I have been having a minor failure in sleep lately. I am working on it… If you accept ‘working on it’ as ‘grumbling about it, occasionally drugging myself, and contemplating in a not particularly directional way talking to my doctor about the headaches that have still not gone away’.
It has a sort of interesting effect on the way I look at editing though (and for some reason on how loud I play my music). Yesterday I ended up rewriting this scene that I wrote when I was sick that’s kind of overly emotional. I think it may actually have become more mushy …although there’s also more swearing now. I think it’s better now. But it’s possible I’ve lost my sense of perspective. Because there’s still a pun in it. It’s really, really not funny. I kind of like it anyway.
Me: …but I think that’s just because I haven’t had a lot of sleep lately
Arkem: One day you’re going to get 5 nights of uninterrupted sleep in a row and we can finally know for sure how much is sleep dep crazy and how much is just regular crazy.
Me: Well… if it happened all of a sudden like that I’d probably go loopy in the other direction. Also, I was asleep for around 18 months once and no one has commented on me being particularly sane afterwards. Maybe it’s just a more connected/energetic crazy. That could be worse. A lunacy that wasn’t interrupted by sleepiness or losing one’s train of thought… imagine how far it could get…
Arkem: An unstoppable force.
Me: Is what I’m thinking. Perhaps my inability to sleep these days is an evolutionary necessity to stop me taking over the world.
Arkem: Well then, I know what my mission must be: get you enough sleep to take over the world.
Me: Sounds good to me. 🙂 Although I refuse to be held responsible for the results.
Arkem: Naturally.
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djkeyserv140
07/12/2012
I must say, your conversations with Paul S and Arkem are immensely amusing. Would an increase in sleep lower the quality of said conversations?
Maybe the headaches are all the ideas trying to get out? da Vinci only slept for 4 hours a night because his brain wouldn’t stop whirring away I believe.
Kandace Mavrick
07/12/2012
One wonders. But they sleep like normal people and manage to be amusing. They even think puns are funny when they’re not ill and have had a solid eight hours rest. …It’s possible they’re simply mad.
Sometimes my insomnia is what I call my brain ‘leaking’. Mostly when I have been in some way prevented from writing for a few days. I get twitchy and often end up writing in the middle of the night. The headaches are new and I disapprove of them. Not least because I tend to get frustrated and drug myself to sleep, which is not conducive to having brilliant writerly moments at 3am.
Arkem
07/12/2012
Simply mad?
There is nothing simple about my madness.