Time as a reality check

[squirmelia]

Lately, there have been occasions when I have looked at my watch and the numbers have been squiggles. As an almost perpetual watch-wearer (currently feeling like I have accidentally shaved off a limb), I've pressed the buttons and prodded the screen frantically demanding the time back, and only sometimes has it returned. I know this behaviour is not unusual for watches - I once grew fond of a watch that would tell me that it was the 0th day of the month, particularly when I had been drinking.

It was when I remembered that looking at a watch can be used as a form of reality check (popular among lucid dreamers), that I realized that lately a lot of activities that could be construed as reality checks have been failing. Light switches sometimes only cause a flicker, the taps on the bath won't stop the water flowing no matter how hard I turn them, and chairs are often lacking even a vague resemblance to stability. Whether I'm dreaming or whether my world has become increasingly dysfunctional and is wallowing in inconsistency, I still want a boat car, like in Waking Life (and my local cinema even acknowledged that Before Sunset is going to be showing there soon, which is cool).

Comments

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I think the problem I'd find at weekends is that without knowing the time, I'd probably never make it to the bank before it closed, return library books, or manage to catch any trains. :(

[tygerbc.livejournal.com]

I never wear a watch. It's amazing how your time-keeping can improve. You also notice really impressive clocks =) Then again, I rarely lucid dream any more. Did Dali have lucid dreaming in mind, or painting in mind during his lucid dreams? I'm sure it is in a book somewhere.

[squirmelia.livejournal.com]

I'm always kind of unnerved by analogue clocks as it is, not sure I really want to notice more of them! I suppose I always feel like they're taunting me. I dream about painting sometimes, but not usually during lucid dreams.