With all the fill_in_the_blank for Dummies books available, I wonder if there is one on sleeping. I struggle with a minor thing called insomnia.

I don't get it. I'm sleeping, and then I start to come out of it just a little. Suddenly some bored neurons decide to run a drill with the axons and dendrites, and the next thing I know my synapses are firing on all eight cylinders about some inane thing.

Most folks think that there must be something that can be done to take advantage of this affliction. That's because they have never frickin' experienced it. Your brain is focusing on stupid things, not useful things. Like while I'm typing, my brain is actually wondering " why is his head tilted over to the side a little as he writes? It's not a natural position. There! His head is now tilted forward a little. Still, now he has to look at the screen from under his cro-magnon forehead." Meanwhile I have a schematic staring at me on the desk that could easily suck up the time my brain is spending on worrying about the alignment of my head and neck. Stupid brain (in my best Homer Simpson voice).



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