Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Weird realizations during another sleepless night

Okay, so it's been another one of those nights where sleep has eluded me completely. Honestly, I do begin to feel a bit knackered now, but I came across some weird realizations during the night and just thought I would get them out of my system.

1) Have you ever noticed how, when you put your hands together, they are not quite the same size!? In my case my left hand is a little bigger than my right hand and the fingers on my left hand are a little longer than those on the right hand. However, the same is not the case with ones feet...

2) Have you ever noticed just how silent an appartment building is during the night!? It's been so quiet and silent here that I have even been able to hear my left side neighbour cough in her sleep and those below me making serious love - I turned on some music (not too loud, though, since I wanted to be able to hear my own thoughts). Hmm, I can see how some might percieve this, but I honestly detest being involuntarily involved in other peoples private lives and love-making is considerably private!

3) How about listening to the wind outside!? It has a kind of momentous aggression to it when one listens to it in the still of the night. The way it howls and groans and moans in its constant search for... for what!?

4) How there's never anything worth watching on tele after midnight!? Kinda reminds me of why I have been so stubborn about getting a tv again. Only stupid re-runs and reality shows, yikes!

5) How moss grows on ones teeth during the early morning hours when day breaks outside!? And not just in the early morning hours - but I have already brushed my teeth several times during the night and will have to do it again before I turn in.

6) How annoying the sound of other peoples alarm clocks are and how they are also the kind of people to snooze the alarms 3-4 times before actually getting out of bed!? He, somehow it's rather comforting to know that I am not the only one...

7) How, during the night, ones bladder seems to be in a weakened state so that one must rush several times to the bathroom. Which in itself might not be surprising when I consider the masses of tea I have been drinking during the night...

8) How a simple game of strategy on the computer seems to have an extra special touch to it when it's played during the night... He... So nice to totally disappear into another completely unreal world for a couple of hours...

All in all the conclusion must be that the brain goes on stand-by during the night-hours, regardless of whether you're awake or not... And that simply based on a pressing thought that none of my weird realizations are in fact worth while...

1 comment:

TheDelphinus said...

Nothing quite like beeing able to contemplate the unbearable lightness of being. Mind you, it's better when done in harmony with nature. As in under a deep black sky where one can watch the stars move. Or as in lying on the grass, listening to the birds and watching the skies with their different features. Or as sitting on a big boulder watching the ocean. Nights alone seem to be time for unconstructive rantings and ravings. Mind you, discovering that my left hand is a tiny bit longer than my right was a bit mindblowing ;-)