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What is this thing they call 'sleep'?
Mar. 25th, 2006 08:29 pmEver since I was little, I've had a hard time getting to sleep. I would go to bed at a reasonable enough hour, but I would lie there for hours and my brain would just not shut off enough for me to sleep. I'd think about the things I'd done recently, or things I needed to do...all the things they reckon your brain uses dreams for. So I would read for as long as I could, or put the radio on to timer, though it didn't help all that much.
Falling asleep has actually been easier since Rowan arrived - more than anything because I had to sleep, and I was so tired I'd be gone not long after my head hit the pillow. But the quality of my sleep changed, 'cause I was constantly listening out for the little person asleep across the room from me.
Right now, my problem is actually getting myself into bed in the first place. I spend my evenings messing around on the computer - I'm something of a net-addict, plus there's the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
jla_watchtower - and I can usually be found reading fanfiction when I'm not posting in the RPG or doing something in my capacity as a moderator. It is so easy to get caught up in fanfic that even when I can barely keep my eyes open I just cannot turn the computer off...I just keep clicking at the next fic. Most especially when I haven't been having a good day/week/month/year and I just want to be entertained, forget all about it. That's when I tend to stay online till about two in the morning, struggling out of bed at eight to rush through the morning routine.
I really, really wish I could get some sleep. It's been like that for well over a fortnight now. I know, I should be stronger, turn the damn thing off by eleven. But I just can't.
At the moment, I'm reading 'due South' fanfic almost exclusively. The quality of the stories are nothing in comparison to 'Sports Night', for the most part, but it has the advantage of being stuff I haven't already read at least ten times. I'm also watching several episodes a night, refreshing my memory, which has been nice.
( Those stories plus.... )
Falling asleep has actually been easier since Rowan arrived - more than anything because I had to sleep, and I was so tired I'd be gone not long after my head hit the pillow. But the quality of my sleep changed, 'cause I was constantly listening out for the little person asleep across the room from me.
Right now, my problem is actually getting myself into bed in the first place. I spend my evenings messing around on the computer - I'm something of a net-addict, plus there's the
jla_watchtower - and I can usually be found reading fanfiction when I'm not posting in the RPG or doing something in my capacity as a moderator. It is so easy to get caught up in fanfic that even when I can barely keep my eyes open I just cannot turn the computer off...I just keep clicking at the next fic. Most especially when I haven't been having a good day/week/month/year and I just want to be entertained, forget all about it. That's when I tend to stay online till about two in the morning, struggling out of bed at eight to rush through the morning routine.I really, really wish I could get some sleep. It's been like that for well over a fortnight now. I know, I should be stronger, turn the damn thing off by eleven. But I just can't.
At the moment, I'm reading 'due South' fanfic almost exclusively. The quality of the stories are nothing in comparison to 'Sports Night', for the most part, but it has the advantage of being stuff I haven't already read at least ten times. I'm also watching several episodes a night, refreshing my memory, which has been nice.
( Those stories plus.... )
