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Back to Journal  « Telltale Audio - September 2007 | Sleeping Like a Blog | "Shooting Dogs for Fun and Profit" free at ChiZine » Sleeping Like a Blog October 7, 2007 The insomnia I've had since I was a kid (takes two hours to go to sleep, occassionally longer) has been pretty bad this year (to the point where I sleep an hour or so a night). The fear of falling asleep because I might not be awake to deal with the medical thing hasn't helped. The last few months--even as that fear has subsided--has seen it get worse though, even to the point where over-the-counter meds weren't helping and for the first time in my life I called a doctor for a prescription (for anything safe). Sure enough, felt like a drug addict. And sure enough, they wouldn't give me anything without an appointment specifically made to discuss the insomnia, though it's something we've discussed at most other visits and physicals. I can understand that. For me the breakdown is how the presciption meds are both safer and harder-to-obtain than the over-the-counter stuff. So anyway, I wouldn't have been able to get an appointment until after the weekend and I couldn't remember it getting this bad, so I tried an experiment, pushing back my bedtime thusly: Night 1: Go to sleep at 4AM, Wake at Noon. Night 2: Sleep at 8AM (following day, ovviously), Wake at 4PM Night 3: Sleep at Noon, Wake at 8PM Night 4: Sleep at 4PM, Wake at Midnight Night 5: Sleep at 8PM, Wake at 4AM Night 6: Sleep at 11PM-Midnight, Try to pass for a normal person. Only one of the "nights" was I able to sleep the full eight hours. I was pretty useless and groggy throughout most of this, and I tried to stay offline as much as possible. I'll have to re-look over all the work I did. Only a few drunk-dialing equivalents of emails went out, and hopefully I stayed out of political disputes on online fora... But it seems to have worked. Or at least change the nature of the beast. Where it might normally have taken me two hours to go to bed on a good night, the last few nights (since my "night 6") has let me fall asleep within half an hour.... and where I usually would stay asleep once I fell asleep, I now wake up four or five hours later and can't get back to sleep again. Ah well. If I look at this post tomorrow and can call it moderately coherent, I'll celebrate by catching up with emails and everything this week. If not: six more weeks of groundhog, yo! |
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, Shimmer, ChiZine, FutureQuake, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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