When you can't sleep at night, what do you think about?

Answer 1

When I can't sleep yet my eyes are too tired for *one more* late-night online session....*lol*....my mind wanders to one of four big questions usually?

--Will I always be alone? Really...seems like most days it doesn't matter how much I try to get out and do stuff and be positive, because I am really plain-looking and shy in real life and can't get any chances to say hi to people, especially the ladies, and to actually *make friends* but especially girlfriends.....

--Will everything around me fall apart in my lifetime? More specifically, will my nation decay into barbarity, rot and ruin all over in the next two years, the way New Orleans was allowed to do so post-Katrina? Yeah, I am a bit more liberal (not that much though) than most "mainstream" Americans who apparently take Fox News in by IV Drip and expect their infant young to potty train themselves by their boot-straps out back in the outhouse the way their *great*-grandparents did....*lol*....But yeah, it really worries me how FUBAR my country and culture are, and how little people seem to *care* about it all, except in that media-hyped fake-hate sort of way.....

--How can I stay focused and motivated, so I can get better, and get myself a life here, when *your* society around me, the society of the well-off and privileged, doesn't want me getting better and would rather I not even have the little tiny pittance of income I have, never mind any more? Why should I "get better" when I won't be able to find meaningful work without being punished for having it, and when I won't be able to live my life as I see fit without folks getting in my face, *doubling and tripling my rent*, shafting me with FULL COSTS for my medications when *nobody* else has to deal with this on non-psychiatric medical issues, and basically doing all they can to screw me over?

I know, not much different from the second point above, except that it is more personal, and about how *I* can live my life, get better and get a life without all of *you* putting the screws to me. :P

--Am I even from *around* here in the first place? No offense meant, but it seems like the longer I am here, the more and more I feel like I am living on the Planet of the Apes, that I am one of maybe a handful of people left who a) still think before they speak, b) still know what an "indoor voice" is when out in public, c) still know how to spell, use complete sentences and *care to do so*, d) still have some sense of ettiquette and manners, to the point of actually caring *not* to embarrass others out in public, e) still *care* about the feelings of others to the point of not *wanting* to be a rude and inconsiderate jerk, and f) still want to believe that there is a point to being a civilized member of society, that is supposed to oh, I dunno, reward folks for being law-abiding and doing the *right* thing (not the rightwad thing mind you, but the "right thing" as in a course of action that is correct and proper for the circumstances).

Am I even from around here in the first place, or am I an alien from a planet of intelligent and civilized people, who was dumped here and sentenced to life among the hordes of nattering numbskulls....? I mean, not to be a complete, condescending pinhead about it, but come on, hasn't anyone else here *ever* had a day where they just felt like, "Geeez, am I the *only* one left on this planet who isn't a retarded inbred humanoid? Am I the last one left here with a brain and the habit of using it?"

Yeah, as you might imagine, I don't get a whole lot of sleep lately.

My life sucks, and it just isn't safe for me to be *me* around here. And lately, for the most part, it is NOT my fault.

Oh well, sorry to bore you with my fixation on those complete words, nouns and verbs, and the idea of actually fully saying what I was going to say. I know, I type too much, I should switch over to SMS Bizarro-speak so others can understand me....

Right. *lol* I've already done that as much as I can stomach, thank you. ;)

Answer 2

Me too. did not get to sleep till about a million a.m. and that i had to be up at 7. I awoke very drained, fantastically because I tossed and became all evening. And even as i ultimately fell right into a snooze deep adequate to dream, I had a nightmare. what's up with the universe?

Answer 3

Sleep.

Answer 4

As Leader of the Hideous Barbaric Hordes of Planet Zorktron, I have no need of sleep. To "fit in" to your human existence, however, I pretend to sleep all night. During those times, I usually occupy my far superial dual core, quad-SLI brains with simple matrix operations fit to boundary and initial conditions that maximally contain warp cores in propulsion systems.
Hope this answers your question.

Answer 5

de_evilpenguin's list of things he thinks about when he cant sleep:

1) why am i not sleeping?
2) maybe another beer would help...
3) still awake....
4) damn, gotta pee
5) what am i going to eat for supper tomorrow?
6) do i even feel like eating supper tomorrow?
7) gas is getting to expensive, i cant even afford to get to work...
8) hey, why not quit working?
9)why am i still awake?
10) whats on TV?
11) TV sucks at 3 in the morning
12) gotta pee again
13) wait a minute...nope, not asleep
14) how cool would it be to have a "mini-me"?

yes, i got issues. :)

Answer 6

10 Tips to Sleep Well
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Insomnia – Beat it with Sleep
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Insomnia - Treatment
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Answer 7

The past...the choices in my life which have led up to this moment. I think about the men I've loved, childhood friends...I make mental notes to reconnect with some of them, but they are never realized. I think about loved ones who have crossed over and I think about my own demise...How will I die? When will I die? Who will attend my funeral?...Then I drift off to sleep.

Answer 8

Ambien

Answer 9

I think about sheep jumping over the moon with a spoon.... but not an ordinary spoon, its a super spoon that helps them to jump really high in order to jump over the moon. But its not an ordinary moon, its a moon that changes colour, dependind on which sheep jumped over it, because they're not ordinary sheep, they're tiedye sheep!

Answer 10

If I could quit worrying about what was keeping me awake, I could go to sleep.