Saturday, December 11, 2004

   15 hours of sleep... beat that! I dare you to!
What is with my wallpaper? It keeps dissapearing on me, then my compy suddenly says that the URL doesn't exist. Next day it's back and works perfect. Is this with only my compy or am I not alone here? I mean, can other people see the wallpaper and it's just my compy.


Well, I had an interesting day. I went to sleep at about 1:30 A.M. last night. My mother woke me up for school at about 6:A.M. I am beginning to think that my symptoms aren't just from that evil pen. My throat was burning like fire, my head had enough pressure to kill a small dog, my nose was burning and plugged, and I was deaf in my left ear. Writing this I can still taste that ink in my mouth. Well, I managed to stay home from school (9th abscence.) I went right back to sleep 10 minutes later. Then I slept and slept... Had some pretty cool dreams. Can't remember them, but I remember they were cool. I slept until it was 5:00 PM! That's a solid 15 hours of sleep!

Unusual sleeping habits have followed me for years. For some reason, my internal clock wills me to be awake between 11:00 PM and 4:00 A.M. whether I like it or not regardless of how little sleep I get. The only reason why I fell asleep last night was because I was sick. So I usually get about 2 Hours of sleep each school night, and because my father is going through his male menapaus (can't...spell...), he wants me to be awake at a "decent hour". Which is usually 10 in the morning. So I get about 6 hours of sleep on weekends.

Rinse and repeat this for 4 years. I get very little sleep, and in the mornings I can fall asleep nearly anywhere doing anything. I once fell asleep while walking! Didn't stay asleep for long, but I dozed off walking and eventually ran head-first into a wall. I'm glad that all my teachers let me sleep in their classes when I'm done working. Otherwise I don't know what would happen. I've even stayed awake all night in a few instances.

Drugs don't help it, and my father, who has omnipotent control over what schedules I should sleep, doesn't believe me. Apparently him waking up and seeing me awake on school nights over and over at 3:00 A.M. just doesn't click in his head. So I have recieved very little sleep over my teenage years. The only time I ever NOT have trouble sleeping is in the day time.

I'm wondering if I'm alone in this world of insomia. I mean, I'm showing the symptoms of a guy who had developed a tumor in his head when he was young. This thing chronically kept him awake, and until he died from a lack of sleep, he was awake for over a month-strait!

Then again, I seriouly doubt that I am going to be the second person in the world for that to happen to.

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