Thoughts in the Night

Somehow, I missed this F Minus cartoon when it ran originally:

I guess I'm not the only one who does this. 

I'll dream (or semi-dream? it seems like I'm awake) of some aspect of a real problem in my life that I have to remember to deal with, and keep myself awake — or at least from sleeping soundly — for a while as I worry about it, and wonder if I'll remember it in the morning. 

Sometimes I sit up enough to send myself an email from my phone. That means I can forget about it and go back to sleep, so it's a good solution. I just include a few words to describe it in the subject line.

When I wake up in the morning and look at my emails, what I see there sometimes makes sense, and sometimes has no basis in reality. 

I've heard that cortisol, the stress hormone, peaks in the middle of the night. That checks out, in my experience.