Can I go home yet?

[caddyman]

I didn’t sleep so well last night, which means this morning my eyes appear to be red both on the inside and the out. At 2:45 I was still wide awake, too hot and with fidgety feet. When I get fidgety feet it generally means that there’s no point in trying to wait it out and doze off, so I got up and made a cup of tea and pootled around on the internets for a while, interspersing indignant insomniac Tweets on Twitter with opaque and baroque Tweets courtesy of EchoBazaar.

I finally went back to bed at around 3:40 and sometime shortly after 4:00 must have dozed off. My feet were no longer fidgety, but I was still too hot. Of course, by 7:30 when the radio came on, I felt like lead and my head was full of impressions of cake, which I seem to have been dreaming about, though any and all further details left me almost immediately.

I have concluded, from reading my friends’ page, and on the basis of wild speculation only, that there is only so much sleep to go around and it was my turn to maintain part of the mass consciousness whilst others slept. Other people report sleeping like the dead; I am part of the way there. This morning I am walking like the dead.

Comments

[ellefurtle.livejournal.com]

I think the house got too hot yesterday evening so was still too warm at bedtime. Maybe we turn it off again for a bit or haev less time? Or we could run you round the block a few times to tire you out :D

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

I commiserate with your sleeplessness. I managed to finally drop off around half three-ish, woke up briefly to make the Missus a coffee and then slept like the dead for several more hours. Your "only enough sleep to go around" theory intrigues me and I would like to see you get a grant to research it, if only because designing the experiments would be great fun and could even make a good Live-Action Game.

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

I too think the "only so much sleep to go around" theory requires proper research, if only to find out who get to dole it out.