[Tigereyes]

You know that not-quite-awake feeling at the first ring of your alarm on an early morning when you're sleep deprived, so it's a struggle to even open your eyes? That's the most awake I feel all day. But everything's due. So I feel as if I'm in some altered state, but it's not fun. I feel like I'm kind of dissociating--not quite awake, not quite asleep; not quite alive, not quite dead.