I
am aging. I'm not yet falling apart, but the flaws in my construction are
becoming more and more pronounced. Most
recently, I am in an ongoing battle with sleep. I fall asleep after reading
only a few pages of my book, but then I wake up a few hours later. I stay awake
for at least two hours (which often extends to three or four.) This, of course,
means that once I finally manage to fall back asleep, I am in no way ready to
wake up when I'm "supposed to."
I'm
not (completely) ignorant of factors contributing to this chronic restlessness.
Diet, caffeine intake, exercise: these are all areas in which I need to make
drastic improvements. But if I'm being meticulous in my examination of
potential factors, I must include environment.
Am
I at that point where I consider having my own bedroom? Looked at logically, it
simply doesn't make sense to assume that two people will continue to have the exact
same sleep cycles and routines as one another, or even retain complementary habits, for decades.
Every
time I wake up and leave the room, I feel like I'm waking up my wife. And I
don't want to wake her up again by coming back to bed hours later, so I end up
sleeping on the couch or spare bed anyway.
Add
in blanket preference, room temperature, music, lights out time, and--let's
face it: snoring, it makes complete sense that Grammie and Poppa had separate
bedrooms. Maybe if I bit the bullet and did that, I wouldn't have insomnia to
the degree that I've experienced for quite some time.
One
of the more dangerous aspects of this sleeplessness is that the products in some
of these late-night commercials are starting to sound pretty good...
