the best defense of a wacky sleep schedule is ... itself.

[cimorene]

I love when my wife's phone rings while she's asleep, and I start thinking all indignantly, "They woke her up!" ... and then she answers it and her entire contribution to the conversation consists of faint "Mrr" noises such as those made by a cat. A typical conversation, on her end, is like:

"Mmmm?"
...
"Mnnnngr."
...
"Gm nggn."
...
"Nnnnph. Umn."

(Then she hangs up.)

(Then later someone from her family asks didn't she tell me that she agreed to X, Y, and Z and this is probably why she didn't, because the entire time she was still in Dreamlandia, urgently rescuing a goat from Adam Lambert's evil clone with the aid of Igor the snake, or something.)

Comments

[foursweatervests]

Heh heh! This is probably so fun to witness, and so confusing for her afterwards. "When did I talk to you? Uh huh. And, uh, what did I say I'd do? Ohhh. So that's why I haven't seen you for three days. Are you still at the airport?"

[cimorene]

She doesn't forget *that* completely; I think she usually remembers right before whatever she agreed to do, sometimes only thanks to being called and reminded by said family members again though. But a lot of times it's like "Oh! I have to go pick up my brother's car today. Are you coming? ...Oh I'm leaving in fifteen minutes." ...Of course if it's something complex she's too sleepy to grasp how the details fit together at the time.

[foursweatervests]

Well, you know what they say. If it's not baroque, don't fix it!

[james]

For well over a decade I would answer the phone in my sleep and carry on conversations and the other person would have no verbal cues that I was asleep. my mother started asking me if I was awake and I'd say yes, but of course I wasn't. (In school I napped during the day a lot and then I worked overnights for awhile so I was asleep during daytime hours.)

I think I've either got out of that, or nobody calls me anymore. ;-) Yay for text messaging!

[kay_mulan]

i have conversations like this with my mother all the time!

generally around 7:54 to 8:04, right when she tells me all the stuff i have to do that day as she goes off to work. but apparently (in our dialect) i'm very conversational, and when she comes home later, she's always "but you *said* [this] [this] [this] and then you *said* [this] [this] [this]" and i'm like, oh! that must have been what that part of that dream i can dimly remember was about.