A swirly cloud of something else that looked like fog filled the room, and then faded to somewhere else. A man lay sleeping in a bed, covers pulled up to his chin. The clock next to him showed "6:59", then quietly flipped to something else, possibly "7:00", and began to beep.
Jim was asleep, and right in the middle of a very different dream, when the loud beeping of the alarm caused him to do something else, namely waking up. He blinked his eyes a few times, rolled over and turned off the alarm. He lay there in bed for a moment, remembering what he was supposed to do today. Whatever it was, it had better be something else than yesterday, he thought - yesterday was weird, but today is something else entirely!
After lying ("laying" means something else) there quietly for a moment, Jim:
Mon Apr 26 01:38:03 1999