There was a short lecture about sleep deprivation yesterday. Frankly, it wasn’t amusing or surprising but something stuck with me until today. It’s how people believe in supernatural despite all their logic and common sense: “Yes, I know that you can’t predict someone’s future over a dream, but how can you explain to me that I saw things before they’ve happened?”
I love sleeping. Since my teenage when I’ve had problems sleeping during high school final exams, I’ve created a schedule for myself and whenever I stay too late I’m almost passing out. I sleep 7-9 hours per day regularly and this schedule feels the best. My dreams are colorful, regular, very prolonged and intense: I see dramatic scenes, can smell perfume and food, hear beautiful music and noises. My best dreams have plots with climax and epilogue, and I like them despite being scary or sad, and remember them, long after they pass. thanks to my dreams I feel like I’ve been to a volcano eruption, in an abandoned theatre, in a moving building and flying on a huge air balloon. I desperately write all the best plots down hoping one day to get a use of them, but they only worth for telling anecdotes, which’s no different from describing an old movie to someone who can never watch it.
The lecture has started with a question about sleep paralysis, when you already awake, but can’t move. It’s even hard to breathe and some people may feel like someone is choking them during sleep paralysis. Of course, you start to panic and sweat, but it usually is not a sign of any problems in your body. So if you ever have it, just try to get back to sleep, don’t stay too late, and stay away from oily and fat food in the evening.
Good night.