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Everyone, I guarantee, everyone experiences insomnia at some point. It does not matter how healthy you are (or how healthy you think you are), it does not matter how wonderful and consistent your sleeping schedule is, and it does not matter if your willpower is so strong that you can force yourself to sleep on cue... or a reverse narcoleptic response.
Anyway, it's not like I make a habit out of insomnia, as it only happens every few days. If I'm lucky, maybe once a week. Of course, the main culprit is obviously screwing up my sleep schedule, i.e. waking up between 2 to 5 p.m. and very few people do that. But when it does happen, as many insomniacs know, the journey to restful sleep is a daunting one, as you feel like you're wasting more energy by trying to sleep than actually forcing yourself to stay awake. That said, instead of lying idly in my bed, eyes wide open and brain cells hyperactively leaping all over my mind, I chose to do some work. Smart? Maybe, maybe not. The only risk in doing so is that I may not remember everything that I did/read... or I may get hungry from thinking too much.
But here's what I got out of tonight. I chose to do two things: read William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Virgil's The Aeneid. Both can be considered really, really, old literature (Shakespeare's dating back to the 17th century and Virgil's to pre-Christ years) that, not surprisingly, I am forced to read in my English classes. Regardless of the fact that my degree-required classes include a Shakespeare class and whatever, I actually held some interest in the subject matter before I registered for these classes. I've read several Shakespeare plays, including the all-too-well-known The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and regrettably, only a portion of Macbeth (which I swear to God, I absolutely will finish one of these days). I purchased a copy of The Aeneid quite a few years prior to attending this class... but I never fully read the piece.
So hurray to insomnia, as it led me to covering some ground on my readings. No way could I finish The Merchant of Venice, let alone the 400-page The Aeneid, in one night, but at least I got to the point where the plots have become clear and I don't need to fry my brain every three paragraphs in order to figure out what on earth the stories' respective characters are talking about. Not to be hasty, but right after The Merchant of Venice is over with, King Lear, Henry VI, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and a second go-around for both Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream are due up... oh, boy.
Recall that I mentioned a possible risk for working into the late hours include hunger. I'll admit... I do feel like devouring something right now. Peace.
Anyway, it's not like I make a habit out of insomnia, as it only happens every few days. If I'm lucky, maybe once a week. Of course, the main culprit is obviously screwing up my sleep schedule, i.e. waking up between 2 to 5 p.m. and very few people do that. But when it does happen, as many insomniacs know, the journey to restful sleep is a daunting one, as you feel like you're wasting more energy by trying to sleep than actually forcing yourself to stay awake. That said, instead of lying idly in my bed, eyes wide open and brain cells hyperactively leaping all over my mind, I chose to do some work. Smart? Maybe, maybe not. The only risk in doing so is that I may not remember everything that I did/read... or I may get hungry from thinking too much.
But here's what I got out of tonight. I chose to do two things: read William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Virgil's The Aeneid. Both can be considered really, really, old literature (Shakespeare's dating back to the 17th century and Virgil's to pre-Christ years) that, not surprisingly, I am forced to read in my English classes. Regardless of the fact that my degree-required classes include a Shakespeare class and whatever, I actually held some interest in the subject matter before I registered for these classes. I've read several Shakespeare plays, including the all-too-well-known The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and regrettably, only a portion of Macbeth (which I swear to God, I absolutely will finish one of these days). I purchased a copy of The Aeneid quite a few years prior to attending this class... but I never fully read the piece.
So hurray to insomnia, as it led me to covering some ground on my readings. No way could I finish The Merchant of Venice, let alone the 400-page The Aeneid, in one night, but at least I got to the point where the plots have become clear and I don't need to fry my brain every three paragraphs in order to figure out what on earth the stories' respective characters are talking about. Not to be hasty, but right after The Merchant of Venice is over with, King Lear, Henry VI, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and a second go-around for both Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream are due up... oh, boy.
Recall that I mentioned a possible risk for working into the late hours include hunger. I'll admit... I do feel like devouring something right now. Peace.
1 comment(s):
yaya hurray for no sleep in regular hours! actually its terrible ive already started to miss classes because of it. need to get back on schedule and do my hw on time.
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