Trying2beVegan

The pips of Big Ben ring out through the radio alarm. Ring out the speaker into the ear canals and rattle the tiny bones inside the ear that change those funky waves into something the human brain can comprehend. Some kind of translator from the waveform to the brain form. The human brain trained to switch on in the morning all at the direction of some odd sound-waves some excited particles of air that bump into the one next to them in a sort of sub atomic Mexican wave into my ears waking me from my slumber. The conscious mind taking over from the unconscious, a shift switch a hot bunk handover. The Rem and dreams gone in a flash as the new day starts at the ring of the radio alarm.

What did humans do before alarm clocks? Before bells that would ring out from religious centers to warn of the day coming or impending doom. Was it the call of the cockerel that woke our sleeping ancestors another more natural form of an alarm clock set by the rising of the sun? Did they even need to wake up at a certain time at all? Would there be much rush going back in time, I mean I can’t see what we would have to rush for unless our ancestors were trying to catch the early worm before the early bird, but surely the cockerel would have run that race? Imagine a caveman around the fire with his caveman buddies “I have to get some shut eye fellow cave dwellers, I have to be up early in the morning for the mammoth run” and his fellow dwellers would nod in agreement before turning into their caves for the night. How fast must time have past back then, no clocks to speak of, could days drag if the only fixation and anchor to time would be the rising and falling of the sun the start and end of days. “Man this sunrise to sunset has really felt like 3 sunrise to sunsets” “I know what you mean” would be the compensatory reply to the pessimistic cave man.

Waking up eh? What a funny thing to write about we all do it every day until we don’t.