I lay there neither awake nor asleep

A laptop computer can make quite a racket. After an hour of, say, idle time the laptop computer prepares itself for sleep. There’s a tiny fan that spins, and the laptop computer’s screen lights up. Little green lights blink as the computer quests for hibernation.

Before going to sleep I’m awake. Tired I start reading, I’m not tired enough to fall asleep on my own. I read for a while and my eyes became too heavy for the next paragraph. I turn off the reading lamp. Still not asleep, not awake, my mind continues reading the story. My eyes are shut, but sentences form as the novel goes on. I’m back in the book with next paragraph to make sense of. I’m flooded with words, dialog and detail. It's different.

If I turn the reading lamp back on to bring the laptop computer out of standby, I know outcome will not be the scene I’d seen (not read). The thoughts I just lost cannot be recorded and saved on the screen when I wake up.

I stop not reading and begin dreaming. In my dream I invent a way to connect my laptop computer to my subconscious. I want these thoughts to be there when I wake up like I typed them to sound true. My eyes are closed and I’m unable to write it down. An hour of idle time the computer turns itself to sleep mode.

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