Sometimes I’ll
have a dream that I’m sleeping.
Sometimes in that dream, my dream-state alarm rings, waking me in my
dream and in real life. At that point, sometimes I’ll realize that my
real alarm hasn’t really gone off yet, and in fact I still have another five
minutes left before it’s actually time to wake up. I
usually spend the next five minutes complaining with groggy bitterness to myself
about the lousy morning handoff, and about how the two alarms could do a much better
job at synchronizing. On the bright
side, I’m guessing that the five minute lead the sleeping alarm provides
ensures that my slumber-state self is always on time to my dream job.
