Sleep is a precious thing On Monday I managed to get some golden hours of sleep between 3-something and 7am when the alarm went off. It was such good sleep I lay in bed longer than I should have, savouring the after feeling of all that sleep, like running a finger around a plate to… Continue reading Book book go (7.22)
Tag: Sleep
4am
It's 4am and I'm awake. I'm awake a lot at 4am these days. Is it my bladder, my hormones, my body digesting my dinner? (I knew that eating so late would have a bad effect.) I could use this time as thinking time, but my thoughts are racing around and around - not so much… Continue reading 4am
Break it down again (48.20)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1100QINlo4 Break it down again, no more sleepy dreaming. Good grief, here we are already, approaching the last four weeks of the year. Maybe that's why I have those fluttering feelings of panic in my chest. No, this year the panic is more likely linked to a sense of 'where did all that time go'?… Continue reading Break it down again (48.20)
Last night
Last night I couldn’t sleep. I don’t know why. I tried sleeping on my side, on my front, on my back. My arm hurt when I lay on my side. My face felt swollen when I lay on my front. And when I was on my back, I would be kept awake by the lights… Continue reading Last night
32.20 – the heat goes on
This week's sleep: Noctus interruptus. It's been a difficult time for sleeping over the past week. Last Friday night it was Eid fireworks at 11.30pm, followed by a helicopter hovering for an hour at 3.30am; Saturday night there was some kind of altercation further down our street and a window was smashed, with more arguing… Continue reading 32.20 – the heat goes on
10 albums in 10 days
It was one of those silly Facebook challenge things. I saw my friend Ramona was posting 10 albums in 10 days and challenging one of her friends every day to do the same. "But there's no way she will pick me," I thought.By coincidence, I had just been listening to Human League Dare when I… Continue reading 10 albums in 10 days