00:28

Yesterday I was in bed by 22:00, and fell asleep instantly. I woke up sometime during the night in a right panic that I was going to be late for work. Looking over to my digital alarm clock it read 00:28. For the life of me I couldn't figure out what that meant. For some reason the connection between numbers and their representation of time had been severed.

I woke up at the correct time eventually, and was only then able to determine that I must have been completely out of it, because obviously 00:28 meant I had only been asleep for two and a half hours.

I found it interesting to realize how some things are apparently "shut off" whilst sleeping, and how I woke up for that brief moment without that particular process working. I can even still remember what it felt like to look at those numbers and contemplate what they might mean, it felt as if I was missing something important. I guess I was.