Sleep: 0, Insomnia: 1
May 1, 2008 Personal
Image via WikipediaI have my battles with sleep.
I don’t remember specifically when they started. There’s no pin point of light brightly resting on the year of my life in which sleeping at night time became difficulty.
It just…became.
One year I was a good little girl who could not stay up past ten p.m, and the next year I was an adult watching the time and hours tick by me while it seemed like the world slept.
The biggest, most overwhelming feeling I have late at night when trying to rustle through all of the many different cluttered-thoughts inside my skull is how much of a waste of my life sleep essentially is. How many more photos could I snap at night with the right equipment? How many more awful poems could I write? How many more words? How many more people could we reach out to if we have those eight hours back?
I don’t think I’d want to be a Beggar in Spain, however, never sleeping ever again, never dreaming. I think I’d be alright if two or three hours a night were enough to keep me going.
Eve has a really good post about how to get back into sleeping like a human being, as well as tips for sleep–but occasionally, just nothing works anymore.
Have you found your sleeping patterns futzing up as you’ve grown older? What are some of your personal tried and true remedies for insomnia?
Tags: sleep
Insomnia’s one of those lifelong things for me that’s definitely gotten worse over the last five or six years. Last week, I intentionally screwed up my sleep schedule so I wouldn’t fall asleep in the middle of a rock concert. Bad idea. . . since I’ve been struggling with sleep since then and using caffeine to stay awake during the day. I am hoping that dropping coffee and tea all weekend will help.
That’s what’s currently happening to me. :/ I had to get up super early for something a few weeks ago and thought I would just “fix,” my sleeping habit.
Harr harr–that worked for the day, and now I’m trying to iron that out. Still.