Sleep hypothesis

[featherynscale]

Finally got enough sleep last night to do some dreaming - not a full night's sleep, but in big enough chunks to be useful, apparently. (Of course, I dreamt that agrnmn was my Dad, which was fairly disturbing, but still - any dream is better than no dreams, from a mental-processing standpoint). Based on last night's experiments, I believe that I'm not sleeping because of a)brain floods, and/or b)dehydration. So if I can shut off the mental chatter and drink more water before I go to bed, presumably I can sleep.

(Thank you, triadruid for helping me shift my focus to something external (breaking the feedback loop) and for bringing a glass of water down (which made me think "Hrm... perhaps I should go get my own glass" when I woke up and wandered about in the middle of the night.)

Comments

Lost in one's head ...

[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

You get lost in your head also?

Hopefully the cycle is broken enough you can roam a bit more freely, mentally, including into slumber.

Re: Lost in one's head ...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Pretty frequently. Usually, though, I'm grounded enough that most of the processes are related to an external goal (Here I'm talking about creativity - a storm of mental activity that produces something), but the less sleep I get, the more inner-directed and disconnected the processes seem to get, so that by yesterday afternoon, a disturbing proportion of my mental energy was engaged in singing "Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sell-Outs" inside my head... so much force, so little purpose.
Today, though, mostly back to normal ratios.