ChickPea has inadvertently joined the ranks of the under-sleeping these past many weeks. With frequent spells of similar over the previous months into years. If you too are caught in this scenario of AWAKE at some early hour, with Sleep happening to Others who you have no wish to awaken, then you have all my sympathy, empathy and commiserations.
Leaving your bed runs both the likelihood of becoming SO awake yourself that there’s no chance at all of getting back to sleep, as well as the risk of Awakening Others. However, if you have a bedfellow, staying in bed may similarly run that risk of Awakening Another as you re-arrange pillows/sleeping position/duvet/check the clock/etc...........
Gaining Insight into this scenario is a compensation, I guess, enabling greater understanding of the burdens of others.
The Feline Thing That Goes Bump In The Night has cottoned on to this timetable and appears about 5.30am for a little company (probably hoping that TODAY may perhaps Be The Day For An Extra Breakfast)...
Concentration for prayer is somewhat absent.
Recalling others in the blogging fraternity who share in this experience may perhaps reach out some support.
I suppose ironing in another part of the house is always an option........
And, of course, by the time the alarm finally sounds, sleep is tantalizingly close, so actually getting up for the day is no easier than if you have only just awoken.
But, however you look at it, this is not – currently - an ideal start to a day, nor conducive to cheerful outgoing self-projection, nor to positive working relationships........
Anyway....... have a good day. x
6 comments:
Doesn't happen to me these days. I struggle to respond to an alarm clock! However, commiserations. When I was deadly depressed, this was a way of life for me. I used to dread the 5am tribunals!
It'll come right....(once the helicopters b***** off) but maybe a wee visit to the doc?
And here's another joining the ranks! There is one way to look at it - more time to read, watch TV (there are some very educational programmes during the night!) or do jobs that I don't seem to find the hours in the day for! Mind you, there is a limit to how long you can do this for... At least I don't have a significant other to disturb in bed at the mo - unless you count the cat!
Self confessed insomniac here. The three or four am wake up is familiar territory. After thirty minutes I get up for a cup of tea. A 4.30 to 5 am wake up is the worst as I get up at 6 and it is hard to get off again in the time given.
Non- insomniacs annoy me. When I tell them my trials they say, "That's funny,I'm off as soon as my head hits the pillow and I sleep right through."
Really? So helpful!
Same here....for nigh on 15 years, I have sneaked quietly downstairs at about 4 am, with a spare blanket, snuggled in one deep chair, feet on another, BBC1 (or now Channel 80)at a low level, and sleep eventually overcomes the need to watch the latest news re-gurgitated every 15 mins!
I don't think it's going to change now!
Same here....for nigh on 15 years, I have sneaked quietly downstairs at about 4 am, with a spare blanket, snuggled in one deep chair, feet on another, BBC1 (or now Channel 80)at a low level, and sleep eventually overcomes the need to watch the latest news re-gurgitated every 15 mins!
I don't think it's going to change now!
Harry appears to have caught your repeater habit!
Not sure you'll want to hear this but if anything I suffer from an excess of sleep. Makes bed time reading neigh impossible. I am usually found with an open book covering my face which when removed exposes the composed features of one at peace with a smile playing on my lips (so my wife tells me).
If I can't sleep at night - because of over active snoozing during the day - a blog or two is a great restorative.
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