Glimmer #10: Blue

As I’ve gotten older, and sleep has become more elusive, I have found that any form of light in the room bothers me. So I sleep with a cloth over my hearing aid charger. I only plug in my electric toothbrush during the day so that the blinking light does show all night. There are no nightlights in the house.

Our bedroom has “light blocking” shades and curtains. Nice, silky, dark blue curtains on every window. Luckily for me, my husband is easy going. Because we basically sleep in a bat cave.

Now that I am retired, and it’s only the two humans of us here in the morning, I am sleeping much later. I like to turn over, glance at the time, and drift right back off to sleep.

This is the exact pleasure that I used to dream of, back in my working Mom days. The pure heaven of sleeping until I feel ready to wake up. Ahhhhhhhhhhh.

This morning was like that. I woke up around 5 in the chilly darkness. Pulled the soft blanket back up over my neck and curled up like a puppy. Felt myself drift off, and realized that there was no reason to prevent it.

When I woke up again, it was 8AM. I yawned, stretched and checked the Ring camera. Laughed at the mouse that wandered by in the night. The room was still murky, and the image on my screen was from 2AM. My brain was slowly realizing that it was morning, but the world around me…