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kittiwakeMy insomnia has got much worse recently and I don't think I can be getting more than 4 hours sleep per night at the moment Although I get very tired in the afternoons at work and can feel my eyelids drooping and start thinking about having a nap as soon as I get home, that never seems to happen. Some evenings I am dog-tired and unable to concentrate, on the verge of falling asleep all evening, missing half of whatever I'm watching on television as I keep dropping off, but I still don't go to bed. Other evenings I seem to get a second wind when I get home from work and don't go to bed until late. I also go through phases of staying up really late, watching any old rubbish, and I just can't get round to going to bed even though I'm shattered and I know it's ridiculous to still be up at that time of night.
And either way of course, when I do finally get to bed, it takes a couple of hours to get to sleep and I wake up at least a couple of times during the night. Sometimes I'll get up when I am lying there unable to sleep and watch TV or read or go on the Internet, but when I do that I tend to get even less sleep. I suppose it's possible that could help me to sleep better the following night, but who knows?
I have a lot of issues with sleep : (
On a lighter note:
"The Rapid Eye Movement" is a Radio 45 comedy about the dream life of a man called Chester. The Rapid Eye Movement is a repertory company in Chester's head, with writers, actors, stagehands and a very conceited director, who are responsible for scripting and acting out his dreams. On one insomniac night recently, I got to thinking about why this idea could actually be true : )
Often a dream will feature you or someone you know, but they will look nothing like the real-life person, which is obviously because they are being played by an actor. And I find that the same locations recur in my dreams; any dream set in thesupermarket is set in one particular supermarket I shopped in as a child, while the same piece of countryside often reappears in outdoors dreams. That must be because the stagehands reuse the same sets rather than wastefully creating new ones for each dream. And when they haven't time to create a new dream, or want to reinforce a point that they are making to Chester, they just re-enact one of the old ones - which is why people have recurring dreams.
And either way of course, when I do finally get to bed, it takes a couple of hours to get to sleep and I wake up at least a couple of times during the night. Sometimes I'll get up when I am lying there unable to sleep and watch TV or read or go on the Internet, but when I do that I tend to get even less sleep. I suppose it's possible that could help me to sleep better the following night, but who knows?
I have a lot of issues with sleep : (
On a lighter note:
"The Rapid Eye Movement" is a Radio 45 comedy about the dream life of a man called Chester. The Rapid Eye Movement is a repertory company in Chester's head, with writers, actors, stagehands and a very conceited director, who are responsible for scripting and acting out his dreams. On one insomniac night recently, I got to thinking about why this idea could actually be true : )
Often a dream will feature you or someone you know, but they will look nothing like the real-life person, which is obviously because they are being played by an actor. And I find that the same locations recur in my dreams; any dream set in thesupermarket is set in one particular supermarket I shopped in as a child, while the same piece of countryside often reappears in outdoors dreams. That must be because the stagehands reuse the same sets rather than wastefully creating new ones for each dream. And when they haven't time to create a new dream, or want to reinforce a point that they are making to Chester, they just re-enact one of the old ones - which is why people have recurring dreams.
