Shifting World

Since my pillow mattress is on the softer side and gives Jfer a back ache, we sometimes sleep in the guest room on her old and hard, albeit smalle, mattress. When I wake up in that room, it often takes me a minute before I open my eyes and realize that I am not in the bedroom. Since the two beds are perpendicular to one another, I get this weird sensation when my subconscious awareness of my environment rotates by 90 degrees and shifts by twenty feet. It's a really freaky thing, too.

I remember as a little kid sometimes pretending that I was laying the wrong way, with my feet towards the head of the bed, and I would try to picture the world around me that way. Later I would open my eyes and everything would be 180 degrees wrong. Waking up in the guest bedroom is similar, except it doesn't happen on purpose and is that much more disorienting.