Lower Road, late at night
Nov. 15th, 2006 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annwfynLast night I went to bed at around midnight-ish. I climbed into bed, wrapped myself around Jeremiah, and began to doze.
I woke up again at 1 am in a mild panic. I'd forgotten to move my car.
(As a note of explanation, I haven't got round to buying a Resident's Parking Permit yet, and therefore am technically not meant to park on the road outside my house between 8 am and 4 pm)
Anyway, I got up, pulled some tracksuit bottoms on and wandered outside to move the car. It was about 1 am, which is a time I've wandered up and down Lower Road before, but somehow it felt...different.
I don't quite know how to describe it. Somehow, going to sleep for that little while had subtly shifted my perceptions on the world, and now Lower Road felt different. Walking back from McDonalds where I had parked the car had that odd sensation you normally get walking along a strange road, late at night. I felt more nervous about the man standing on the corner, smoking a cigarette. The street lamps felt more garish, and somehow less illuminating. The entire street seemed slightly more dingy, slightly more threatening.
It was a relief to get back into my nice safe house and close the door.
Like I said, it was very odd. I've never seen Lower Road quite in that light before.
I then went to bed and had very strange dreams...
I woke up again at 1 am in a mild panic. I'd forgotten to move my car.
(As a note of explanation, I haven't got round to buying a Resident's Parking Permit yet, and therefore am technically not meant to park on the road outside my house between 8 am and 4 pm)
Anyway, I got up, pulled some tracksuit bottoms on and wandered outside to move the car. It was about 1 am, which is a time I've wandered up and down Lower Road before, but somehow it felt...different.
I don't quite know how to describe it. Somehow, going to sleep for that little while had subtly shifted my perceptions on the world, and now Lower Road felt different. Walking back from McDonalds where I had parked the car had that odd sensation you normally get walking along a strange road, late at night. I felt more nervous about the man standing on the corner, smoking a cigarette. The street lamps felt more garish, and somehow less illuminating. The entire street seemed slightly more dingy, slightly more threatening.
It was a relief to get back into my nice safe house and close the door.
Like I said, it was very odd. I've never seen Lower Road quite in that light before.
I then went to bed and had very strange dreams...
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Date: 2006-11-15 10:09 am (UTC)Seems to have been the night for it.
That perception shift is really wierd, and happens to me occasionally, in the same kind of situation. It normally feels like I've been asleep for hours, and things just feel wrong. It'll either be fuzzy, and wrong, or I'll wake up and be hyper-awake. Everything will be too clear, too sharp, and I'll be straining to find what's not right.
Brains are wierd.
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Date: 2006-11-15 11:24 am (UTC)The road where Mark parks his car behind the flat has similar rules, except for the fact that it charges so much for a permit that they can't afford to get one; this means that come rain or shine, Mark gets up at 8am to drive his car across the city centre to parking elsewhere and then walks back to the flat.
This got very jarring when the warm thing I was sleepily wrapped around decided it was time to get up.
And then he didn't come back to bed afterwards, dammit! >:-(