Damage

The joy of a bed

Our well-being can be drastically affected when we don’t get the right amount of quality sleep. Those who are unable to go to sleep at all, die within a few weeks. It is a period where the mind is still active, condensing and sorting information gathered during the time awake. All those conversations whittled down and purged.

If you are touched whilst you are asleep, this interrupt may become an aspect of your dreams. On the whole you are pretty much oblivious to what is going on around you. This has a likeness to when you pass away. While you are fast asleep, billions of others are beavering away.

Getting off to sleep can be a struggle for some. I find it very hard if I have any kind of dialogue going on in my head. If you start considering what you want to say and imagine their probable responses, you are likely to be doing so well into the night.

Do you judge people by the hour in which they prise themselves out of bed? Are late risers lazy, and early ones schemers? During spells of working late, well past midnight, I would not get up very early and people were keen to admonish me for it. People also think that you can adjust your body clock to anytime that you want. Try getting up three hours earlier than normal. Most get a feeling of utter inner tiredness as their body temperature remains out of sync. There is a notable difference between fitting in with a society and following the same precise pattern as the headstrong goaders. You do the same just in a different order or at a different time in the day.

There can be times where a dream has a bearing on reality. Someone had a dream once where lots of people were talking but no sound was coming from their mouths. When they awoke their voice was permanently broken. I was plagued by some nightmares for years that revolved around a small horror then a bigger one and so on. It was years later that I realised these correlated to some small mistake or large thing I had done wrong. The fear of failure and pressure from inflexible characters. Only a new life away from the stress of the situation allowed these to fade. My bad dreams haven’t stopped completely, but they take a different form to this and only occur when too hot or when excessively spiced food was eaten late in the evening. The worst is when you are semi-awake but can’t move. At the back of the neck there is a shut off mechanism and if that is not switched fully you have a frustrating few minutes of trying to re-engage the body.

The less pleasant dreams are dwarfed by the rather marvellous ones where you can fly high and move in ways that reality can’t compete with. No mention of the personal encounters with imaginary folk need writing about apart from to say that they were as good as those in everyday life. The frequent dreams of being in elevators trying hopelessly to get to a desired level, sometimes using some stairs as a get around, don’t seem to have any notable point. Lifts that move sideways and in manners outside of typical engineering possibilities add to the experience. Some might say that is because you are trying to go up in life or find workarounds but as they say that to everyone their dream analysis is probably dreamt up.