Somnolence and Hypnagogia walk into a bar...

My vocabulary is growing. Somnolence has a beautiful, soothing sound, as if taken out of a Harry Potter world. It is the clinical term for drowsiness.

Since starting morphine, I’ve noticed that closing my eyes—sitting or standing—triggers a drift into fragmented, nonsensical dreams. I asked the AI. It says morphine significantly alters the "hypnagogic" state, blurring the twilight transition between wakefulness and sleep. Morphine induces notorious hypnagogic hallucinations: vivid fragments that occur while I am technically still awake.

I should be starting chemotherapy really soon. I am "looking forward" to the effects of chemo brain—what Annabelle Gurwitch calls the "unexpected joys" of being a curious bystander to the absurdity.