i have known many people who complain about their insomnia with a slight hint of tragic self-emphasis. i have read numerous poems that mention "not being able to sleep" at night, emphasizing the distress that occurs at such hours.
while most people who like to emphasize their disorders do it for pity's sake, those with insomnia seem as if they would not wish it to be any other way. They see themselves on the whole as a tragic victim of life, facing the burden of mortality, insomnia being only another manifestation of their inherent difference from the happy majority. Why, then, is the opposite disorder, narcolepsy, not given so much tragic emphasis? how on earth does a legitimate disorder become a part of a romantic ideal?
i guess you get more done if you have insomnia.
Quote from: Pica Pica on December 29, 2007, 01:16:18 PMi guess you get more done if you have insomnia.
As a sufferer of insomnia myself...for me it's because some of my most creative periods are during those late night times when I can't sleep...something about being tired that reduces the brain's 'logical' functions that allow me to be more in tune with my emotions...some of my best poetry comes from those periods of insomnia...but that's just my take on it.
Peace and love,
Isabelle St-Pierre
Because "insomnia" doesn't involve people "suddenly waking up" in very embarassing or sometimes injurious/possibly life-threatening situations...
You are just up in your livingroom at 3 a.m. on your computer getting silly on this website...which...although that could be considered "injurious" to some, it certainly isn't an "embarassing or life-threatening" state of mind...as of yet...knock on wood...
Suddenly dropping off to sleep in the middle of a "wedding" (especially if you're the bride or groom or minister) does have its "humorously touching and comedaic" aspects to it...
i couldn't sleep on six days on the trot once and that nearly drove me loopy. I went and had a cup of tea on york city walls on the fifth day and someone gave me enough money for another cup of tea thinking I was a tramp.
Its a sort of fifty fifty thing.
But the way people carry on about insomnia is a lil...OTT lol.
I went through a phaze of it and ok, i got stuff done but what a pain in the arse it was!