Letters and Dreams

I had a very tiring weekend, so to say.

I had three hours of badminton game last Friday, one hour last Saturday and two hours yesterday. Amidst all the energy lost in these games, I also lost some sleep time over the weekend. I slept at 2 am on Friday, 4 am on Saturday, and 2 am yesterday.

This is probably the reason why I feel so drained today. Top it off with a helping of parental sermons and you have a perfect mix of life-fatigue syndrome. Midlife crisis? Probably -- if I would consider 54 as my dying age.

Back to feeling drained. As soon as I took my place in front of my computer this morning, I couldn't feel anything but sheer sleepiness. My eyes were droopy and my body was limp. I was practically lifeless.

So I had some editing jobs to do. It is a good thing that proofreading and editing now entails the use of a computer. Otherwise, if it were done on paper, I would have practically struck out all the lines with my pen (which used to happen to me by the way).

While editing, I would find myself in another dimension - the dimension of La la land. It has never happened so often in a day until today. Everytime I try to fight it off, I immediately get lured back to dream state. Yup, dream state. I was actually having dreams during those mini dozes. The funny thing is, all dreams were the same!

Everytime I'd fall off to sleep, I would dream of random letters -- six letters to be exact -- and in my dream I would rearrange them to come up with a word, or words, that are valid. Believe me, this is punishment enough for obsessing too much on Yahoo! Games' Text Twist! I swear, had I not been rearranging these letters in my dream, I would have probably been chased by them.

I used to find it funny how TV depicts people being chased by numbers after a hard day's work in an accounting firm. I really couldn't believe how people could actually see themselves being chased by huge, human-sized numbers. Until today, when I myself am living proof that numbers -- and letters, for that matter -- are as lifesize in La la land as you can imagine.

Y A E M R D ===> D R E A M Y