Celestial Music

A funny thing happened to me the other month.

I was in the realm before waking, but not asleep.

Celestial music filled my room, the most beautiful music ever, and it was very loud.

Now, I live next door to elderly, sometimes cranky, people who I generally worry are particular about how loud my music is.

I worry enough and was sleepy enough that I had a brief but ridiculous discussion with myself in bed whether I should turn down the celestial music.  Sleepy enough not to realize the impossibility of this and yet in bliss from the music, I made the difficult decision to jump out of bed to turn it down.  In the seconds before I got up I remember thinking maybe medium volume would be an ok neighborly compromise for music so transcendent, so beautiful.

Of course, the music stopped as soon as I popped up.  I was sad for days.