The World’s Longest Nap

June 5, 2011

Last night was only my 4th night of being able to sleep, at night. For several weeks before that I was stuck in an odd sleep cycle. No matter what I did I was only sleepy at 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon. A couple of times I managed not to go to sleep at that time, hoping to get back on schedule but, when bed time came around 10:00 p.m. I could not fall asleep. I just laid in bed until about 5 a.m. and finally had to get up. Then at 1:00 p.m. I crashed. This went on for days.

Finally I got the idea that I would use sleeping pills. So I managed not to go to sleep at 1:00 p.m., stayed awake until around 10 p.m., took a sleeping pill and never went to sleep. I was pissed! So of course at 1:00 p.m. I crashed, and hard too because of the sleeping pill.

Eventually I stopped trying to fight the 1 p.m. crash and just started taking the sleeping pill at night for bed time. That worked to give me about 4 hours of sleep. However, the sleeping pill caused me to fall asleep even earlier in the day, around 10 a.m.. Now I was sleeping day and night. This went on for weeks.

After praying about it the Lord told me to just stop fighting it, so I did. I quit taking the sleeping pills and stopped fighting. If I got sleepy I went to bed. Amazingly, one day I wasn’t sleepy during the day, and lasted until bed time. Behold, I fell asleep around 11 p.m and slept nearly the whole night. My sleep cycle has been normal for about 4 days now. I feel so much better. I really don’t know what caused me to get off so badly. Anyway, I hope it doesn’t happen again too soon.