This happened a while ago, but it's too priceless not to share.
My alarm1 usually wakens me at 7am on weekdays. I give myself an hour to shower, get dressed and do hair/makeup2 before I have to leave at 8am to be at work by 8:30am. Like most everyone else I check the clock every so often to make sure I still have enough time to get ready.
So on this particular morning my alarm went off as usual and I reached over and turned on my lamp. I lay there for a few minutes before I forced myself out of bed and began my normal routine.
I went through the regular steps making, what I thought was, good time. I had just finished touching up my makeup and decided to check the clock again to make sure...
I look at the clock...and it's bright red digital numbers read...
Four o'clock in the morning!?!
Ok, had to be a joke right?! Chaz playing a trick on me?! I stared dumbly at the clock like it was going to do one of those number-spin things in the movies. But no...no, it happily ticked to 4:01am, oblivious to my hope that I really wasn't that air-headed.
So yes. I had woken and gotten completely ready for work an entire four hours before I was even supposed to. I have no idea how I woke up thinking my alarm went off3 or why the numbers on the clock appeared perfectly normal to me.
Of course I sat there for a while, still in disbelief, before I finally just went back to bed. What's weirder is that I had gone to bed around 1am so I had only had about two hours of sleep! I'll never know why my mind played that cruel joke on me.
If the early bird gets the worm, there sure as hell wasn't one for me!
Meh, worms are gross anyway. But I'm sure I'm not the only one who's had this experience...
Hurrah! I’m not alone.
Note that it actually did not ring, my mind just thought it had.
Because I lay in bed for a while, play with my cat, talk to Chaz who usually is just getting home from work (night hours) and generally take my time. I can totally do the 15 minute thing, I just discovered I’m much more relaxed in the day if I wake up earlier.