The All-Nighter

My sleep schedule is all fucked up. I really haven’t been able to get to sleep before 5am in a couple weeks. I’m not really sure why, but I have a couple ideas.

1) I have a severe case of arachnophobia and my house has recently become infested with millions of the eight legged beasts. I’m not really sure what’s up with my fear of those things. I’m not actually afraid of them harming me in any way. It just *ugh* just thinking about them makes my skin crawl. I have trouble getting to sleep sometimes because every time I lay down, I see a spider somewhere near or even on my bed and the adrenaline starts flowing, thus ruining my chances of actually aquireing any Z’s.

2) The second, and more likely reason has to do with my sleep cycle. Apparently the ideal awake sleep ratio is something like 16:8. That is 16 hours awake, then 8 alseep. My ideal sleep cycle is something more like 30:6. The problem with this is really that sociaty refuses to conform to my 36 hour day. They say something about sunlight, but I don’t believe sunlight actually exists anyway.

The point of all this is this: This is yet another night that I’m up ALL FREAKING NIGHT. I have to be at work tomorrow and I have the same dilemma I’m constantly facing. Do I sleep? Or do I just go into work? Well, if I go to sleep now, there’s a good chance I will not make it into work on time. If I go into work, there’s a good chance I’ll fall asleep while I’m there. Which is the lesser of two evils?

Any thoughts?

2 Responses to “The All-Nighter”

  1. kaseykfan says:

    I have been so flippin fried all week, just like a walking zombie, and I passed out after dinner tonight. Now it is 9:30 pm and I can’t fucking get back to sleep. I almost wish I never woke myself up to brush my teeth and take out my lenses, just for the sake of sweet slumber….damn it all!

    As for the creepy crawlies, they give me the jibblies too! I suggest buying some “bombs” from OSH and set them off throughout your house and that should fry the crap out of them! Hooray!

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