"Shadow Beast (Self Portrait)" by Richard F. Yates

in drawings •  6 years ago  (edited)

Got to bed at around 3:00 A.M. last night after a particularly shitty day of work. Woke up this morning at 7 (friggin') A.M., with my head telling me that I was running late...

And now I feel like a fuzzy shadow beast stuck somewhere between multiple dimensions---but not fully phased into any of them. I drew this self portrait to express my feelings of disconnected micro-sleep numbness (and hunger for sugar.) (Actually, I was just trying to draw a fuzzy monster, but when I finished, I said to myself, "Yep, that's how I feel right now...")

Some of you may be asking, "Why don't you just go back to bed?" Naive... So naive... I have DECADES of experience with HYPER-BRAIN SYNDROME, and I've come to recognize when I'll be able to fall back to sleep vs when I won't. Chances are, I'll try to take a nap later on today---but the Gods of Irony will see me and send some kind of distraction or disturbance to keep me awake.

Maybe I'm MEANT to be in this semi-dreaming state today so that I can more easily receive some kind of revelation!? I'll keep my eyes open for that... Meanwhile, I'm gonna go grab a cup of coffee and a cinnamon and brown sugar Pop Tart!

---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

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