Perchance To Dream

I'm sure I'm not alone in this but getting or not getting a good night's sleep makes a massive difference for me.

Like this weekend, I didn't have great sleeps.  First there was the big wake up earlier this week.  Which made me even more needy for solid sleeps this weekend.  But.... One night I wasn't able to fall asleep due to fighting (?) raccoons.  One fight so bad that one of them was doing that "HELP" cry of pain after.  Another night I was woken up by a bright light when I rolled over.  It wasn't day, it was the full moon!  Not a horrible wakeup but still a disturbance.  And then another night I was woken around four or five am by seagulls just SCREAMING their hearts out.  I've seen them do that during the day but this wasn't daylight and damn it was noisy and yeah I was not feeling great the next day.

Unfortunately, when I went to see a naturopathic doctor person, they suggested that as I age my sleep will get worse and quite honestly I did not need or want to hear that.  What a miserable thought to have put in my head.

When I get a solid night's sleep I'm like a whole different person and yes I try lots of things to manage my sleep and I try not to stress too much about it (ha) but even if I am having a good sleep, I can't do much about animals screaming, you know?

I do have earplugs, but I only pop them in when I have to and I don't think I've ever made an entire night with them in (I seem to pop them out at some point).  My neighbour says she got some new earplugs and is sleeping through everything so maybe I should ask her about them but then I worry I'd sleep through my alarm (she doesn't currently work so just wakes when she wakes) but I suppose I shouldn't worry about that as see above re not making it through the night with them anyway. 

But yeah.  Sleep.  I needs it.  All of it.  All the time.  PHUHLEAZE.