sleeplessness
i cannot decide if it is a curse or a blessing. i tend to do my best writing on those nights when sleep eludes. The hours slip by while my fingers fly over the keys, alternately pounding and caressing them with the ebb and flow of inspiration.
i should be grateful, i suppose, for the ablity to express myself thus.
But sometimes, i just want to find my bed, close my eyes, and stay asleep for a normal period of time.
4:29am.
It won’t happen this night.
one word – valerion – works like a dream for me
selkie ~
Hmm. i tend to be one who eschews pills of any sort. Probably a control freak thing. i don’t like to lose control.
That is, unless i’m surrendering it.
Thanks,
elise
I do my best writing at night — I welcome the silent darkness; I suck at it, greedy, as the hours slip by, and the words fill the screen. I do not, however, enjoy the enforced wakefulness that comes from my brain’s outright refusal to grant sleep.
Beth,
Exactly my dilemma – curse or blessing? Not that i have a choice, it seems.
elise
its an herbal thing actually – simply a relaxer – and I agree about the writing – but I live on almost no sleep as it is …. and that is NOT a good thing!
s.
The restless tired mind can unleash wonderful works of art. Valerion works, but you have to get past the stinky feet smell. Try a small fan next to the bed. White noise.
selkie -
ahh, herbal. ~wrinkling nose~ i’ve mostly just reached a point where i sort of let my body tell me what it needs. But there are just those times when you want to sleep, or when you feel as though you’re going to need to have slept to get through the next day.
Lynn,
Ugh. Stinky feet smell? That alone rules it out for me. i’ve tried different versions of white noise. What tends to happen, though, is that something pops into my head that i’d like to write, the beginning of an idea, and i begin to turn it over and brainstorm it, and after a while the white noise starts to annoy me, and i turn it off so i can think better. Honestly, i’m really quite self-defeating on the sleep front. ~smile~ Thanks, though.
elise
The constant search for sleep of the insomniac….it’s turned my world around so badly, I do my best writing/reading/cleaning/etc. at night and sleep days, which gives a great excuse for the jungle in my yard. No one can do yard work at night is a believable excuse.
However, I’ve found only one non-addictive thing that helps. B-12 in a sublingual tablet. Most think B-12 is for energy, but in reality it assists in carrying oxygen through the blood stream. Taken an hour before you go to bed, it acts as a natural relaxant….at least it does for me and the brilliant gal that clued me in.
(I almost hate to share the information. Selfishly, I’d hate to see any slow down in your writing.)
Kaz ~
Were it not for the fact that, for the time being, i still work full time outside the home, and were it not for the athletic and extracurricular schedules of my children, i’d likely be a vampire.
i embrace the night. Always have. i think that has as much to do with my restlessness as my spinning mind.
Thanks for the B-12 tip. i’ll give it a shot. And an extra thanks for your kind words. Selfishness notwithstanding.
elise