The Good Life in Red

Published by

Clarissa

September 15, 2014

There are several things that symbolize “the good life” for me. One of them is a clock that projects the time onto the ceiling in huge red numbers:

(I took the photo from my bed last night).

Many people would freak out if they had the time hovering above their faces in red all night long. I, however, achieve bliss when I see it. The ceiling just doesn’t look as good when there are no red figures on it:

The funny thing is that my sister has the same clock and she feels exactly the same about it. There must be a psychoanalytic explanation for this obsession with seeing the time hover above one’s bed but I’m too lazy to look for it.

Rate this:

3 responses to “The Good Life in Red”

valter07

September 16, 2014

Interesting… I always found these particular clocks cool. Simply because I do not want to dig my watch or twist my neck looking for other kind of clock if I want to know what time it is when I wake up at night… There used to be a particularly cool version, sold in Discovery stores, which does not simply project the time on the ceiling, it draws it on the ceiling with a moving beam…

LikeLike

Reply
Jones

September 16, 2014

[promptly stifles the 18+ version of why the clock has to display on the ceiling]

Ahem. 🙂

I find bright red and blue LEDs in my room to be annoying enough — I tend to open up electronics to snip the leads or to remove them entirely from circuit boards, at least when I’m not covering them in multiple layers of Sharpie.

Having a fuzzy red object on the ceiling would be worse. Given that my maximum viewing distance sans spectacles is roughly 15 centimetres, it’d look like a fuzzy red blur on the ceiling that shifts just a bit every minute.

But I could “see” why other people would like them … wink wink, nudge nudge …

Ahem. 🙂

LikeLike

Reply
1. Clarissa
  
  September 16, 2014
  
  It took me 15 minutes of intense concentration to figure out the 18+ comment, seriously. Sex in the dark is too kinky for me, but I do not stand in judgment. 🙂
  
  LikeLike
  
  Reply

Clarissa's Blog