Séance?

One of my good friends is travelling for work but he travels for a month at a time. He has a wonderful wife and 2 beautiful children. I can't imagine being away from my family for that long. The other night we were talking on the phone and we were discussing insomnia. I suffer insomnia in fits and starts. When I travel, I pretty much always have it and then I have it on the weekends sometimes, just based on my overall anxiety. He is now having horrible insomnia, we pitied each other; it was a nice, sharing moment. The fact that I talked to someone for 45 minutes on the phone is a shock in and of itself. Of course the conversation didn't remove the insomnia I am suffering from now. Last night was no different; I managed to fall asleep at 1:30 only to be woken up at 2:20 by the hotel phone ringing. My dead mother was on the phone. She said, and I quote "Arwen Darling, are you ok?" My response was "Yes, Mom, I am fine but I need to sleep now."

I hung up…on my dead mother. I slept like a log.

I woke up this morning remembering the call and was a little shocked I didn't bother to ask her how the afterlife was treating her, let her know I was missing her, tell her about my daughter's perfect report card. Instead I went back to sleep. My next thought was that it was a dream but I remember waking up, sitting up and answering the phone. As I left for the office I stopped at the front desk and spoke with a clerk. I said as innocuously as I could 'I think someone called my room at 2:20 in the morning, can you tell who called me?' I decided not to mention the dead mother conversation. The clerk responded that indeed there was a call at 2:24 and he was so sorry and he gave me 5000 points for the inconvenience.

Huh? Did I just pass up a chance to talk to my dead mom? Fuck! I can only imagine that it would take a considerable amount of energy for a dead person to do something like this, especially if the person she is contacting doesn't believe in the afterlife. I have no idea what actually happened. When I get back to the hotel I am going to ask if they know who called me in the middle of the night. Happy birthday to me.