Confusion

After coming home from work this morning, I decided to lay down for a very short 2 hour nap. As usual, I fell quickly into a deep dream state. I always set the alarm on my cell phone to wake me when I need to. After two hours, the alarm went off. I was still very tired, so I pressed the snooze button. What seemed to be twenty seconds later, it went off again...then again...and again.

Knowing I had to pick up my daughter from school at 2pm, I opened one eye and saw it was 1pm. For some strange reason, I thought I was late to pick up my daughter. I quickly sat up, clumsily stood and hurried toward my bedroom to get my keys. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to walk straight and my left shoulder slammed into the doorway. I flung around, stepped on my dogs chew toy, lost my balance fell onto the corner of my bed and rolled onto the floor.

As I lay on the floor, holding my shoulder, I turned my head and looked at the alarm clock on the stand. It showed 1:18pm and that is when I realized I needed to be at her school at 2pm. Not only was I in a little pain, I began giggling when I saw my tiny dog, trying to chew on my left foot. She thought I intentionally went down to play with her.

There truly are benefits of being narcoleptic, although they can be somewhat embarrassing at times. We frequently awake with confusion, occasionally run into things around the house, fall down and get playfully attacked by our animals. I wouldn't miss that for the world...Or would I?