Dec 5, 2011

Nocturnal dilemma


In this internet-infatuated era, 'insomnia' has become such a familiar term. It is now being popularly overused (and of course, misused) by a certain group of people - the ones that cannot sleep after midnight, who then would refer themselves as 'insomniac beings'. It's pretty laughable to the real insomniacs who often cannot sleep at all for days, or continuously having poor sleep quality for a week (transient insomnia), a month (acute), or more (chronic) and has to take medications in order for them just to be able to rest.

I'm pretty softcore compared to that. Simply put, the symptoms of insomnia are 1. awakening at midnight and cannot fall back to sleep, 2. waking too early in the morning (it's safe to say that this is not my case), and 3. difficulty in falling asleep at the beginning of the night. I often experience the third one. I tend to stay awake until 3-4 am, but once I'm asleep I can go on, even until the next day (especially when I didn't sleep at all on the previous day).

These things happen when I have trouble sleeping.
Right after midnight, it will be very abnormally windy that the sound of the brushing trees will start sounding like crashing waves, and when I said crashing, I meant really, crashing, very loudly.
At around 2, the temperature will begin to rise, forcing me to toss and turn. At this moment I'd let a leg out the blanket but sometimes my head wants me to believe that there's something creeping under my bed waiting to chomp off a foot or two.
Starting from 4, the birds will start chirping like there's no tomorrow - in a bit, the sun will also start rising - my flat neighbours will also march out and be the noisiest they could possibly be - to sum up, it's just impossible to sleep anymore.

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