When I woke up today, I was feeling totally tired and grumpy. Getting out of bed was the last thing I wanted to do. I was definitely not looking forward to this day.

Then, my husband did something that totally changed the course of my day. It was a seemingly insignificant gesture but it worked like magic. Suddenly, I was ready to jump out of that bed, feeling happy and grateful, looking forward to the day!

The Beginnings of a Crappy Day

When my alarm went off, I was feeling incredibly tired and a bit crappy. Hitting the snooze wasn’t enough for me, so I set up a new alarm to wake me up an hour later. After some tossing and turning, I figured, “What the hell, I’ll just sleep as much as I want today” and turned the alarm off completely.

I didn’t have to go anywhere today, so I was free to procrastinate as much as I wanted. However, I had the alarm set up because even though I had the day off, I didn’t want to sleep in.

By the way, I totally recommend a habit like this. (Setting the alarm, I mean, not the procrastination part. ) If you wake up at the same time each morning, even if you have your day off, your circadian rhythms won’t go totally out of whack. Plus it’s rewarding to wake up early… except if you’re really really tired, like I was today.

Careful if You Wanna Wake Me Up

After some more tossing and turning, my dear lovely husband came into the bedroom. That was the last thing I wanted. I knew some major annoyance was about to come my way.

You see, I absolutely hate it when someone tries to wake me up when I’m dead tired and am trying to sleep in. I’m dangerous if you wake me up too harshly. Mess with me too much in the morning and I may end up being angry for the whole day. For example, once my hubby wanted to tease me a bit in the morning, but he made the mistake of overdoing it. He suddenly stormed into the bedroom, turned the lights on, and pulled the covers off of me with one swift movement.

Let’s just say, um, that all hell broke loose. After that one single incident, he never did the same thing again.

These days, he tries to be a little less annoying, just for his own good, but he still manages to irk me big time and he totally knows it. That bastard. He usually opens the bedroom door and begins to sing or chant some really annoying things to get me out of bed. Usually, he makes me want to throw my alarm clock at him.

Yeah. I’m not a morning person.

The Critical Moment of Magic

While I was tossing and turning, feeling crappy and tired, someone opened the bedroom door. Aha! Major annoyance coming my way.

“Wake uuup!”

There he was, my dear lovely husband, standing at the door, resting his finger on the light switch, looking like he was really tempted to suddenly switch the lights on. I’m glad he didn’t.

“I’m horribly tired. Let me sleep.”

“Someone said she was gonna wake up sooo early today! Remember?”

That bastard. Making fun of me. At this point, I was harboring some very violent thoughts.

“Yeah, but I’m really tired.”

I was ready to reach for the alarm clock so I could throw it at him. Unfortunately, that would have required me to get up.

Then he dropped the bomb and did his magic.

“I made some coffee for you!”

What? Did I hear the magic words? I lifted my head off the pillow and had to make sure I got it right.

“Coffee? You made some coffee?”

“Yep, lots of it. There’s a big pot of coffee waiting for you.”

“Aww, thank you honey!”

ZAP! I instantly jumped out of bed, feeling happy and grateful, looking forward to my coffee. No more crappy feelings or violent thoughts. With this very small gesture, my husband managed to totally change the course of my day.

Why Small Things Matter

You may wonder what’s the big deal with coffee.

Well, coffee just happens to be holy and sacred for me. I love my morning coffee ritual so much I sometimes look forward to it at night, when I’m going to sleep! However, the problem is, I hate loading the coffee maker in the morning. No matter how easy and quick it is, it’s still very annoying when I’ve just woken up.

So, if you want to make me incredibly happy with virtually no effort, just make me some coffee in the morning, and I’ll treat you like a king or queen for the rest of the day in return. This is something most of my friends and loved ones know.

My husband, however, rarely does anything like this. He’s totally clueless when it comes to the small things, but he’s learning. When he actually does something like this, it really has an impact. He knows it and does small things like this every now and then, when he figures I need some extra cheering up.

The lesson of this story? Figure out what are the small gestures that can really make or break the day of someone you love. It really can be something as small as making coffee at the right moment. Small things like this are a win-win for everyone involved: with very little effort, you can make someone very happy.

We’ve shared some telepathic experiences before but nothing dramatic. None of the previous experiences had been as intense, as clear, and as strong as this one was.

Actually, I don’t know if our experience was telepathy. It could have been astral travel, too, for all I know. Anyway, I do know for sure it was something fancy, something unexplained, and something that seriously made our jaws hang open for a while.

How It All Began

My husband went out for lunch with his friends while I was staying at home. After lunch, he was supposed to go to work, so I was expecting to have a few hours at home to myself.

I was laying on the couch in the living room, reading a book and listening to some music that was playing on my hubby’s computer. I was facing away from the computer so I wasn’t able to see it.

Freaky Feelings of Presence

Suddenly I had a very strong feeling that my husband was sitting at his computer. I knew it wasn’t possible but the feeling was so strong and so persistent I had to get up and take a look at the computer, just to make sure there was no one at it.

Of course there wasn’t. I continued reading my book.

The feeling of presence, of my hubby sitting at his computer, lasted for a minute or so. The feeling was so intense I had to get up a couple of times again to look at the computer. I felt stupid doing so but the feeling was so strong I was afraid I was losing my mind. Was I going crazy? Was I hallucinating or something?

Next, the worst-case scenarios kicked in. What if something had happened to my hubby? I’m a paranoid worrywart who’s incredibly talented at cooking up the juiciest worst-case scenarios, so I was worried he might have died and the thing I was feeling was his spirit’s last visit to our home.

I got the urge to call him to make sure he was ok but I thought I was just overreacting again, so I didn’t call him. I didn’t want to seem silly!

The Surprising Verification

About 10 minutes later my husband came home, totally unexpectedly, but also to my great relief. He said he’d eaten his lunch and was on his way back to work, but that he came home to quickly pick some stuff he had forgotten and to turn his computer off.

When he had turned his computer off and was packing his stuff, I told him about the weird feeling I’d had only a few minutes earlier. He looked funny and said, with some astonishment in his voice, “That’s scary. When did you get that feeling?”

His seriousness and astonishment scared me. I thought he was worrying about my mental health, too!

I told him it happened about 10 minutes ago. He began looking even more astonished and said, “About 10 minutes ago, I thought I should come back home and turn off my computer. I visualized myself sitting at the computer and doing so, I could feel myself sitting in my chair, at the computer. After that, I borrowed a friend’s bike and came back home to do it.”

Ha! I wasn’t losing my sanity, after all!

Coincidence or Something Cooler?

We discussed the incident briefly before he went back to work. We did ponder the possibility of coincidence, that we were simply so eager to believe in all this fancy stuff that we were just reading way too much into it. However, we liked our delusions, so we shrugged off the possibility of coincidence.

At first, we thought it was telepathy, but of course it could have been something else. We were also wondering which one of us had created the connection or whatever it was. It could have been my husband alone but I think it took the two of us to form the connection – him to send the signal or travel to his computer, me to receive it or sense his astral body at the computer. However, if he was astral traveling, he should have been very aware of it, shouldn’t he?

Coincidence? Telepathy? Astral travel? I don’t know but it sure was an interesting, and a very powerful, experience!