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A Book With a Threatening Aura
I really did try pretty much everything to sleep. In 2017, I picked up I Can Make You Sleep: Overcome Insomnia Forever and Get the Best Rest of Your Life! Book and CD by…
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The Machines That Help Us Breathe
That’s what claws at me about insomnia. I wonder if Dad felt that, too. Sleeping, breathing, those are innate. Our body is supposed to be able to run those systems on autopilot. You don’t…
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Sleep and Work
Once I took a call and completed an over-the-phone interview while half asleep. It was a reasonable time, 10 AM or something, but I was in a “up all night, down all day” cycle.…
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Falling Asleep in Class
Already an apt lyric, one of my friends misheard “I’m so tired but I can’t sleep” from Sarah McLachlan’s “I Will Remember You” as “I’m so tired that I can’t see.” Getting to sleep was not the problem, dealing with…
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What’s the beginning game?
I never asked my sleep doctor what the final goal was regarding sleep and wake times. I think part of me assumed change was impossible. And honestly it was; many afternoons, I cried on…
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the heating mat
One of my cats has arthritis. I got her a heating mat. She is, at best, indifferent to it. One of my other cats, however, loves it. She runs to it when I enter…
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Prom
My dad died about a month before prom. Mom and I passed the time between ICU visits by going to the mall and looking at accessories. The theme: What Dreams May Come. I protested…
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Saved by the Bell
Despite having no official bedtime as a child, I still went to sleep, and slept for the appropriate amount for someone my age. So it still took some convincing for Mom to let me…
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“That’s Messed Up”
I told my husband about a dream I had last night. Me: You know how I dream about the same places? Like I often dream about grocery stores. But that’s a category, the stores…
I just wanted to get some rest.
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