Sleep - those little slices of death, how I loathe them...

jaggedlittlegirl · Post by **jaggedlittlegirl** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:02 pm

But I have to say I kinda miss them at the moment. For the most part, I love my insomnia. I get the best ideas at night and I love how quiet and still and mysterious nights can be BUT lately it's been getting worse I think and I'm REALLY beginning to feel(and look) tired. Oh well...I'm bound to sleep eventually right?

What's that saying? I'll sleep when I'm dead...

Anyway, jumping through sites I came across a few quotes on sleeping, I kinda liked them so I thought I'd share.

It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I don't know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind. I wish I believed, as J. B. Priestley did, that consciousness continues after disembodiment or death, not forever, but for a long while. Three score years and ten is such a stingy ration of time, when there is so much time around. Perhaps that's why some of us are insomniacs; night is so precious that it would be pusillanimous to sleep all through it! A "bad night" is not always a bad thing. ~Brian W. Aldiss

Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation. ~Author Unknown

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune. ~Griff Niblack

When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake. ~From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk

How do people go to sleep? I'm afraid I've lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things. ~Dorothy Parker

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. ~Charlotte Brontë

anastrophe · Post by **anastrophe** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:32 pm

interesting quotes. i suffer insomnia only once in a blue moon - my wife (valerie here) suffers it frequently.

although - is it insomnia if you never got around to getting to bed? i've always wondered about that. i often find myself lingering here at the computer until 1am, 2am, sometimes even 3am. i've never thought of that as insomnia, but i suppose it could be considered so. i happen to like being nightowlish though, that's my story and i'm sticking to it.

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 11:46 pm

jaggedlittlegirl wrote: What's that saying? I'll sleep when I'm dead...
I say that all the time. It's going on 3 in the morning here, and I don't have a sleepy bone in my body. Tired? Yes. Exhausted? Yes. Sleepy? Hardly. So, here I sit, tapping away at the keyboard hoping to feel even slightly as though I could sleep. Ah, well...what can you do?

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:27 am

I don't have problems GOING to sleep, I have problems STAYING asleep.

No one should be afraid of going to sleep as it is our bodies opportunity to rejuvenate and rest.

I never associate sleep with death (although old people do die in their sleep) and I don't like it when people tell their kids that their dead relatives are 'asleep' or went to sleep for 'ever'. Nor do I like it when a pet has to be put down and the child is told that the pet is being 'put to sleep'....I just think the 2 are separate.

Sleep is not death...not even tiny slices of it IMO.

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:49 am

I LOVE sleep. Don't get enough of it, but love it. Gives body and mind a chance to shuffle off the troubles of the day and regroup for the next bunch of.. um... challenges. I'm all in favour of sleep.

I vote for the definition of sleep as lack of caffeine deprivation.. grin. I can relate to that.

G'night !!

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:03 am

Sleep is good, I'm like Pam, I don't get enough of it.

I am a morning person, best thoughts are the first hour after I am awake and going.

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:09 am

I drink Sleepytime Tea when I have trouble getting to sleep, it has the same effect on me as one Tylenol PM.

I'm waiting for the kids to get older so I can sleep past 7 in the morning again.....

cherandbuster · Post by **cherandbuster** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:22 am

Bez wrote: I don't have problems GOING to sleep, I have problems STAYING asleep.

No one should be afraid of going to sleep as it is our bodies opportunity to rejuvenate and rest.

I never associate sleep with death (although old people do die in their sleep) and I don't like it when people tell their kids that their dead relatives are 'asleep' or went to sleep for 'ever'. Nor do I like it when a pet has to be put down and the child is told that the pet is being 'put to sleep'....I just think the 2 are separate.

Sleep is not death...not even tiny slices of it IMO.

I'm totally with Bez on her whole post

I agree fully :p

jaggedlittlegirl · Post by **jaggedlittlegirl** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:16 am

I don't associate sleeping with death either. The title is actually a quote on sleeping from my favorite author; Edgar Allan Poe.

I've managed to "learn" how to be functional on 'round 4 hours of sleep at night, but I do wonder what it would be like if I'd be getting more.

Hehe I like the night owl thing anastrophe! It's a cool way of looking at it.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:20 am

Sleep when you get to escape reality for your dreams. Yea I like it when it comes.

minks · Post by **minks** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 11:39 am

I'm waiting for the kids to get older so I can sleep past 7 in the morning again.....

Until they hit teen ages then you are up late waiting for them to come home....

I like sleep too, my sleep is all over the board good nites bad nites, but the worst is that just nodding off stage you feel the euphoric moment just before you tumble into dreamland, and BOOM, the cat with his thunder paws jumps from the chair to the hardwood floor and halts the entire sleep process for like 2 more hours.