November 7, 2009

Sleep sleep sleep, bye bye insomnia!

All through the past two weeks I’ve been having some serious sleep encounters, as in I fall asleep almost everywhere, which is my baby sister’s thing actually!! Coffee no longer works, I drink about three huge mugs a day, black, no sugar, and yet I can’t seem to keep my eyes opened, not even while driving, ME!!!

After the second time I fell asleep while driving, I decided to see a doctor. I hate how doctors laugh at me when I speak of my eccentricities as if they were normal. Yes, I barely sleep 4 hours straight a day, and I wake up in the middle of the night having serious troubles falling back to sleep; hence insomniac. Always have and I think I have gotten used to it by now, this is not a change I would welcome actually!!

Apparently, my body has a different agenda! I lose focus; I get dizzy, and eventually fall asleep. My body has decided my insomnia days are over and now I don’t even sleep like normal people, I sleep all the freakin time and I hate it!!

I tried to act all stubborn and stay up late without even a nap that weekend and the punishment was horrible; I couldn’t lift my head off the pillow for the next 14 hours. I had a nasty migraine as if an iron fist was squeezing all the brain cells out of my scull, and when I eventually got out of bed I almost didn’t recognize my mirror image; I was extremely pale and fuzzy, I looked more like a zombie!

So yes, I am surrendering to all the sleep; today I woke up at 10am after sleeping at 1am, only to go for a long nap at 5pm and wake up at 9!!! And I know I will probably be in bed within an hour at most!!!

I sort of have an identity crisis!! If this lasts, I will change my name from insomniac to sleepy head! Oh insomnia, I will miss you.

P.s. The reason I have not been posting is basically because I am either asleep or out of focus most of the time :(

10 comments:

Ice Queer said...

Hahaha can I be super shallow/mean and say that this is SO gemini? =P

insomniac said...

you ARE mean!

meh, i'm too sleepy to care!!

what! so gemini!! everything i do is so gemini to you; you have some sort of gemini complex...

hey your birthday came already or around the corner?

Sue said...

I've been a sleepy head my entire life, I guess it gets worse during weather changes. You might find this article useful:

http://health.msn.com/health-topics/slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=100247627&gt1=31036

Sara said...

it happens to me too with the winter's entrance .. I guess its normal specially when it gets a little bit cold - tho it's been extremely hot the last 2 days -

So, never mind, you'll balance yourself when the weather gets balanced.

Ice Queer said...

Lol i said it in a sarcastic way :p enno u were inso and now sleepy head :D mel naqeed lel naqeed like gemini's phases

Yeah it was on 26th of Oct =)

Anonymous said...

Oh inso , akeed your body and mind have had enough of insomnia that they eventually collapsed!

Insomnia sucks , oversleeping as well.Balance is always the best.

Have some rest , you'll need that for the coming insomnia days.

R

Unknown said...

ooh! ya einy! haha.. funny. well, i'm in dire need of sleep. want to switch places?

insomniac said...

Sue,

thanks dear... i read through the link until the "bored" part... i think it explained a lot!!!


Sara,

exactly! i did not even feel cold, one second i was driving in traffic, the next ZZZZZZ!!!


IQ,

:P

oh, and it's the same as my boss' BD :)


R,

hahaha, my body was meant to collapse, i totally agree! insomnia sucks but it's familiar and i got used to understanding how to work my life around it... problem with oversleeping is that you sort of sleep through everything!!

i think i am getting better, i managed to be mesa7sa7a until 10 am this morning... sort of sleepy now :)


Amira,

i don't want to be in a dire need of sleep, ana banam 3ala roo7y as it is :)) i want to not NEED to sleep... and hun, go get some sleep, unless you're a fellow insomniac!

Unknown said...

la' la' la'.. fellow insomniac meen.. I value and cherish and need my 7 hours of sleep a day. lately, it's down to 5:30-6 hrs and that's why i'm in dire need of sleep ;)

Care said...

Most people have the occasional night of disturbed sleep. Insomnia is a feeling of not being able to get enough sleep. It’s usually related to finding it hard to get to sleep, waking up without having had enough sleep or not feeling refreshed after sleep. One in four people are thought to suffer from insomnia at some point in their lives. Insomnia is the inability to fall asleep or to stay asleep longs enough to get a proper night’s sleep. This can make you feel permanently tired.