The night of August 14th, (that was Saturday if you’re keeping track), I slept 7 (- SEVEN-) hours. I went to bed around 2:30 a.m., and slept, without waking, through the rest of the (night) morning.
When I did wake up, it was due to the previously mentioned needs (see post below). When I saw the clock, I could not believe how long I had been asleep. Although I was still tired, and could have slept more, had I tried, I decided to get up and get moving. Once I was up and moving around, I felt remarkably better than I have on any given morning in the past month.
Sunday night… I did not have much luck in trying to sleep. I went to bed around 11:00 p.m., since I had to go to work the following day. I was lying there, thinking; but not about anything in particular. Random thoughts bounced around inside my head (as they tend to do) and none of the thoughts seemed to ever develop into anything useful or specific.
Tonight (which was Monday night up until about two and a half hours ago) I have not managed to slow my brain down enough to even try to sleep. Thoughts are pinging around in my head, bouncing and rebounding (or is that the same thing?) and quite honestly, they are making too much noise (in an abstract way) for me to relax.
It is now Tuesday, and in four hours, I will be at work. I just don’t know what the minimum amount of sleep I can get and still be able to function on an acceptable (that is to my own standards) level. I know that I can be in the state that I am now, and perform even more complex tasks without fail. (*STATE, not as in Oregon / Washington / California… but state as in: the way something is with respect to its main attributes; “the current state of knowledge”; “his state of health”; “in a weak financial state”).
A while back (days, weeks, months… who knows?) I had taken an online test to measure how tiredness affected you me — reaction time, and other things were some of the things the test analyzed. I have been trying to find it again, but cannot remember the search term I had used when I came across it the first time.
Anyway, as much as I would love to sit here and type out these thoughts as they are forming in my head, as I stated earlier, I have to work Tuesday, which is today. Unless you adhere ?(to)? my statement from a few years ago that it still can be called “tonight” until the point that you lay down on something and sleep, or until the sun rises.
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