Spiders and other sneaky things
What does a movie look like to a spider?
I had V playing while puttering this morning after my 9 a.m. nap, and sitting on a footstool I turned to my right and almost picked up the empty coffee-cup that sat next to me, on the baby’s table. But I saw it in time — one of those tan-yellow translucent spiders, only about 3/4″ long. It was perched at the top of the handle where it joins the cup, making a perfect flat spot for a spider exactly that size to sit. It was facing the television. It would have had a perfect view.
Do I have a house-spider that was digging V? And if so, is it angry at me for pausing the movie to write this?
A note to polyphasers with significant others: Beware the Kindly Ones. Sometimes they are more sabotage than the mean ones. My husband, for instance, shut off all my alarms last night when they went off, because I looked like I was enjoying the rest, I suppose. (To be fair, this week has been so stressful with work/school/family that I was nearly physically ill with it by Friday.) I do not doubt the purity of his intentions, but I still made it clear to him that he was risking an ass-whupping if he ever did it again. I even opened my eyes at one point and thought, “Oh, no alarms yet! Great!” and went back to sleep. I overslept two hours. *sigh* Now I get to be tired tonight, and probably have to spend it doing homework too. Yaaaaay.
So yes. Watch out for the nice ones; they may want to save you from yourself!
And if there’s spiders in your house, you may be able to placate them with television. Um. Good television. I wouldn’t show them reality shows or Joss Whedon or anything; they might lay an egg-sack in your nose. I knew a guy that happened to once. ::shudder::
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thanks for using my picture, Oddly enough though I just started meditating about 7 weeks ago. I find this just amazing if i read your stories right .Kind of a confirmation of sorts.
anyway thanks again for using the pic.
I’m not very knowledgeable about polyphasia (is that the correct term?). To be quite honest, I’d never heard of it before reading your blogs. A mildly interesting concept… one of which I cannot even begin to understand the reasoning behind. But hey, it’s your body, your sleep pattern, your life, so do with it as you see fit! But, I have to wonder, in the interest of your ‘significant other’, if these alarms going off with alarming frequency *pun intended* disrupt his sleep patterns at all. I’ll put it this way… I’m a light sleeper and if my husband had alarms going off while I was getting my usual ‘straight eight’, I’d be quite perturbed with him.
As for spiders, I had heard at one time that we are always within at least five feet of a spider throughout our entire lifetime! Thankfully I’m not arachniphobic. ;)
Interesting, about the spiders!
My adjustment period was almost as hard on my boy as it was on me, heh. Of course I tried hard to accomodate him, both with alarms and other things (like snuggle-time, which we don’t get unless I make a point of it).
Now, it’s not so bad. Usually I only need one alarm to wake up, like anybody else (it just goes off at either 1 or 4 a.m., depending on whether I slept at 9 or 1). Sometimes I hit a rocky patch and need to double up on alarms for a bit, but I’ve figured out to put a reeeeally loud one right by my head (which gets shut off immediately) and a quieter one farther away that goes off a few minutes later. Combined with sleeping on the couch so he doesn’t get bothered by me getting up, this works fine for him.
As far as I can tell, living/sleeping with someone else is a compromise and a dance of consideration of each others’ habits no matter what kind of sleeper you are. I know plenty of regular, monophasic sleepers who need more than one alarm, too! ;)
-PD
P.S. We’ve just been calling it “polyphasic sleep”, but I think “polyphasia” is a really cool word! So thanks!