Insomnia

[featherynscale]

I was wondering why I whine so much about things like not being able to sleep in my journal. This morning, I realized it was so that when I'm wondering how long it's been since I last got any decent sleep, I could go back and check. Clever, me. So apparently it's been a few days longer than I thought, since I first started talking about not sleeping on the 30th December. Six days, not two or three. No wonder I'm tired. No wonder I wanted to cry this morning when triadruid came in to get me out of bed.

Something needs to change in this game. Normally when I can't sleep, it's because I can't breathe. I wake up startled and fuzzy-minded, and immediately go back to sleep. This is not that. I wake up fully present, and can't go back to sleep for 15-30 minutes. I thought it was the cold meds (stimulants, after all), but I haven't had any cold meds for a couple of days now, and still, not the sleeping.

Next thing I know, I'll be getting night jobs as a projectionist, or sitting up all night writing goetic evocations of Snuffleuphagus (or not - I'm pretty sure that knowing a spirit's true name and nature are prerequisites for evocation, and not only do I not know how to spell the name of the beast, I had a difference of opinion with triadruid last night over whether it was intended to be a mammoth or an anteater.)

Comments

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

Snuffleupagus is definitely some kind of mammoth... :)
Sorry you're not sleeping, I'm getting a lot of that myself right now, but at least I don't have to get up for work or whatever so can catch up in the daytime. No clue what might cause yours, in my case its often food allergies, I did a lot better with the fuzzy feeling when i started sleeping with the window open and now even a fan blowing all night long, seems the extra air helps me, also having enough to drink overnight so I don't dry out too.

Poetic evocations of Sesame Street characters are sadly lacking in this humdrum world of ours, I definitly think you should write some :)

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the thoughts :)
Food allergies could be a factor - we've been eating a lot of odd things lately. I was thinking of having an allergy profile done at one point, but, ack! So many needles.

[hobbitblue.livejournal.com]

I prefer the exclusion diet thing, or at least taking what you eat back to a baseline then keeping a diary as you add stuff and observe - or if you';ve eaten anything unusual for you, or can spot patterns between the food and the problem (takes about 36 hours to work its way to your system).