send me your pillow, the one that you dream on
I'm really tired.
It's all my own fault. It's the unavoidable result of never getting to bed before midnight, spending upwards of 9 hours a day at work, and obsessively exercising 4 or 5 times a week.
I've got nobody to blame but myself.
I keep meaning to get an early night, but it doesn't happen. I never seem to leave work much before 7pm, and if I go out to the gym or something, it's rare that we will eat much before 9pm, and sometimes later. By the time I really should be thinking about going to bed, I find that I'm just not ready. I spend too much time at work to just spend all evening asleep. Books to read, posts to be written, DVDs to be watched, music to be listened to....
When I do finally get to bed, I sleep well, but I rarely dream. Certainly nothing that I can remember, anyway.
What does that say about someone? If dreaming is your subconscious mind working through issues, what does it say about you if you don't dream?
Recently I've started to get night sweats. I'll wake up in the middle of the night and realise that I'm wet through and have soaked the sheets and my pillow. I have to get up to dry myself down, get back into bed and try and to make myself comfortable. I've no idea what's causing it, although it's possible that it's related to the WT's. It's not very pleasant and I hope it stops soon.
Perhaps I'm having terrible dreams but I can't (or won't) remember them when I'm awake. Perhaps it's another reason I'm feeling tired.
I want to know what's going on in my head when I'm asleep. Come to think of it, I want to know what's going on in there when I'm awake too.
If I start dreaming, I'll be sure to let you all know so you can interpret for me.
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In completely unrelated news, and in a rare foray into non-autobiographical writing (ahem), I'm working on a piece for Reader Meet Author about a guy who doesn't dream. I haven't written it yet though, so you'll have to make do with the news that I've started serialising my Nano novel over there.... also completely unautobiographical.
*whistles innocently*
It's all my own fault. It's the unavoidable result of never getting to bed before midnight, spending upwards of 9 hours a day at work, and obsessively exercising 4 or 5 times a week.
I've got nobody to blame but myself.
I keep meaning to get an early night, but it doesn't happen. I never seem to leave work much before 7pm, and if I go out to the gym or something, it's rare that we will eat much before 9pm, and sometimes later. By the time I really should be thinking about going to bed, I find that I'm just not ready. I spend too much time at work to just spend all evening asleep. Books to read, posts to be written, DVDs to be watched, music to be listened to....
When I do finally get to bed, I sleep well, but I rarely dream. Certainly nothing that I can remember, anyway.
What does that say about someone? If dreaming is your subconscious mind working through issues, what does it say about you if you don't dream?
Recently I've started to get night sweats. I'll wake up in the middle of the night and realise that I'm wet through and have soaked the sheets and my pillow. I have to get up to dry myself down, get back into bed and try and to make myself comfortable. I've no idea what's causing it, although it's possible that it's related to the WT's. It's not very pleasant and I hope it stops soon.
Perhaps I'm having terrible dreams but I can't (or won't) remember them when I'm awake. Perhaps it's another reason I'm feeling tired.
I want to know what's going on in my head when I'm asleep. Come to think of it, I want to know what's going on in there when I'm awake too.
If I start dreaming, I'll be sure to let you all know so you can interpret for me.
---
In completely unrelated news, and in a rare foray into non-autobiographical writing (ahem), I'm working on a piece for Reader Meet Author about a guy who doesn't dream. I haven't written it yet though, so you'll have to make do with the news that I've started serialising my Nano novel over there.... also completely unautobiographical.
*whistles innocently*
posted by swisslet @ 21:09
8 Comments:
At 11:50 pm,
Mark said…
i meant... i'd rather have a lover than an iPod.
At 12:39 am,
Alecya G said…
I think you're the kind who would remember a night terror. About those sweats, though, maybe you should talk to the doc about that?
I'd tell you to rest, but I know you won't. You're better when you do somethign anyway, aren't you?
x-AG
At 1:31 am,
HistoryGeek said…
You are dreaming...you just are not remembering your dreams. Without going into a dreaming state, we really do not fully rest (that's why sleep that's disturbed frequently throughout a night is not restful).
Supposedly you can try to remember dreams just by staying in a drowsy state for a few minutes after waking, but I don't know about you...if I'm in a drowsy state when I just wake up, it usually means I'm going to fall back to sleep.
At 7:49 am,
Aravis said…
Like alecya, I think the sweats are worth mentioning to your doctor, especially as this isn't typical for you.
My husband has never had a dream that he remembered. He dreams, as Spin says, but he can't recall having them. He occasionally talks in his sleep though, so I can vouch that the dream-state does occur. I find dreams and the way they work to be quite fascinating...
At 10:35 am,
adem said…
I think you need to et out of the ritual and do something very very exhausting. I think you should go clubbing on Friday Night, crawl in a 4am and then not get up till the pm. Add lots of alcohol into the mix and I think it'll be what you need.
Not the remedy perhaps prescribed by many but I reckon it's worth a go. Your body won't know what's happening!
At 4:07 pm,
Hyde said…
Trust me-- Dreaming is overrated!!!
At 5:29 pm,
Crucifer said…
Hmm...
My dreams are just out and out weird. No really. I once had this dream while on holiday and it was just plain bizarre.
I'll see if I can dig it up - I did post to a dream forum to see what people made of it.
At 9:56 am,
adem said…
A friend of mine used to work, then go home and go to bed, and he dreamt that he was at work, then he'd wake up and go to work. It meant he felt he was contstantly at work! Horrible...unless you absolutely love your job [unlikely]
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