The Drums
This is a true story...
Thursday morning I woke up at 5:10. I thought I heard drumming. I got up, I turned off my fan and I held my breath as I listened. I heard nothing. It was absolutely quiet. I laid back down and I heard the drumming again. I realized that it must be in my head and so I forced myself to lie there until I fell back asleep.
Friday morning I awoke at 5:10. Again I heard the drumming. This time I repeated the previous day's performance with the same result. Am I going insane?
The weekend passed without incident. Monday and Tuesday I slept just fine. Last night I dreamed a series of bizarre nightmares - none of them so terrifying that I woke up in a cold sweat, but each one left a residue disturbing enough that when I awoke at 5:10 on the nose to the sound of drums that I closed my eyes and prayed that I wasn't indeed losing my mind.
The sound that I hear is an incessant pounding. It is not music, but noise. And for some reason it reminds me of Poe's poem, The Bells. I have written a similar piece, but my mental prose is titled The Drums.
12 Comments:
Could be worse- you could be waking up to the sound of the people upstairs, as I am! LOL I'll take drums ANYDAY! :)
Hmmm....interesting Eddo. Drums......be happy, could be cynbels(sp)
Love the new look eddo. :)
Drumming huh? Think it could be a spiritual thing?
hmmm did you suffer a blow to the head? Are the nerve endings in your ear transmitting electrical impulses to the cochlea to the brain, which is interpreting the impulses as drumming?
Just curious, usually it causes ringing, but Dr. Mom says it could be caused by prolonged stress or traumatic life events you have been subjected to over the previous period. hee hee!
Just thought I would diagnose, take two tylenol PM's and call me in the morning. Love ya!
But, I'm curious about the time. Why 5:10 each time? Hmmm...
at least your friends don't come over and start stamping on the floor because they know waking you up will make you uber-cranky.
Maybe it's the state bug of Delaware, as noted on Impatient Chicken's site.
The "males attract mates by drumming".
Let's hope it's the bug then. geesh!
eddie i think your internal alarm clock marches to it's own beat, the drum beat
or
maybe you secretly wish to be in a drum line, cranking out a funky beat and dancing on the 50 yard line
Although I'm usually witty and friendly, I want to tell you that the sound of blood or pulse or whatever sometimes makes a drumming noise in my head. I don't have high blood pressure, and while your sleeping is strange, added with the constant time it happens...hmm...but still...think of it medically ok? (your ear drums really do make drumming noises, i can make the noise happen) again, sorry for the seriousness of this comment...sigh
Jumanji?
Ha ha Steve - I did just watch Zathura - which was created by the creators of Jumanji - so maybe that does explain it. Am I living in some board game fantasy world?
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