To Create A Yesterday, You Must Sleep!

Sleep... or what I would like to call it... deaths little sister... I know, sounds kinda morbid, but if you really think about it... what separates it from death?  Dreams... Nightmares... and I guess actually waking up the next day. Ha! :Sorry

I've always hated sleep my whole life.  Because instead of nice dreams of bunnies frolicking through the grassy medows, I normally have nightmares, I know... sad eh?.  I've had them since I was a kid, some reoccuring, some very strange, and some just downright disturbing.  I won't go into detail about them, as I swore to keep this blog positive, and I've already started out kind of negative with the death/nightmare thing... I'll be good... I promise!! (maybe I'll create a separate blog just about the dreams I've had... I could write a book or two, seriously!!)

The reason I'm talking about sleep is because of a recent involuntary break I took from it... Saturday night I was having a few brewskies, having a chat with my buddy up in Alberta, and we were playing some online poker like we normally do.  My girlfriend was "Out Da Shore", which is where shes from (about an hour outside of St. John's), babysitting her niece and newphew for the night.  So she called me 1:30, and said goodnight, and I told her I was on the way to bed myself, asI just hung up from talking to my buddy... Haha... Do you see where this is going...???

Yeaaaaaaaaaaa... that didn't happen... I of course, went back into the poker like a crack fiend.  OK! Let me stop right here for a second and explain something about poker... when your winning... whoa buddy!!..  its like a rush... its like a drug... could be the adrenaline... or the mere excitement keeping your body from crashing... beacuse I was NOT getting tired at all... and I was after having a couple beers, so you'd think I'd get a tad bit lazy, and want to sleep.. NOPE... I was HIGH AND MIGHTY, PROUD AND POWERFUL... there was NO stopping me...

Back to the story... I was playing poker... I was winning... I was on a ROLL!!... I didn't notice the hours going by like seconds, and how the light... which was now not shining from my living room outside onto the glistening snow on my balcony... but starting to reverse in polarity... and now shining in my apartment... "HOLY SWEET GOD, WHAT TIME IS IT!?!"... I said to myself in a manic panic... when I looked at the clock it was past 8am. I was completely blown away from my lack of attention to the time... AND how I turned my $42.50 bankroll into $200... WOOHOOOO!!!  (sidenote: I cashed out $135 and kept the rest to build back up again)... I soooo wanted to keep going... I bet I could have turned that into $500... Who was going to stop me?  My Nemisis SLEEP... HAHAHAH... Now way!!  You're not the boss of me sleep!... Fortunately my conscious kicked in... and explained to me I had things to do on Sunday... I had a double date... a dinner and a movie... YOU HAVE to go to bed and sleep... I had to sleep... sleep... sleeeeeeeeep!  You're probably thining I'm crazy at the moment... but yes, I more than likely talking to myself at this point...

But my mind, she was not listening to my consciousness... not listening to reason... it would not stop racing and pacing... it was just turning around and around like a record player on the highest setting (78 RPM? wait... "wtf is a record player" says the 16yr old born in 1995? BARF!).  I couldn't stop thinking about poker... about winning... about the fact that it was 8am in the freaking morning, and I should have been sleep for 6-7hours already.  Luckily I was so tired that my body just gave up, and finally I drifted off to La La Land... But the sleep was not constant or solid.  I kept dreaming of a paragraph of words... maybe I was dreaming about a blog post... but it was just like someone copied a paragraph (CTRL+C) and then pasting the paragraph (CTRL+V)... over and over and over and over... it was so weird... and I'd wake up every few mins... so this went on until about  12:30ish when I just said shag it, and got up... lets just say... the whole day... it seemed like it was just a dream, you know what I mean... everything really hazy... and it just feels like its not reality (Gee I hope I'm not the only person who've experienced this!)... Thank god everything went smooth with the double date dinner and the movie (Just Go With It) was pretty darn good as well!! (I thought I was being dragged into a chick flick... it was kinda at the end... but it was pretty funny the whole way... and lets just say... it was also entertaining for the male brain! :P)

So here I am... a couple days later... and I am still so tired and dragged out from staynig up all night... its totally not worth it.  Anyway, I hope this was entertaining for you guys... its a little different from my previous two posts... I have to say, trying to think about things to write about will be challenging... So, don't expect a daily update to this blog for a while!

So the moral to this blog is this... Sleep IS IMPORTANT!!  Not only does it affect your overall physical health... it keeps your mental health in check as well... so sleep tight... don't let the bed bugs bite!~


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Peace & Positivity!