Hi Merlin. How's it going?

So early. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was up a lot with a complicated dream last night.

Oh, really? I was remembering my dreams this morning, too.

It doesn't help.

What happened? Oh, I mean, you know, it's brain garbage, so it doesn't really help to explain,

but, you know, it's just the anxiety, because now you're awake. But yeah, yeah, it involved renovating a hotel room with my friend Michael, and we were working with a Vietnamese man in bare feet

who had no toes. And somebody came to our hotel room and they peed in the bathtub and I had to drain it.

Oh, that is anxiety producing.

Well, then it's just like, ah, like, do I want to lay down and try to get back into this dream?

Do I want to try and psych myself into something different?

Should I get up?

And I usually stay, which I probably shouldn't do.

What time is this happening?

Usually around three or four.

I kind of don't mind it as much if it's one or two.

It's when I'm getting within an hour of the wake-up time,

which is at the wake-up time I don't have control over. I feel like I can, oh, if I can go, okay, I just got to lay back now, you know, four hours of four hours of sleep, and I'm going to be fine. Yeah, I'm fine. So I don't know what the solution is. I don't want to renovate a hotel room. No, you don't want somebody peeing in the bathtub?

No, I had to stick my hand in there to drain it as part of the renovation.

All day long, you're going to be washing that hand, subconsciously washing it.

Yeah, I got to get the sleep thing worked out. I got to get better. It's not terrible.

I've been in worse situations, but I can tell that I'm not sleeping enough because I do take naps and they do make a difference.

I want to get to a point where taking a nap is unnecessary or does not make a difference.

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