Day 21 - nightmares

I think either i got sick or i'm just still tired from the weekend's amazing craze.

So i had a really hard time getting up today... and fell asleep in every single lecture there is: lab lecture at 8am, ochem lecture 9:30am, and even study group lecture from 1pm - 3pm. Sadly i even took naps between ALL those lectures. No luck. And i still fell asleep in my classes. And i still had to take a nap of 4 hours back home...

My highlight - in a way - of the day... were my nightmares that haunted me while i tried to sleep in Staley 105 between my two morning lectures...

So there i was, sleeping on one of the many reddish brown chairs of stanley lecture hall. My new Cal sweatshirt's hoodie nicely covered up half of my face. And as i hear light breathing from brother K and J to my right napping, i too, found myself half-asleep.

Suddenly, I hear brother K and J get up and come over to poke me in the shoulder. "Hey its about time. Let's go to lecture" i could hear the footsteps of other students coming into the hall... I could hear the murmurs of other students coming in. i could even see the silhouettes of brother K and J standing next to me. But i just couldn't wake up. My heavy body wouldn't let me open my eyes. And i was very aware that i can't wake up. As if my motor muscles were paralyzed, i couldn't even make myself take a complete deep breath. I could only see the brothers walk out of the room while i screamed in my head "WAKE UP!! SOFIA, WAKE UP!! GET UP!!!!"

And my panic perhaps worked... My nightmare jumped to yet another odd scene.

Up in Stanley lecture hall, I see Kelly sitting at a table tutoring two female students ochem. (is she even a science major?) Finally "woken up", I jump up the stairs, thinking that since i missed lecture i might as well get tutored. As i sit down, i began to feel drowsy... "no... not again.... i cannot fall asleep again. i need to hear the explanations of the substitution reaction 2 that occurs by back side attack and creates a stereoisomer different from the one created by front side attack and..."

...and i began to nod my head off almost immediately my hand attempted to write on my notebook. i can still hear Kelly's voice... I can still hear one of the student's confused voice... but i just can't make my hand move and scribble down a word. I even hear Kelly pick up her phone to talk about some kind of planning. But i was shut dead. I was aware of the noises and the shadows of people around me. But i'm sitting there stoned by my own sleep instinct, shut down from the inside and i see an image of a inner-me punching an imaginary door wake up!! wake up!! get up!! get up!! YOU NEED TO PAY ATTENTION!!!

... and then brother K kicked my foot. I woke up. It's 9:30am and it's time we go to our actual ochem lecture...

Brother S, J, K, J and sister C all laughed at the nightmare that haunted me during the half an hour nap in stanley hall. And, as i mentioned earlier, i still fell asleep during ochem lecture...