It must of been about 6am. I rolled my head on the pillow to take a peek at the digital readout. This was that stupid moment before the alarm went off, when you woke up in anticipation of the alarm, wasting those last precious moments of sleep before you inevitably hit the snooze button anyway.
What I really needed was an 'RETRO' button. A button that could turn back 'time' for 10 minutes. A magic button to take me back into my dreams, back into the lurid day glow of everything that had been before. Into the fascinating thrall of what has already been.
If I had a button like that I wouldn't abuse it. I would intend to wake up eventually and get on with reality. Besides, I'm sure you can't really turn back the clock, you could probably only re-run time over and over again. Wouldn't that be so rad!
I do wonder though, if I kept hitting the 'RETRO' button, how long it would take before I forgot what the future was like because I was so busy living in the past? Maybe I wouldn't even realize there was a future anymore. Maybe i would think the past was the future.
