Less than 4 hours sleep a couple nights ago, the next night before bed I had the weird ‘no sleep’ brain thing going on. You ever do that?
It’s when you’re so tired you have short bursts of numb-nothing thoughts. Experts say the brain on no sleep does things in a similar way to what it does when you’re drunk. Exhausted neurons respond more slowly and send weaker signals. What experts didn’t mention is that it could cause you to dream something ridiculous.
My dream was like a movie.
I was walking outside somewhere with several people I guess I knew because we were talking. Then came a zoomed in, close-up shot of a piece of chewing gum in a silver wrapper. Probably Doublemint because that’s my favorite. I open it slowly and pop it in my mouth. Then, that one slice of gum soon felt like 10 pieces of hubba bubba!
When the gum got so huge I couldn’t keep it behind my lips, I had to start picking it out… gobs of it! I didn’t care that my friends saw me doing it because even that was better than having it burst out of my mouth in some volcanic blast. I spent the whole rest of this dream (who knows how long it was – it felt like hours) pulling gum out of my mouth. No matter how much of that gunk I raked out it just kept growing bigger.
What a waste of brain cells, right? Thing is, when I woke up, I wasn’t thirsty and my mouth felt normal.
Then I had a bad dream that was real.
Always an Apple fan girl, I’m used to trading in phones to get a new iPhone. Apple sends you a box filled with packing and a label already affixed. All you need to do is put your trade-in inside the box provided and shove it in any UPS drop off box… and there’s one just down the street from me.
Trading in a phone to Samsung is an AWFUL experience. They send you an email with a PDF of a label. You have to find your own suitable sized box, print your own label and you have to take it to a FedEx shipping center. You are NOT allowed to drop it in a box… you must get a receipt. The nearest shipping center to me is on the other side of Columbus. ARG!
There was only one perk.
The only good thing about the horrible Samsung trade-in experience is that I spent the afternoon with my son and favorite granddaughter… and we ate lunch.
And then I got lucky.
I was able to secretly catch Ben acting totally goofy — jamming to a song that Coco demanded he not change to something else — and I’m now actively planning a blackmail scheme.
TIL (Today I Learned): Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a disease associated with abnormal deposits of a protein called alpha-synuclein in the brain. These deposits, called Lewy bodies, affect chemicals in the brain whose changes, in turn, can lead to problems with thinking, movement, behavior, and mood.
The reason I learned about LBD is because Robin Williams’ autopsy revealed he had about 40% loss of dopamine neurons and almost no neurons were free of Lewy bodies throughout his entire brain and brainstem — he had Lewy body disease (LBD).