Sleep eluded me as a child, but now it clings to me like a peel on a grapefruit.
When I was small, falling asleep was a nightmare. I tossed and turned until I felt lightheaded and my eyes ached from being forced shut for so long. I simply wasn’t sleepy. It didn’t help that I was a pretty anxious kid either. My mind conjured up horrifying images of Freddy Krueger rising from beneath the sheets and It the clown crawling toward my bed. Lack of sleep can put strange thoughts in one’s head. I also worried that my brain was shrinking from lack of sleep. I would do mental math problems to check if my intelligence was deteriorating. Fear kept my mind racing.
I used to pray desperately for sleep to come. It often took hours for sleep to find me.
Today, however, I can sleep like a baby and monsters no longer scare me. The only problem is I now feel tired at, ironically, nine o’ clock. I fall into deep sleeps, which does not bode well for a college student. I cannot get up for at least a couple hours when I nap. I have apparently unconsciously growled twice at my roommates whom I asked to wake me up so I could do homework. Recently, I accidentally fell asleep writing a paper on my computer and I woke up with my cell phone on my ear. My mom was on the line. I was two minutes into the conversation and I had no idea what was said.
I feel as though the sleep I missed out on as a kid tries to catch up with me these days. I cannot fight the love I have for sleep, but my sleep tendencies cost me serious study time.
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I feel like my sleep cycle has changed now that I have been in college. Living in the dorms give me almost no chance to sleep. It is so difficult to go to sleep before midnight in my dorm. All of us are very social and loud. Don't get me wrong I love having this atmosphere, but sometimes I wish there weren't so many distractions. It is most tough having to wake up for early morning rowing practices. I always take naps because then I can catch up. But, I feel like my day is wasted sleeping it away. Maybe next year living in an apartment will be better for my sleep cycle.
ReplyDeleteMelissa Tobia
Don't worry, you're not alone. Sleep cuts down on my study time too. I feel like sleep is my enemy sometimes because it always come whenever I have the most work to do. I would try to nap a little bit and then do my work, but it doesn't work out when my naps take three or four hours. It would be nicer if I were one of those people who could function on little sleep. I would be able to get so many things done! But for now, I think I need to simply manage my sleeping patterns better and try to sleep at a decent time for once.
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