while sleeping. lord_kjar is one of those people who set the alarm early(ish) (06:00) and then press the snooze button a bunch of times before actually waking up. I usually don't need that, so I have my dawn light set for 06:40, and some mornings I am already doing my morning situps when his first alarm goes of.
Other days his reaching for the phone to press snooze the first time is what wakes me and prompts me to start my situps, and still other days when his first alarm goes off I snuggle up to him and get a few minutes more sleep, and don't start my situps till he has pressed snooze several times. However, on those days I am at least aware that time is elapsing and that he is moving enough to pick up the phone, push the button, and put it back where it rests. This morning I recall looking at the clock when his alarm went off at 06:30, reaching over and sort of sleepily caressing his head/shoulder and thinking I would sleep for a bit longer.
The next thing I knew I was waking up from a fascinating dream sequence where we had been at an SCA event and the Crown (some King I do not recognize in waking life) was, during court, praisinglord_kjar for his prowess in battle earlier that day*, and placing a single coin in his hand for every victory, naming the opponents as he did so (I am not clear if the battle had been a tournament or war or...?). In the dream I thought that it made for lovely court theater. After that the Crown announced that he had just presented lord_kjar 100 coins (note that only about three of them were actually presented with names in the dream, the rest happened "off camera", but that if he would consent to join the King's own household and fight in his war unit then the King would present him with 1,000 coins. lord_kjar then met my eyes and without words very eloquently asked me my opinion on the matter, which led to a lull in "real time" wherein he and I could discuss this without interrupting court in progress or the audience being aware of our conversation. I know that I told him I was good with it if he was, but I acknowledged that I am more used to being in Fealty than he is.
Before the conversation ended and court resumed with his reply I woke up to the reallord_kjar telling me that it was 08:00 already! Between 06:30 and 08:00 I was so deeply asleep that I never heard his alarm again (though it may have contributed to some of the background sounds of court), nor felt him reaching to turn it off. I must have needed that sleep. Good thing I am in academia--I am normally at work by 08:00, but this morning that didn't happen. By the time I did my situps, had my muesli and frozen raspberries for breakfast, read the small handful of lj posts that have appeared since last I checked before choir practice last night, and typed up this post it is nearly 09:00, and so I must turn off the computer and head to work, where I will likely stay a bit longer than usual to make up for the late start. (Note: he was out the door before I even finished my situps.)
*note also that in the real world we still haven't finished building armour forlord_kjar, yet in the dream it was perfectly normal/expected for him to have done well in combat
gurdymonkey for giving me such an expressive term for the phenomena), but normally they sneak in while I am working or reading or working on a project and change the clock so that it says some number which claims that far more hours have elapsed than I think. This morning it happened while sleeping. lord_kjar is one of those people who set the alarm early(ish) (06:00) and then press the snooze button a bunch of times before actually waking up. I usually don't need that, so I have my dawn light set for 06:40, and some mornings I am already doing my morning situps when his first alarm goes of. Other days his reaching for the phone to press snooze the first time is what wakes me and prompts me to start my situps, and still other days when his first alarm goes off I snuggle up to him and get a few minutes more sleep, and don't start my situps till he has pressed snooze several times. However, on those days I am at least aware that time is elapsing and that he is moving enough to pick up the phone, push the button, and put it back where it rests. This morning I recall looking at the clock when his alarm went off at 06:30, reaching over and sort of sleepily caressing his head/shoulder and thinking I would sleep for a bit longer.
The next thing I knew I was waking up from a fascinating dream sequence where we had been at an SCA event and the Crown (some King I do not recognize in waking life) was, during court, praising
lord_kjar for his prowess in battle earlier that day*, and placing a single coin in his hand for every victory, naming the opponents as he did so (I am not clear if the battle had been a tournament or war or...?). In the dream I thought that it made for lovely court theater. After that the Crown announced that he had just presented lord_kjar 100 coins (note that only about three of them were actually presented with names in the dream, the rest happened "off camera", but that if he would consent to join the King's own household and fight in his war unit then the King would present him with 1,000 coins. lord_kjar then met my eyes and without words very eloquently asked me my opinion on the matter, which led to a lull in "real time" wherein he and I could discuss this without interrupting court in progress or the audience being aware of our conversation. I know that I told him I was good with it if he was, but I acknowledged that I am more used to being in Fealty than he is.Before the conversation ended and court resumed with his reply I woke up to the real
lord_kjar telling me that it was 08:00 already! Between 06:30 and 08:00 I was so deeply asleep that I never heard his alarm again (though it may have contributed to some of the background sounds of court), nor felt him reaching to turn it off. I must have needed that sleep. Good thing I am in academia--I am normally at work by 08:00, but this morning that didn't happen. By the time I did my situps, had my muesli and frozen raspberries for breakfast, read the small handful of lj posts that have appeared since last I checked before choir practice last night, and typed up this post it is nearly 09:00, and so I must turn off the computer and head to work, where I will likely stay a bit longer than usual to make up for the late start. (Note: he was out the door before I even finished my situps.)*note also that in the real world we still haven't finished building armour for
lord_kjar, yet in the dream it was perfectly normal/expected for him to have done well in combat