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Applies to basically every complaint I've ever had.

I've been sketching out little Instagrammable comics here and there, quietly. Thought I'd share this here before posting it. :)

Here's the pre-sketch and the fucked-up-back original, for you process junkies!

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Andy Ihnatko

I went through the exact same thing at my previous house. I had the blinds closed BUT for a month or two out of the year the sunrise could sneak riiiighhht through the narrow gap between the blinds and the window frame. And it was one of those bedrooms where the bed only really works in one spot.

dcorsetto

When I first moved into my house, I put my bed (the actual real one, not this tiny guest bed I sleep on in the winter) in the most obvious and aesthetically pleasing place in the strangely-shaped bedroom. My first night proved that this wasn't going to work without blackout curtains; I live between two churches, and both of them have their big light-up signs shining straight into the windows on either side, directly onto the pillows. Sigh. This is probably part of the reason I don't sleep in there when I don't have to! ;)

NJGR

I tend to hug the edge of the bed as I'm sleeping, too. Maybe sleep with your head at the other end? (Yes, I'm a weirdo and sometimes sleep at the foot of the bed. Neal doesn't get it either...)

MaryAnne Glazar

I'd blame The Cat, because cats always take their half out of the middle, and the human gets pushed to the side. Then The Cat gets up early, and there you are, dangling over the edge.

dcorsetto

You are so sweet to coddle my idiotic tendency to sleep at the edge of the bed!! But, I should probably just learn how to sleep IN THE MIDDLE LIKE A NORMAL PERSON... or get curtains. ;)

dcorsetto

The dumb thing is, Ellie sleeps in the little-spoon part of my body, at the VERY edge of the bed! I didn't even draw her in here because I was afraid the oddity of both of us sleeping there would be too distracting from the point of that last panel. :p

NJGR

If you figure it out, let me know! I sleep as close to the edge as possible for some reason. I never start out that way, but Neal and I both tend to edge toward the sides as we sleep. (This is one reason we don't have a king-size bed, because there ends up being an entire gulf between us in a bed that large.)

MaryAnne Glazar

Years ago I had a cat who would do that. I was always afraid I'd stretch and nudge him off!

Kaz Redclaw

It's probably because the light is going to sweep across the room as the sun moves, and the first time you notice it is when it shines right in your eyes and wakes you up.

Al Plant

A few years ago we had a disastrous ice/wet snow storm before the leaves fell that demolished a large portion of the trees in WNY, including in our neighborhood. The first sunny day our living room got scorched with sunshine that zeroed in on my recliner - the tree that used to block it at the time of year was mostly gone. Hello, dark red curtains (that are not thick enough to do more than cut the rays by 50%). I could not get those up fast enough.

dcorsetto

The interesting thing is, this is a seasonal thing (but maybe that's what you meant?); in the winter the sun pours through the window that's perpendicular to that one, right next to the bed. It's kinda neat to watch the trajectory of the sun change depending on the time of the year. :)

Kaz Redclaw

Both time of year, and time of day. It's going to be more seasonal if you only have a few dots of light coming through. Those dots will only intersect with your closed eyes randomly as it depends on your position as well as the angle of the sun per the season and time of day. An entire window will do it more consistently through the year, but the time will still shift by the season. I have a north-facing window so it's usually my alarm that wakes me instead though, but I remember that issue from when I had a south-facing one.