On Sleep!

Sleep - such a huge infatuation! (Of mine at least.) I looked in the mirror on Sunday morning (scary, I know) and noticed that I looked different - I actually looked alive, awake. I had actually gotten a decent amount of sleep, and it showed. Crazy that something we sometimes take for granted and do not get enough of can impact us in so many different ways - crankiness, inability to pay attention in class, inability to function properly, desperation for caffeine, and more...
Yet on the other side, at times you can't help but not wanting to sleep - you don't care that you are missing out on that unconscious heaven, because you are afraid of what you are missing! I admit that I am a night owl, and it's mostly because I am too concerned with staying up - socializing, watching that enticing show (it had a great preview!), just hanging out - or during the school year studying and doing homework.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late. ~Charles Caleb Colton

Here are a fun couple of other quotes about sleep and naps, too:

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up. ~Ellen Goodman

Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds. ~JoJo Jensen, Dirt Farmer Wisdom, 2002

I'm not asleep... but that doesn't mean I'm awake. ~Author Unknown


People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. ~Leo J. Burke

If a man had as many ideas during the day as he does when he has insomnia, he'd make a fortune. ~Griff Niblack
* so true, I have so many great ideas when I am lying in bed - or in the shower*

and just for fun, here is a great poem by one of my favorites, Wordsworth, on sleeplessness:

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by
One after one; the sound of rain, and bees
Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas,
Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky -
I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie
Sleepless...
~William Wordsworth, "To Sleep"

oh to sleep ....