Soundbyte Psychology

On nights when I sleep six hours instead of three, I almost always spend the time in lucid. It’s a practice I’ve lived for almost a decade. At this point, it is somewhat rare to run into anything “new” in the Dreaming. Because it’s stuck like a thorn in my mind, I have to get it out. This morning, in my main study in the Dreaming, a clock showed up where a book should be on a stand. This isn’t odd, in fact it’s normal. What was not normal was that the clock actually had a time on it that stood still and could be read. It read “11:15″. I had to know, was it the correct time? A clock had never shown the time before. So I woke up, turned on my computer and looked at the time. 11:18. It was a minute or two off. I looked around for a clock, anything I could have picked up the time from, and came away empty. It seems such a small thing, but it is a real anomaly to me as the world of dreams works rather predictably and being able to actually tell time in the Dreaming is not one of those things. Any other walkers reading this, I’d love to hear your experiences with clocks. Do they work for anyone else? I mean, hell, can you even read them?