Insomnia…please release me
And now for a bit of the mundane…
I´m currently being plagued by some serious insomnia! Well…not the inability to sleep part…just the falling asleep part…
(Perhaps I need a nice boring hobby…like model ship building!)
Over the last few days my bedtime keeps finding me later and later!
My first night in Sevilla I didn´t fall asleep till 3am…even though I´m been up since 6am, having had to catch a bus. I thought it was simply because the book I was reading was good that I wasn´t getting tired.
The next night…3:30ish before sleep came. (Mind you I´m not going out partying here…I´m laying in bed trying to get some shut eye.) The next night, around 4am.
And the kicker…last night I couldn´t fall asleep till 6am! I got out of bed and took a walk. I even got a beer from the hostel vending machine. (I swear, it was out of water!)
I´m going BATTY!
Once I´m asleep I sleep like the dead, all but throwing my alarm across the room in the morning. (This morning I simply picked it up, turned it off, and fell back to sleep with it in my hand.)
Now I´ve been plagued by bouts of insomnia for as long as I can remember, but it´s simply different on the road…in a strange room, in a strange bed, with the intent of getting a good start in the mornig in order to see all those wonderful sights! It´s a highly frustrating and self-perpetuating problem!
Today, all I´ve done is take a 2 hour lunch…about all I had energy for…especially having cut caffeine from my life in hopes of getting some decent sleep. (Que triste! No café con leche!)
I´m starting to look like the undead…the dark circles under my eyes are creeping downward and getting darker every moment. My eyes are blood shot. My feet are like lead. My brain is barely functioning…tired of looking at pretty buildings and art. My body is withering…sick of the heat.
Now I know…living the dream and all that…but unless I get some sleep…well, it´s becoming more like a nightmare!
It´s 7pm and I could go to sleep now…even though the sun won´t set for 3 hours….and it would just make things worse anyway.
I need a good cup of camomille tea…or a sedative…I can´t decide.
Yawn…
Tags: Spain
LizG