Time travel unlocked.

[ApolloSZ]

So. Last night I got home approx 6 pm. Note, being summer we get sunlight fairly late at night.
I was rather tired, and crashed out on top of my bed with music playing, and dozed off.

the chain of events followed thusly

I woke up to hear a flat mate going down the stairs.
I also notice its light outside, yet i remember going to sleep.
I hear music playing, as if my alarm has been going
I also look at the time and see its 8.30.... I start work at 8.30, half an hours travel away.

I swear profusely

I get dressed in record time and launch myself at the door, thinking, I start at 8.30... work owes me an hour... should be ok...
I see flat mate who by now should be long gone to work at this time of the..... evening?
I then realise, its 8.30pm at night. I've been asleep about two hours.......
I go back to sleep.

[Aethian]

Heheh I use to do that in the middle of winter when I left for work when it was getting dark and got home when it was dark. Woke up one time after a hours or so worth of sleep thought I was running late and tried doing too much in the shower and fell over. Cue Mom coming to see what the hell I was doing up so early when I'm normally dead to the world.

[MaggieTheCat]

I remember once laying down to take a little nap on the couch one evening, maybe around 8-9pm...thought I'd just rest my eyes for half an hour or so...woke up with light pouring through the window at about 7am. I apparently hadn't moved an inch, I was still in the same position I'd fallen asleep in.

Another time, when I was living with my parents, I had been laying in bed reading one evening with the light next to my bed on and a bowl of popcorn next to me. I must have fallen asleep because the next thing I knew, it was morning, my bedside light was off, the popcorn was gone, and the blankets were all tucked around me. One of my parents must have come in and tucked me in.

Both of these I remember distinctly because I'm a light sleeper and usually don't sleep in the same position throughout the night, so I must have been really out both of those times to not wake up once all through the night.

[PepperElf]

i've had that happen...

back in the old apartment i've woken up in the middle of the night, thought i was late to work and started getting ready, only to realize it was still the previous day...

course it didn't help that i normally drove to work in the dark cos i had to be on the road by 0610 or so to get to work on time by 0730

[ApolloSZ]

Maggie - I've fallen asleep with the book I was reading ending up over my face.
Mum has the picture for proof.

[Green_Fairy]

i once got halfway to school before i realized it was a saturday and i'd forgotten to turn off my alarm. i ended up going anyway and just chilled in the library for a while and studied. got a call from my dad a few hours later wondering where the hell i was.

[SuperRTL]

My husband will never forgive me for this but I still find it absolutely hilarious.

I was pretty much dead asleep at 4am on a Saturday. For some reason, I woke up just enough to shake his shoulder and say "DH, DH, you're going to be late." He got up, took a shower, got dressed and made it to the car before he realized it was 1. Saturday 2. 4:30 am and 3. I was still asleep. He came back inside and laid back down but couldn't go back to sleep. I still have no idea what I thought he was going to be late for or why he agreed with me.

[alcaholjunkie]

That reminds me of one of George Carlin's routine thingies where he's on about Our Similarities.

Do you ever fall asleep on a late afternoon, and wake up after dark, and you don't know what god damn day it is?"

(video of it is easily found online for those who may want to see it, has other things that seem daft like that ^_^ funny and now i'm ranting again, lol)

[dalesys]

My parents have (3) photos of different elder siblings "babysitting" sound asleep in a chair with the baby du jour teetering on our knees. (Yes, I'm one of the elders)

[Plaidman]

I got two stories. One I had work swing shift, which is 2pm to 10pm. I got home around 11, so dead tired that I fell alseep. I woke up at 6. I swore. I screamed. I dialed work number and got boss. I shouted I was sorry I was so late, I'll be there soon, please don't fire me, hung up and raced to get to bus. Phone called again. It was boss. I wasn't late. It was 6am. Not 6pm. I went back to sleep.


Another one is more freaky. It was late one saturday night. I was leaning against the wall on my bed, watching TV. I looked outside and saw it was dark. I turned back to TV, and saw a completly different show. I looked back outside, and saw it was bright day. I somehow skipped about 9 hours in a blink of an eye.

[AccountingDrone]

Another one is more freaky. It was late one saturday night. I was leaning against the wall on my bed, watching TV. I looked outside and saw it was dark. I turned back to TV, and saw a completly different show. I looked back outside, and saw it was bright day. I somehow skipped about 9 hours in a blink of an eye.

Jebus, I do that right now if I am not careful... one of the sets of meds I am on makes me do that. I can be watching one program, close my eyes and next thing I know it is an hour or so later ... very confusing it there is a specific program marathon on ... makes for very confusing story lines starting one program and finishing a different one!

[bainsidhe]

I've done that too! Boy do things get messed up when you're tired. One time I woke up thinking I was horribly late for work and was crying because I was so sleepy. I'd only been asleep for an hour. Wow I was out of it. That's what working overnights while attending college can do to you, I guess. I had a hard time doing overnight shifts.

[greek_jester]

And this is why I bought myself an alarm clock that I have set to display on 24 hour mode with the day and date, & synchs with the radio signal from the Greenwich clock so that it automatically adjusts between GMT & BST. It even has a projector thingy that will display the time on the ceiling or the wall (depending on where I aim the arm) if I press a button when it's dark - very useful with my blackout curtains!

[powerboy]

I've done that. I was asleep and it was a Sunday, a day that I don't work. I woke up from a sound sleep. Looked at the clock and thought that I had to be at work and that I was late. Got dressed, drove to work and wondered where every one was. realized that I was not suppose to be in. decided to go and get some breakfast.

[telecom_goddess]

Another one is more freaky. It was late one saturday night. I was leaning against the wall on my bed, watching TV. I looked outside and saw it was dark. I turned back to TV, and saw a completly different show. I looked back outside, and saw it was bright day. I somehow skipped about 9 hours in a blink of an eye.

Oh THAT one freaks me out.....