I just can't get no sleep tonight

[venta]

If asked to list things I'm good at, I'd put "sleeping" really near the top of the list. I can sleep anywhere, through anything, at very short notice. I'm crap at getting up, but boy can I sleep.

On Friday night I went to bed at an unusually late 2am, after a pleasant evening with davefish, lanfykins and hendybear. From under my duvet I could hear Hendybear and Lanfykins talking and laughing in the next room... as I failed to go to sleep til nearly 5. I should add that they weren't keeping me awake - I'm used to sleeping through the sounds of voices (and I'd have gone and asked them to shut up if it was a problem).

However, since I had an early morning on Saturday, I got very little sleep. The two nights since then I've fallen into bed quite tired (late on Saturday after a hen-night, and early last night because I was knackered) and gone to sleep, only to wake up somewhere around 5am. This is not good, and it's not like me. And I don't like it.

So I'm rather short on sleep at the moment, and feeling very flaky at work. My ravel'd sleeve has not been knit up. However, I observer that a surprising number of people seem to be claiming lack of sleep at present. Is there some kind of plague of insomnia hitting the nation ?

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Comments

[kissifa.livejournal.com]

The reason I've put better than usual is because normally where I'd get up in the night, I don't now, and have been lazing in bed till mid-afternoon on weekends to make up for the sleep lost in the week. :)

My personal explanation is our eyes are getting tricked by the brighter light in the morning as spring progresses and summer approaches, and making us think it's later than it is!