WOW. Don’t ever fall asleep this way. Dangerous

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So I accidentally passed out around 7 p.m. This was not my intention. I remember listening to Prof. Vaknin on YouTube, all his videos are brilliant. Brilliance is like a lullaby to me. See, I lie to myself. I say, just close your eyes for 5 minutes, that’s all you need. Well, 5 minutes turns into 12 hours. I swear I have some kind of undiagnosed narcolepsy and I somehow slipped thru the system. I’ve spoken on here before about how sometimes sleep just overcomes me, and I barely get a chance to “do all the things” before bed, like blow out the huge scented Yankee candle, check the window, too hot? Too cold? Feed the cats, shut off unnecessary lights, etc. But early last night, I didn’t do any of those things. Just passed out, skipped meds, woke up extremely cold, and here’s where things got dangerous. My window was only opened a little, but enough to catch that cold draft that chills you to the bone. A normal person would just get up and close the window, yes? Then go back to sleep. But my lazy a$$ grabs a little white controller instead, turns my mini-heater on and apparently thinks 98 degrees F would be perfect because I can’t see anyway, and I fall right back asleep. The trouble is this: My door is always 90% closed (for cats), the wind shifted so it’s no longer blowing in, no more fresh air, I have a heater on full-blast, and the fumes of a very strong Yankee candle going in a tightly-closed, small room. All I remember is trying to wake up over and over again, but sleep kept pulling me back into what felt like a coma. It took hours, but I ended up sitting on the edge of my bed, dazed out of my mind, thinking I don’t know if I’m dreaming, awake, dead? I think I’m dead. The cats were all pacing around, I fed them but couldn’t think of any of their names. I instinctively opened the window all the way, shut off that damn heater, blew out the candle, and within minutes I “came back to life.” All I needed was air. Oxygen. Ever heard of it? Yeah, don’t go to sleep with too little of it. Dummy. This is more like a memo to myself. I don’t want my cats exposed to that, no wonder they were so antsy and kept leaving my room. They usually all just sleep with me, but not this time. Bye y’all I have 7 studies waiting for me but I will wait on that. I’ll get fired after first security check. Have a good Monday Time: 7:55 a.m. Never again