Experiments of the Sub-conscious Mind / A Five Part Series — Part 1 – Sleep
Monday, July 13th, 2009I woke up this morning thinking about sleep – mostly how little we know about it. We spend nearly a third of our lives in it while we’re here on the planet and yet we think about it little. It’s just something we do.
I’m not at all an expert on the subject. But I do have nearly 20 years of experience. Trouble is, while I’ve been experiencing it, I’ve been asleep.
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I know one thing for sure: I don’t get enough of it. Also, for the last 10 years my sleep patterns have really changed. I used to get my 8 straight as a boy, then as a young man I moved to 6 a night. I seemed to do just fine with that, but if I got even 5 on one night, then I’d have to get in a couple of 8 straight to get on top of it. Otherwise I’d just be wasted for days.
Then, in my latter years, my sleep patterns changed again. I think it was when my son was born and I used to take the middle of the night feeding so that my wife could sleep. Waking up around 3 or 4 was excruciating for me. I was a 6 straight guy and I would crawl out of bed when the baby would cry and stagger around like a drunk.
After the feedings stopped, I kept waking up anyway and laying there trying to go back to sleep. I began, at those times, to suffer from insomnia. It was not fun. No matter what I did, I could not go back to sleep. I tried everything.
