There is a curse that not many people experience. In fact so few experience it I’m not even sure if I am experiencing it. There is no list of symptoms, no medication, no way to be diagnosed. But I hesitantly assert that I have it. I am a victim of this disease of sorts. Its name is this: too much sleep.
Once I left my family a message on their answering machine that sounded like this, “I’m dyyyyyyyyyinggggggggg family. There is pain behind my eyes and headaches and I’m always tired. It’s a brain tumor I know it.” Now I’m not ruling out a brain tumor, but Brittany told me I was sleep-deprived. So for a long time now (a week, maybe two) I have slept. And slept. And then I had a fever-not swine flu so I slept more. So I’m 100% sure I am not sleep deprived because I am averaging 9-10 hours when I sleep in everyday.
And now it is Thursday and today was unbearable. My eyeballs have darker circles under them, my eyelids are red, and my eyes don’t open fully. Is this a problem? Yes. The fact that I can barely open my eyes in a lit room and not at all when outside has begun to interfere with my everyday life (can you believe it?!). So I have concluded that I must have the reverse of being sleep-deprived. I am sleep-undeprived or over slept or too much sleep or whatever. So in an effort to reverse this disease and save my vision I am going to stay up later. That’s right, I’m going to stay up LATER. Not go to bed earlier-the opposite.
Yes, I may be the first person to ever say this, but I am one of the few, the proud, the sleep-undeprived. And we break all kinds of rules. And we stay up late, doctor’s orders.
2 comments:
I know how you feel. There is a fine line of how many hours you need, and it's different from everyone. I think you should tweak your plan a little bit. Some researchers believe that the hours of sleep you get before 12am are more beneficial to the hours you get after. Just like the Bible says, "Early to bed, early to rise..." Dang, I hate when they're right ;)
Ah blessed sleep. :)
Nice blog!
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