Counting The Sheep

I don’t really know how this idea originated, but this is one of those sentences that normally are said right after someone says that “can’t sleep!”. And as I write this, I realize that the difference between sheep and sleep is one letter.

What happened to me last night and today pretty much deserves to be written down here, specially since the image above was taken and sent to me today by my friend who was visiting the Pyrenees and she had no idea that I thought about counting sheep last night. 

After my attempts to sleep, I wrote on Facebook that “Can’t zzz…” and as you can imagine one response was of course to “count sheep”. Because I had already tried to sleep several times, my response was exactly what the image shows, or at least that’s exactly what I imagined: a bunch of sheep in a field, so I responded that “They are all on the other side of the fence already!”

For some reason the way all this happened, I feel like it was in a dream. In fact, the “dream” continued during the day as I happened to find yet another group of sheep that where inside a fence. And I could not help but take a picture.

All this may give me more room for new thoughts about this, and perhaps more room for writing about it. To begin with, I will have to figure out if the sheep outside the fence jumped inside or if it was the other way around!