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Dexter Meme About Accidentally Resetting Sleep Progress

This meme features a screenshot of the character Dexter Morgan from the live-action TV series *Dexter*, sitting in a dimly lit residential space with a blank, wide-eyed, stunned expression. Overlaid white text describes the highly relatable everyday experience: when you accidentally open your eyes while you are in the process of trying to fall asleep, all progress you made towards sleeping is completely reset to zero, which aligns perfectly with the defeated, stunned look on Dexter's face.
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When you accidentaly open your eyes while trying to sleep and now your sleep progress is at zero again

Overview

This meme features a screenshot of the character Dexter Morgan from the live-action TV series Dexter, sitting in a dimly lit residential space with a blank, wide-eyed, stunned expression. Overlaid white text describes the highly relatable everyday experience: when you accidentally open your eyes while you are in the process of trying to fall asleep, all progress you made towards sleeping is completely reset to zero, which aligns perfectly with the defeated, stunned look on Dexter's face.

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This meme repurposes a popular screenshot from the Dexter TV series, adding relatable text to create a reaction meme. It was posted on X (formerly Twitter) by the account @meme.jpg, and this instance is sourced from the RSS feed of that X account.

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