Wide awake and freezing cold
Keeya
That’s it, brothers and sisters of sleeplessness. I’m off the Ambien. Regarded as the Rolls Royce of legal sleep aids, the junk can only work its soporific voodoo on me these days two hours at a time. In those two hours during this round, I had dreams that all of my books were hot pillows and there were people riding them like a merry-go-round. No nudity either, which you kind of expect with hot pillows.
After that, the ride was over for the pillow-book people and for me. Wide awake with the taste Ambien still in my throat.
To be fair, I was using the generic version of the drug. But mostly, I think it’s the ju jitsu feistiness of my own metabolism that fights off the dopey effects of the wonder meds. When the mind doesn’t want to go to sleep, it starts doing this crazy crane technique to snap you out of the haze. If done right, no defense.
In the summertime, insomnia is a form of weird blessing. You stumble outside yawning and there is the sun, rising to shine glory on your sleep-deprived dementia and even tan in a little. In wintertime, there is a foot-and-a-half of snow, freezing wind punching you in bed-warmed face and darkness as stubborn as you are.
But a least it affords a guy a great opportunity to snow blow the yard. I mean, operating a large machine with whirring blades while lingering under the effects of a prescription hypnotic. What could possibly go wrong?
December 22nd, 2008 at 4:29 pm
How many times do I have to tell you that Pinot Grigio works far better than any medication to knock you out?
December 22nd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Brother Insomniac, why fight it? Do you know all the trouble you can stir up on blogs all over the world when you don’t waste time pretending to try and sleep? I gave up years ago and loss of sleep hasn’t affected me one little bit.
Dickhead
Except for a minor case of Tourette’s.
Fucktard
December 23rd, 2008 at 2:09 am
I can sympathize with you, Mark. I am lucky to get four hours of sleep a night, with most nights it’s only two before I am up again to only try again in an hour or so. I tend not to dream at night, which only adds to things. But when I do, they tend to be on the memorable side, much like people riding hot pillows in yours.
December 23rd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
No really, Mark, I think snow blowing at 4:30 a.m. is underrated in the city. That’s when they start out here in the country. You go right ahead and turn that sucker on, all your neighbors will admire your industry.
December 24th, 2008 at 12:25 am
For the nights you can’t sleep, perhaps these will lull you to sleep..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBNu6WMfR1k
December 24th, 2008 at 3:00 am
A lackoff sleep in my case, I was sleeping 2-4hours a night, meant that I was developing serious problems with the psychotic. My lack of sleep extended to 0 sleep for 7 straight days and I did become psychotic. Don’t let anyone bullshit you. Sleep is necessary and to get proper sleep you’ve got to recognize and get rid of the bugaboos.
I love ya man. Call me if you need me.
December 24th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I just finished a 3 hour nap – after being awake for almost 48 hours & driving straight thru from Pa to Florida. Arrived around 11AM this morning – took care of a few things before CRASHING. (I was chewing on caffeine tabs to stay on the road.) Personally, I don’t sleep well either – but Ambien made me too loopy. Have a great Christmas everyone.