Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Suddenly awake

Dreaming, asleep.

Suddenly awake with a black furry demonically-horned face even with mine.

The "pad-pad-pad" sound of his feet on the mattress pounding into my brain microseconds after the visual impact.

I scream. "Startled" almost comically inadequate to describe the instantaneous jolt that seizes me top to bottom.

Then just as suddenly I realize it's simply Smacky. I'm in bed. He's sticking his nose into my face. I reach up and chuck him under the chin. He purrs.

And even though adrenaline had shot through my body just now, and there's a tightness in my chest, my heart... is not pounding. My breath does not come in gasps.

The quickness of the total transition, from sleep, to startled, to post-startled, taking far longer to describe than it actually happened.
• 2:32 AM

Comments:
i get this same rousing about 3 times a week, but instead of a cat, i awaken to a 4 year old with his nose centimeters from mine, breathing in my face....he thinks it's 'fun' ;)
# posted by Blogger bree :: 9/26/2006 8:35 AM
 
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