Rich and Strange Aeons

When I haven't had enough sleep, and try to get more sleep in the morning, sometimes odd things happen. Like not having any clear transitions between waking and sleeping, but finding myself with odd memories. Like this morning, where without ever feeling 'asleep' I found myself with memories of a shootout between flying cars. I have no idea what would have inspired that, but presumably I was dreaming in between!

So, as often happens these days, I woke up after four hours of sleep.  I was tired but not easily falling asleep, so I had my phone play the Madoka soundtrack on shuffle very softly as a relaxation/external focus, this sometimes works.  And it did work this time, I slept a lot more today! (finally!)  But...

The dreams weren't stunningly pleasant, but that's okay, I don't remember them now anyway.  Except: in them, I had an MP3 player, and at some point it was getting annoying, so I'd pause it.  But after while it would start up again, on a new track.  This kept repeating in the dream.  (This also seems familiar, not that I trust deja vu senses when it comes to dreams.)

Then I woke up, and noticed the phone was still playing, of course.  So I'm guessing a weird cycle of "pausing the player" in my dream, and then the real phone starting a new track and my brain noticing the change in sensory input and incorporating that into the dream.