Something interesting happened to me while I was sleeping last night.
As we all know it was another hot night and with no air conditioning to help cool things off I rely on my portable fan along with the furnace fan to draw up some cool air from the basement. After tossing and turning with little luck I decided to try laying on my stomach. Sleeping on my stomach used to be my go to position many years ago, but is no longer comfortable. After adding a few small pillows to support my back and my left arm I found a comfortable position and finally drifted off to sleep.
What I didn't expect to happen was falling out of bed. LOL! What? How'd that happen?
I remember dreaming about being asleep and in my dream, thinking about needing to wake up and get out of bed. My dream self was telling me to get up, but I was so comfortable! Get up, do it! The dream actually propelled me for real to roll over and get up out of bed. And suddenly I felt myself falling. In this partially awake state my Kung Fu training took over. I was aware of the need to avoid hitting my head on the corner of the night stand as I tumbled out of bed. (I'm always amazed at how time seems to slow down in certain circumstances while everything around us is occurring at normal speed.) I'm not 100% clear as to what I did as I fell. My best recollection is turning my head slightly and putting up my hands to guard and protect.
After landing with a thud, I picked myself up and did a body check. I had managed to avoid the corner of the stand but still smacked my head somewhat. Awareness, control and response time all helped to lessen potential injury. I though briefly about taking some Advil just in case. Instead I crawled back into bed and took a few moments to send healing energy to the achy left side of my head. I woke up in the morning with no apparent negative effects from the fall.
I still chuckle to myself as I recall falling out of bed and am thankful for my Kung Fu training.
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