3 a.m. jokes with rum phosphenes🎞
- Anjali Gupta
- May 21, 2021
- 3 min read
3.55 a.m.: I woke up suddenly. I could hear the blare shindy of dogs. I live on the 16th floor, but the tough dogs make their household quarrel reach high above. They make it happen VERY well.

I flicked on the lights after lying in bed, shutting my eyes and glaring at the phosphenes. I switched the yellow focus lights right above my bed and thought, what should I do now.
I got all dressed up for the first time at 4.30 a.m.
Note it, people, I got ready at 4.30 a.m. and that is how you achieve milestones.
*Applauds
I unbolted my heavy door. Nah, kidding. There is no way. I can’t unbolt while I’m fully awake, even in deadly hours, so how would I unbolt a door as light as a feather at such an early morning when I feel dopey that I got up.

No one was awake.
The quietness I felt was, as I call it, “THE shh SILENCE”.
When every creature and thing is hushed.
Sun hadn’t shown its pretty face yet.
I thought about what I could do. I wanted to feel more of my enthusiastic, effervescent self rather than being lackadaisical.
I journaled because I hadn’t last night, and then I decided with all my credence that I would do a task that I was assigned two days ago that I had been procrastinating on.

This hideous piece of work is called “math homework”.
Never have I ever had more faith in myself than that early hour’s dizzy decision.
I did all the algebra I loathe. I did it. All the “(a+b+c)(a^2+b^2+c^2 -ab-bc-ca)=” blah blah blah. I don’t get, I don’t get why algebra (and its perplexing identities) are so vital that they teach us every year. Have you ever seen a person in your life casually solving a hundred numbers with letters?

If you have, then let me put this straight out on the table. You have seen paradoxical things, and I’m concerned that you might be living in a “shutter island”. Did you meet Teddy Daniels?
Moving on from my lame jokes and algebra struggles.
5 a.m.: I blithely trotted down the stairs and sought to find some friction. I found some, thank goodness! It could be utterly mournful if I slipped with the grey socks that I had been wearing, although it is summer.
There they were! (my parents) In the balcony sipping tea with the lovely clouds. I got to perceive the headlines of May 18th. Not many solemnly, because I was swamped scrolling through this incredible social media app, Instagram.
*Regrets
I don’t know which fairy got inside me, some brain glitches took place, and I asked Alexa to play “Sad Songs”. I was wholly happy. I ask Alexa to play sad songs because I like the songs in that playlist, and they aren’t as miserable as they may sound.
6 a.m.: I learned that I had school at 8.30. So, I wanted to do everything right there in those two and half hours.
After two hours of junk: I was sitting in my home library reading ‘Theodore Boone’ by John Grisham.
I had wasted two hours listening to songs, texting my friend, and doing random things.
I did everything. But “everything”.
Theodore Boone is a 13 -year-old person who solves a murder mystery. I said “person” because he definitely can’t be called a “kid”; he is intelligent and clever enough. Plus, it would be an irony if I referred to him as a kid. LOL.
I was reading the 4th chapter because this book is my substitute book.
Let me do the explaining now.
I read novels, finish reading them, and then when there is a specific time gap in which the book I ordered is being delivered, I read this book.
I have this rule for my decorum.
I cannot go a day without books.
*Idiotically perks
When I dramatically looked at the clock and ran upstairs like a flash. I opened my laptop and realised that economics was the first period.
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There are those mornings that feel like nights, you know? You rub your eyes, and rum colours pop in your eyes; Phosphenes.
You want to sleep, but you aren’t able to, and all your brain says is, “No, wait, like now?”
May 18th was like that. And I am as sure as eggs is eggs.
Imagine that you woke up at 3.55 a.m., what would you do?
The "what" that you will get in the answer is what you probably should do right now.
Do it without thinking if it is bizarre. You need somewhat of 3 a.m. and rum phosphenes.
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Well!! Mr. Insomnia don’t let me sleep properly most nights but when I do get some sleep and wake up early before everyone else....I wear my ear pods and go for a long walk listening to my favorite songs.....it’s quite relaxing I must admit....