I am talking to you from the middle of the middle of the night - the small hours when it is no longer today but not yet tomorrow and there is absolutely no-one awake in the whole of the universe except for you. But in this case it's me. I am doing the insomnia shuffle, so you don't have to. Well somebody has to, that is understood. Here is an interesting fact: whenever there is something I particularly want or need to do the next day the odds are that I will have insomnia the night before, either the kind where I can't get to sleep or where I fall asleep only to wake up an hour or two later feeling as though I've just had a couple of double espressos - wired. Today - or last night, if we're going to be precise about this - it was the former. I was tired enough when head went down but once it met pillow - bang: wired. I have a number of remedies up my sleeve for this kind of thing, all manner of things both natural and unnatural, and sometimes the remedies do the trick, especially if I act quickly before insomnia demon has properly grabbed me.
Tomorrow, or later today, in about nine hours time to be exact, I am supposed to meet Mr. Signs, who will be coming straight from Shrink school, at a venue on Brighton sea front where there is to be a university (his) reunion lunch party. I will know some of the people from when we lived in London. It will be jolly, or might be if I were now sleeping instead of talking to you.
Off I go to kick Morpheus's backside.
Sweet dreams, peeps.
6 comments:
Sucks.
But on this side of the world... well, it's not just you alone in the universe.
I like listening to recorded books to sleep. Especially John Le Carre (who has a lovely voice) or Terry Pratchett (read by Steven Briggs.)
Insomnia hasn't afflicted me for a while - thankfully - but oftentimes when I'm asleep my mind still feels like it's fully switched on. Either that or very intense dreams.
Hope you catch up on lost sleep later!
Zhoen, I used to listen to Radio Stockholm. I liked the sound of the language that I always felt on the edge of understanding. But headphones and me don't get on.
Trousers, fortunately it isn't a constant thing and stock up on sleep other times.
Ah, the new day.
hope morning found you not too gritty-eyed...
not suffering so much with this particualr affliction of late - one of the pluses of unemployment I guess!!
Hope you got to the 'do' and it went well.When I can't sleep I either meditate or, if I'm feeling less esoteric, I watch dreadful shopping channels on TV until I'm so bored I nod off
Hi FB, being unemployed doesn't seem to do it for me - but I reckon being employed would be immeasurably worse. In the end a mixture of porridge and codeine (one after the other, not together) did it.
Cusp, I'm a terrible meditator so that's out. But shopping channels, especially now we have our dish - and for a dedicated non-shopper like me - yes, I can kind of see how that might work! Ta :)
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