Did you know?
I can usually go to sleep after I have woken up.
I cannot see any movie in one go, not even a 90 minute English movie. I need to take at least one nap in between. Ask my friends, there have been instances when I have dozed off after the first 30 minutes of the movie, even in a movie theatre, only to wake up at the end and wonder what exactly happened in between. We had been to see Eklavya at the local theatre, and I dozed off in an action-filled scene where Amitabh was crouched on mud in the sweltering heat amidst the slim legs of the camels. The next scene, I see Saif and Amitabh together, only to wonder ke beech mein kya hua.
Wifey claims that she cannot sleep at anytime but night. I wonder why. I just need a place to lie on and close my eyes, telling myself that - you need to fall asleep in the next 10 minutes as if I'm programmed for that. And this way, I can fall asleep even amidst loud music, Tamil soaps where people are screaming and howling at each other, or even the ending of a suspense-filled action-packed movie.
The more exams drew near, the more I used to get sleepy. Instead of getting more tensed, the more I slept. The more I sleep, the sleepier and guiltier I feel. Guilt only increases my tension, making me sleep all the more. Now this is what I call a real life synergistic effect of a vicious cycle.
My naps are as dream filled as you could imagine. My dreams are a potpourri of action-packed, comic, tragic, suspense-filled and romantic melodrama.
Sleep is therapeutic for me. When I am stressed, I prefer sleeping instead of crying.
I believe that only people with a clear conscious can sleep as much as I do.
I have never had to take sleeping pills. Believe me even consuming pills prescribed to make me sleep less wouldn’t help.
I can never breeze through a class without dozing off at least once. Seminars are definitely meant to be slept in. My max concentration time is about an hour. When I can’t sit through a class, I sleep through it. I can even sleep in class with my eyes wide open. And just so that I do not fall asleep, I take my personal diary to classes.
I remember a funny episode when we had a picture exhibition of one of the best wildlife photography. There was a slideshow in a dark room for about an hour, and they were showing pics of animals in the order of their biological classification. This meant that the order would be like this-
Ø Plants and trees
Ø Microbes (bacteria, virus)
Ø Protozoa
Ø Porifera
Ø Cnidarians (jellyfish)
Ø Platyhelminths (flatworms)
Ø Annelids (roundworms and earthworms)
Ø Arthropods (cockroach, spider, prawn, shrimp)
Ø Mollusk (snails)
Ø Echinoderms (starfish)
Ø Fish
Ø Amphibians
Ø Reptiles
Ø Birds
Ø Mammals
Well, I remembered till the Cnidarians. With the darkness and the AC going full blast, who cared? When I woke up, they were almost at the end of the slideshow, showing the picture of monkeys and tigers. And I had gasped aloud- “But how did they come to monkeys so soon? Khatam ho gaya kya?” My friends still pull my leg about that episode.
While I travel in a train, all I need is the upper berth. I love the rocking motion of the train. Barring occasional loo breaks and food breaks, I have dozed the entire length of tracks from the North to the South.
I can never read a book on the bed to relax. I eventually fall asleep. I need to be wide awake and upright in the study even to see a movie or read a novel.
They say I sleep a lot. I say my heavy-duty batteries take a little more time to get charged.
It often happens that I fall asleep in the afternoons, only to wake up in the fading light of the evenings to imagine it to be the dawns of the early morning and start getting ready for office.
If I am hungry and there is no food at home and I am too lazy to cook or to go out to eat, I can fall asleep in order not to feel the hunger.
There have been more than one occasion when I have fallen asleep prior to the day of the examination, only to wake up the next morning and realize that I haven’t yet started to study.
Back in my home town, I couldn’t sleep in loud music or even if the night bulb glowed. After coming here, life has been so stressed and my work requires such weird hours that I have trained myself to catch occasional naps amidst work. I sleep on the couch in the house amidst the droning of the idiot box. Unfamiliar surroundings do not bother me anymore.
I once applied to a study where all you had to do was sleep, while they traced your sleeping and dreaming patterns. I wish they had selected me. I even wish that there was a job with a good pay where you were expected to sleep and only sleep.
I have slept through Sleepless in Seattle, Sleeping with the enemy, and Eyes wide shut. I haven’t yet tried with the movies Jaagte Raho.
Unlike other lovers, I can never claim that I have lost sleep thinking of someone. Who cares?
If they made a movie about me, I’d never let them name it Sona Manaa Hai. Guess what I’d make them name it? Guess guess?
1 SLEEPY IDIOT
All said and done, I lead as much of an active life as anyone else would. I eat, I dance, I attend classes and hang around with friends, I go for biking, I blog, and I do a lot more. It is just that I take sleep as seriously as any other thing I do in life.
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