Burning cars and sleepiness

You know that feeling you get from waking up from a loud noise in the middle of the night. The one that highjacks your flight or fight system and makes your adrenaline seep out from your ears. Now imagine that you can’t roll over and go back asleep but that you have to run downstairs and dress in, what at the time, seems like a really complicated outfit. Oh, and something is on fire. And you have 2 minutes to get dressed in a car that is driving way to fast. I have realized that waking up in the middle of the night for emergency responses really is more heart than brain business. Ripped out of a cozy deep sleep I seem to become…well… dumb. It is not until a couple of minutes later that I really wake up. I asked one of my co-workers about this, the one that frequently drives, if it’s just me or if everyone feels a little disoriented and mentally delayed. He said, “sure, I just make sure before I start driving that I actually know where I’m going”. Oh man…