I looked at the clock on my bedside cabinet, 4:17am, no time had passed! I couldn’t believe it, I was sure I’d managed to go to sleep that time, even if it was only for 10 minutes.

Why tonight of all nights? I’ve got to give an important presentation at work tomorrow and I need to be as awake as possible. I even went to bed early, that was probably my mistake, I shouldn’t have deviated from my normal sleep pattern.

If I hadn’t gone to bed early I’d be asleep right now, I wouldn’t even realise there was such a time as 4:17am. How is it still 4:17am? I think I might be going a little bit mental, it’s probably stress affecting the part of my brain that percieves the passage of time.

Maybe if I just relaxed, I could still get 3 hours sleep in before I really had to be up, that’s plenty, 3 hours would be enough to wow my boss this afternoon.

14 hours later I was to discover that I wasn’t going mad, my clock was broken.

This discovery led to a mental breakdown and at 4:17am the next day I was declared insane.