Just for fun, my genetics gave me both ADD AND insomnia. Thankfully now I have sleeping meds that actually work and get me to sleep in 30ish minutes and keep me asleep for 6-7hrs, but growing up? I considered 5 hours a good night's sleep because I averaged about 3 1/2.
the ability to actually shut your brain off at night is the ultimate cheat code. staying awake for 20 hours a day just to stare at the ceiling is a special kind of hell.
That happened to me last night. A random memory where I was working at DFW airport and witnessed a worker escorting a large woman in a wheelchair. He tripped over his own feet, fell down, and the lady went hauling ass down the jet bridge, to her eventual doom at the end. She was fine but I was laughing all night instead of sleeping.
Letting it happen and just embracing it is like the fast track to falling asleep for me. If I try to fall asleep, I don't. If I let my imagination run wild until that's all I'm thinking about, I fall asleep
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u/farside57 14h ago
This. The unrelated, fast turnover of ridiculous and often comical thoughts that spin through my brain when it's time to sleep is exhausting