I Entered Another World

 Circadian rhythms are regular changes in mental and physical characteristics that occur in the course of a day (circadian is Latin for "around a day").

I went on a jaunt a week and half ago and my circadian rhythm has been all messed up.

Circadian rhythms can be affected to some degree by almost any kind of external time cue, such as the beeping of your alarm clock, the clatter of a garbage truck, or the timing of your meals. Scientists call external time cues zeitgebers (German for "time givers").

I fell asleep yesterday evening and didn't wake until after dark thirty or thereabouts. I felt re-stored with energy, cooked and ate breakfast and felt an impulse to go out into the night. It seemed to be calling me somehow, like a magnet attracted to steel.
I let my eyes adjust to the darkness for a few minutes before taking small steps into the night. I live in the woods, so to speak, and it's also very quiet so any sounds are magnified. I kept hearing a catfight (breeding) in the background, a coyote howling up on the mountain, and saw about a 100 lightening bugs blinking. The were so bright in the darkness and seemed to be communicating to each other with their flashing. Sometimes there would be a line of them flying and flashing in unison about 10 times. I eased my way amongst the heaviest concentration of them and all of a sudden I was surrounded by green flashing lights, some with sudden bursts and others lit for what it seemed like a second, as the flew past my head but not once bumping into me.
They seemed to be curious about my presence in their space, (or irritated), and came in droves. Soon it seemed like a thousand bright green flashing lights buzzing around me,  I love the solitude and awareness of natural occurance in nature, even the tiniest insect. And now that moment is burned into the hard drive of my mind, forever.

Most circadian rhythms are controlled by the body’s biological "clock." This clock, called the suprachiasmatic nucleus or SCN, is actually a pair of pinhead-sized brain structures that together contain about 20,000 neurons. The SCN rests in a part of the brain called the hypothalamus, just above the point where the optic nerves cross. Light that reaches photoreceptors in the retina (a tissue at the back of the eye) creates signals that travel along the optic nerve to the SCN.

And I think they re-set my clock. I fell asleep soon after and slept for another 6 hours and feel great.