Disconnect

[maystone]

I am literally staggering because I'm so tired, and yet I can't fall asleep. My brain will not shut down long enough for my body to take over. It's been this way since I was a child, and I still haven't learned how to manage this weird disconnect. Brain worms, I call them; swirling around, thoughts and pictures and snatches of songs and jarring leaps from one subject to another. It's immensely frustrating, even more so when all around you there is the soft snoring of everyone else who can just . . . shut down. How do you do that? I can't be the only one who suffers this noxious form of insomnia, can I? Speak up, out there.

Comments

[malterre.livejournal.com]

Nope, I get something similar accompanied by flashes of white and purple and a sort of bizzare "thump thump" sound and everything becomes reverberated.

But I don't get insominia at the rate that you do...yowza

[maystone.livejournal.com]

Is the "thump, thump" the sound of the blood pulsing in your veins? I get that, too, at times. Are you having a migraine of some kind when you get those flashes?

[malterre.livejournal.com]

I usually just feel light-headed and need to get to sleep.