half-asleep
It is 1:45 am. The tv is talking to me, but I am talking to myself. Time to go to bed. To think of nothing, and nowhere. To rest up for the day ahead. I start dozing. The tv voices become white noise, far away. The network has finished its day. I am trying to finish mine. So I make the long journey to the bedroom. I am lying in bed. My eyes become stock-still. My limbs are immobile. I am paralyzed. This is what happens when I am half-asleep. Duermevela, a Spanish word that has no exact translation. It roughly signifies the eerie time between wakefulness and sleep. The time when Spirits visit us.
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