Catastrophic Cat Naps

Okay it is probably not as dramatic as ‘Catastrophic’ but I have to now restrict my naps to a ‘cat-free’ zone of the house or to be more specific a Bob (cat) free zone.

                To explain this strange turn of events, I have to take you back in time. I was with my long term partner who was a snorer of epic proportions; I was working full time and attending 6 classes a week after work to complete my yoga teacher training. So in summary sleep deprived with too much to do…hey that sounds like now…anyway I would regularly fall asleep on the train on the ride home after my classes.

                One fateful night I lapsed into a semi-coma only to be woken with a start, nothing unusual there, except as I opened my eyes everyone, without a word of a lie, literally everyone in the train carriage was staring at me.  To this day, I am not sure what I did or said but I do know that I tried my best not to fall asleep again for the rest of the journey.

                Since then I have learnt from various friends that I not only snore but I also whimper, cry and talk in my sleep which leads to my current dilemma.

                Bob, I may have mentioned, is a chatty cat. In fact, except when he is asleep, he ‘talks’ all the time. He even mutters away when he is eating. He particularly likes to respond to me when I talk to him.

                So when it comes to cat naps on the couch Bob takes up his usual position on the top of the back cushion. But every time I fall asleep, I am woken by Bob ‘talking’ to me. After a couple of incidents of interrupted cat napping, I realised that I was probably making some sort of noise or taking in my sleep and Bob was dutifully responding to my apparent questions.

So sadly, cat napping and my cat do not mix!....



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