Thursday, March 29, 2007
Twilight Zones
Yea...so, it's now 5.14 in the morning and i just signed up for the "People who don't sleep enough because they stay up late for no reason" group on Facebook. Now, there's a group for people like us. Fantastic. Just lovely.
It reads:
"It's 5am, you're still up. You have no good reason to be up. You have to wake up at 8:30 in the morning. You know you're going to be tired as hell the next day but you just can't bring yourself to go to sleep like everyone else. You're not really an insomniac, you just have some mental block when it comes to going to bed.
Who needs 8 hours of sleep anyway? If you live to be 90, that's 30 years of your life spent unconscious, right? That's bullshit. You can spend the time better. Besides, you're too busy in the day, you can only relax at night. If you've ever rationalized your needless lack of sleep this way, you belong in this group."
Seriously, it's a disease. Nothing really explains our bizarre behavioral practices, nothing other than our persistent procrastination of going to bed. It's not that we're lazy (c'mon...); it's something deeper, more psychological. More sinister, really.
At 5am in the morning, your brain goes into autopilot mode. Nothing around you makes sense anymore. The barking of dogs, the metallic hum of our neighbour's air-conditioner, the glare of the computer screen: it all congeals into a blob of intangible plasm. Nothing registers. You're in a spaced-out zone of routine-clicking of the mouse and typing of insensible words on the keypad (which interestingly, are comprehensible by your fellow night-walkers on MSN). And the funny thing is, once the clock strikes 5am, you can forget about putting yourself to sleep anymore. No matter how hard you try, how physically exhausted you may be, you can toss and turn till the sun comes shining through your naked blinds and sleep just never comes.
...it's 5.30am now.
*Types asidjoaiwueowireowenmdkfwqoieuqowindoihci and deletes. Repeats twice.*
*Glances around the room while thinking of the POSSIBILITY of sleep*
OoOooohh wait....
Someone just signed-in on MSN.
Great.
