Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Self Realization

I might do a series of these, if they turn out to be any good...

A thought popped into my head the other day: I like to sleep.

That wasn't the thought, but give me a second.

I like to sleep a lot. I like the idea of giving my eyes a rest and cozying up in my quilt to give myself over to a well deserved rest (even though I may have been on my butt, sitting in front of my laptop all day long). But I've been having difficulties falling asleep these past few months, and I don't know why.
One, I don't stress easy because I procrastinate a lot...That's a weird statement, but it's true. If something stresses me out, I leave it, don't touch it, put it off until the last possible moment. And this works for me, strangely enough. Therefore, I should be able to fall asleep...NOT.
Two, I listen to ASMR and I have ASMR. It's nice, feeling tingles in the back of my head and all over my body. Some times, it works. Other times, it doesn't. I keep searching for that ultimate ASMRtist or video that will let me fall asleep without fail. So far, nothing. And I'll keep looking. Lots of videos have relaxed me and have let me fall asleep (after listening to it 18 times on my iPod), but it's not automatic when I wish it was.
Three, when I do sleep, I sleep like a rock...I sleep well. (I move around in my sleep; rocks don't move.) And I'd like to reach this stage ASAP.

Ok, all of this was leading up to this: I like to be cold when I sleep. This is a strange statement too. But hear me out. I'm a hot person. As in, I'm usually the person people sidle up to because they're cold and they need a heater. I am that human heater.

Last night, I left my window open. (It's getting to the point where the weather is being somewhat nice and warming up so I'm allowed to leave my window open, so the heating bill won't be ridiculous.) And I fell asleep almost instantly. It was sooooo nice. And when I woke up, I had realized I had gotten a decent 9.5 hours of sleep. Which hasn't happened in a long time.

If I was allowed to leave my window open during the winter months (which I'm not, because heating is a bitch, and cold air causes the house to cool which causes the boiler to kick in...This was the point I was trying to get at in the earlier parentheses; my parents pay the bill), I would have had awesome sleeps!
Alas, this was not to be, so I'll be catching up on a lot of sleep these next few weeks! WOOHOO!

Got any weird sleeping habits/rituals/necessities? Tell me :)

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