I Live To Fall Asleep

Untitled Red Clouds, Prij, 2007

I like to sleep, and as a young adult I maximise the hours in which I do just that. But first lies the age old problem of falling asleep - the very thing that keeps me awake.

For those of us with active minds, simply switching off is difficult. When I lie awake in bed, my mind races. It always races when I'm without anything else to do. To give you an idea of how hard it is just to stop thinking: this post was drafted in my head when I tried to blank my mind. For a few minutes I didn't even realise. I hear my voice in my head. As I finalise this post, I'm transcribing my internal stream of consciousness.

It's not that bad since it of course places me cognitively far above the readers of Kidz Newz and the viewers of Big Brother (Oh, how the masses love our Orwellian future). The only way I can escape it and fall asleep is to listen to music. Since I got my iPod Nano for my birthday, I've repeatedly fallen asleep with it on, waking up with the headphones strangling me. I continually fall asleep to Seeing Out The Angel by Simple Minds. And not because I don't like it.

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