Two hours of sleep so far tonight. That'll probably be all, since when I wake up I'm not able to go back to sleep.
I think I'm finally hitting the wall. My eyes are so blurry I'm having trouble typing, even with the screen size enlarged. My brain feels like it is literally swimming inside my head. It's weird. I don't feel exhausted anymore. More like empty, like there's very little of me left. Hollow.
I'm still sick with bronchitis/sinus infection. My seizure frequency is up. I have to think a long time to make things make sense. My dog, who is up when I'm up, has glazed eyes and walks in circles. This is ridiculous. I have to sleep. Or maybe I don't. I googled it, and some people can go for years without sleep. Maybe eventually I'll just get used to it. After all, I'm getting an average of 2-3 hours a night. Maybe that makes me sleep-rich and I'm just being whiney.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_longest_someone_has_gone_without_sleeping So I might be able to go months or years without sleeping, but can my dog?
Gee. How do I spend part of these many hours awake? Writing. Sometimes inane drivel. (see above and below)
I have one more thing to try. In college my boyfriend used to read to me out loud out of "Dante's Inferno" before bed, and it would put me out cold. Sounds like a topic that's not terribly sleep inducing, but it is. The book is mind-numbingly boring. And the words have a certain cadence to them. Read aloud it's hypnotizing. Online I found it on tape, but it's a dramatization. No good. Too interesting. It has to be one guy, reading each line in a rather bored fashion..... I'm so sure this might do it!
My other idea is to listen to Phillip Glass. He writes modern-day opera. His music is typically repetitive and hypnotizing, like a chant rising and falling like leaves in the wind, like a cry echoing through a canyon. Really beautiful and haunting, and his instrumentals are sleep-inducing. One of Glass's operas, Satyagraha, is a political opera which doesn't sound soothing, but it is. I saw it years ago and couldn't stay awake through the thing, which is kind of embarassing seeing I was in an opera hall surrounded by people and nodded off with my head on my date's shoulder. Anyway, maybe it would help to have a constantly looping tape of the thing, just instrumentals, no singing. Not sure how to make it - maybe just the same song 30 times over on a CD.
Here's a piano version of one of Satyagraha's Sonatas, not nearly as wonderful as the symphonic version, but nice anyway. Listen and you'll get what I mean:
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On my failed sleep list: various sleeping pills, hot baths, massage, supplements and herbs, "sleep hygiene," audio effects like falling rain, cold room, warm room, heating my feet up before bed (old wives tale), etc.
Got any more ideas for me? Or are you willing to read and record Dante's Inferno for me? Or maybe have a little Skype session every night - you can read live. lol...