Dreams & Zombies

It's 1 pm and I just got up for the day. I attribute this to a couple of factors ... well, two factors. The first being that I'm in this huge house all alone (without furniture even) and I have a very over active imagination. There aren't working lights in two of the front rooms yet which really creeped me out the first night I was here. At night, in places that I'm unfamiliar with, I like to have lights on in all the rooms except the bedrooms/bathrooms until I go to bed. I just think it makes me feel more prepared for whatever is out there. I have stayed away from scary shows/horror movies while I've been here because I don't need any help scaring myself any. So I have stayed up late at night trying to put off going to bed since that means all of the lights will be turned off. I also stay up late whenever I'm stressed out/don't like my job in an attempt to put off the next day coming. However, this time, it's definitely being in a new place alone. It'd be fine if they had curtains or working lights. Some of my thoughts have been along the lines of what if zombies suddenly started pounding on the door? What if Zeus suddenly turned into the dog from I am Legend? What if there really is someone standing in the shadows? I've decided I would probably make an excellent writer if I actually had the attention span to match.

So I went to bed at 1am last night only to be promptly woken up at 6am by Zeus. Had I gone to bed at a decent hour, this would not have been a problem ... also if I had not been having such cool dreams, this would not have been a problem. I find that this factor plays a whole lot into my sleeping late. When I first wake up, I remember what I was dreaming about and usually it's pretty awesome - so awesome, in fact, that I then go back to sleep. I usually don't remember what it was that I was dreaming about later that day but they're usually better than some movies. I know that last night I was traveling somewhere with three friends and it was so vivid with checking in and taking an airport shuttle. I need to turn my awake life into as much of an adventure as my dream life appears to be.