habits of highly effective insomniacs
Feb. 3rd, 2003 03:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wisdomeagle1) My new goal in life is to forget to sleep. Usually when I stay up, I choose not to sleep, and occasionally I simply cannot sleep (insomnia proper). But apparently Isaac Newton sometimes just plumb forgot to sleep, and that is my new goal in life. To say one day, "Hmm, what could this feeling of exhaustion permeating my being be? Oh, drat, it's been another three days--time for a nap."
2) My roommate is staying up late tonight to write a paper. I'm staying up late tonight to help her to write said paper. When I go on long car trips with my parents, as they get increasingly tired, I get increasingly hyper, and I help them to stay awake by jabbering incoherently. My conclusion? My role in life is to help people stay awake.
3) I'm more amusing, outgoing, and beautiful late at night. I'm also more psychotic and depressed, but the ideal is sort of a caffeine high that extends to every inch of my being, a sort of drowsy wakefulness. I'm like a little kid up past hir bedtime, only I do it all the time.
4) I don't think I have ever in my life gone to bed before someone else when we were having fun. Like at slumber parties or on weekends and stuff. Not at night, in any event. I have many memories of my roommate and Laurie and Pome* and people saying, "Okay, I'm exhausted, bedtime," but NONE of me saying similar things.
Therefore, I conclude, I need to evolve a lifestyle that enables me to best take advantage of these traits. Being nocturnal, like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
astraluna, is a possibility. Sleep during the day and stay up all night. The problem is that it's not just that I function well late at night; I function well when I'm tired and ought to go to bed. Right now, for instance. I write my most brilliant papers when I'm bordering on insanity. I'm happiest, giddiest, funniest, saddest, most miserable, all when I'm most sleep-deprived. Naps also appear to be out: they just screw up my schedule. Caffeine works. I'm currently operating on three cups of Cherry Coke from lunch and about 6 hours of sleep from 4-10 this morning. I'm completely wired.
2) My roommate is staying up late tonight to write a paper. I'm staying up late tonight to help her to write said paper. When I go on long car trips with my parents, as they get increasingly tired, I get increasingly hyper, and I help them to stay awake by jabbering incoherently. My conclusion? My role in life is to help people stay awake.
3) I'm more amusing, outgoing, and beautiful late at night. I'm also more psychotic and depressed, but the ideal is sort of a caffeine high that extends to every inch of my being, a sort of drowsy wakefulness. I'm like a little kid up past hir bedtime, only I do it all the time.
4) I don't think I have ever in my life gone to bed before someone else when we were having fun. Like at slumber parties or on weekends and stuff. Not at night, in any event. I have many memories of my roommate and Laurie and Pome* and people saying, "Okay, I'm exhausted, bedtime," but NONE of me saying similar things.
Therefore, I conclude, I need to evolve a lifestyle that enables me to best take advantage of these traits. Being nocturnal, like
astraluna, is a possibility. Sleep during the day and stay up all night. The problem is that it's not just that I function well late at night; I function well when I'm tired and ought to go to bed. Right now, for instance. I write my most brilliant papers when I'm bordering on insanity. I'm happiest, giddiest, funniest, saddest, most miserable, all when I'm most sleep-deprived. Naps also appear to be out: they just screw up my schedule. Caffeine works. I'm currently operating on three cups of Cherry Coke from lunch and about 6 hours of sleep from 4-10 this morning. I'm completely wired.
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Date: 2003-02-03 11:33 am (UTC)night is the best time for creativity, i feel much more....*raw* at night.