Sunday, June 17, 2007
Beyond the witching hour
There comes that point during tiredness when you hit a wall. When despite you best intentions your body and mind shut down, leaving no recourse but sleep. But then there are times, infrequent for some, frequent for others, when you go beyond this. When you manage seemingly to conquer the very need for sleep. Tiredness somehow fades away. 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock, 1 o'clock, 2 o'clock 3 o'clock and so it go on. And throughout, you find yourself in a strange netherworld when night is day and day is night. And you, you just watch as the clock ticks away. Knowing that ultimately you are on borrowed time. For whatever happens, sleep will win in the end.
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Insomnia is an unwelcome guest whether it is brought in by internal or external reason. My reason, last weekend, was the external kind. Very early Saturday morning, just as I was about to fall asleep, the room I was sleeping in was entered by two young men banging together pots and singing "no one's going to sleep tonight, no one's going to sleep tonight". Not a very gentle way to wake someone up and so I was actually happy, when an hour later, having decided to wake everyone up again, these two tanked gentlemen changed their tactics to wearing next to nothing and nothing at all and singing "it's business, it's business time..." (inspired by the Flight of the Conchords)
And how was your Midsummer's Eve?
Not quite as eventful as that. I think most people here were tucked up in bed with a good book and cup of warm milk!
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