Paying Attention to Attention - Part 1 02. One of the hard parts 03. The list, for now 04. (Morning Wake Up Wars): #1: The automatic timer scare yourself awake alarm method 05. More than 2 items needs a list 06. (Morning Wake up Wars): #2: The Ritalin Freight Train Wake Up Routine 07. (Morning Wake up Wars): #3: I used to set my clock radio to the wrong time 08. Other Clocks, Other Times 09. They say Energy Follows Attention 10. The clock tricks went on for years And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. --Raymond Carver from A New Path To The Waterfall |
07. (Morning Wake up Wars): #3: I used to set my clock radio to the wrong time(Paying Attention to Attention - Part 7 - August 5, 2011)I did. On purpose. I'd set it to 48 minutes earlier than for real, for example, then that way, i had to do math to wake up... the alarm would go off and i'd see it saying the time was 6:10 and I'd either be fooled and start getting up, which would take 4 or 5 or 8 snooze bar hits, or, if I was semi human by the time the alarm went off the first time, I'd remember my little trick and do the math real fast, thinking, "hmmm not really 6:10, actually ummmmm... 5:22, so I have time. no sweat!". Then I'd wake again and it would say 7am and I'd think, "oh shit I'm late. Gotta wake the girls for school", and then realize, no... it's just 6:12 (doing semi-sleep math again), which means it just looks like 2 minutes later than the last time I looked, only that time was really... 50 minutes ago (see the math whiz at work)... so I'm cool, etc. Then I'd calculate I could sleep another 5 or 10 minutes, coz then it would be 6:22 and still time, but I'd better not... And all that craziness actually helped me wake up, coz it got my head working on a problem to be solved and created a little crack in the early fog of the day. (I don't do that anymore. Really. Not on purpose, anyway) |
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