Friday, 27 September 2013

Pseudo insomnia

(Written around midnight. Went to sleep and forgot to post it.)

My brain has turned to mush. Well, what did I expect? I've been awake for 40 hours and counting, and all I've eaten today is one cupcake. Yeah, you get bruised when you hit yourself in the face... figuratively speaking. Still overly sensitive. I can listen to basically any song that I like and feel the shivers down my back, as if I heard it again for the first time. But the music just can't seem to get loud enough. I’ve maxed the volume on all devices and it's still not enough. The day before yesterday I could barely listen to the same music on a quarter of the max volume. I've deafened in two days, so it seems. Nah, it's just my mushy brain having a hard time interpreting... well, everything.

Listening to Marillion's beautiful song “Jigsaw” and getting lost in the clear, high tones of... (can it be a keyboard?) caressing my ear. I'm listening to sounds with my head phones in mono, and it's so much better that stereo. I notice tiny little extra melodies and instruments I didn't notice before, in the same old songs. Like a little rainbow sprinkle. Okay, I'm too damn tired now... Fuck, I just wanna go to sleep. I'm going off to the district health care centre tomorrow forenoon to get my testosterone shot. I won't be alive to get my ass over there without sleep tonight. Goddamn you brain, I hate you so, so much! Ugh, maybe dying would feel a little less painful... well, that obviously depends on how you're dying. And I only know two ways. Well, that came out wrong, since I haven't actually died. But I could have, and those were OD: felt nothing at all, I fell asleep and it all went black. Strangulation: now that bloody fucking hurt, but I don't what to compare it too. Strong convulsions with severe breathing difficulties, it's a one of a kind, that pain. I guess what I’m feeling right now is somewhere in between those two. Which basically says absolutely nothing cause those are my absolute polar extremes regarding pain. Everything I feel and ever have felt would be between those two.

Sigh... doesn't matter. A little insomnia never killed anyone. Why am I still getting back to “Fight Club” all the time? That movie sort of sums up today, tonight and yesterday pretty damn well. Except that I’m not trying to kill my split personality something persona, who normally goes by the name Anna. I haven't tried to kill her in a while actually, not since 2011 when she really pissed me off. Well, getting rid of her and still be able to survive myself, would probably be something like doing brain surgery on myself and expect to recover from that without brain damage. Which by the way I have no intention of doing, in case you were wondering. I haven't been without sleep for quite that long for something like that to happen.

But my brain is a little off tonight, and for some reason I started thinking about something I came across while surfing the web. That is people who have lobotomised themselves. Well I’m just astounded about how they succeeded to do that! I mean: painful, tricky and messy to say the least. I do however understand that a person today must have quite some horrible life in order to even consider such an option. Well, I’m still mostly morbidly fascinated by how they do it and what become of them after, and care less about their feelings. These days I’m more illogically practical, sensitively cynical, passionately despondent and other fine contradictions you won't find in a dictionary. Rather than creatively hopeless, empathetically emotionally detached and greedlessly selfish. This is fun, making up totally suitable new word combinations! Another sign of schizophrenia, but hey who cares. I’ve been making up words since I was four and I have no intention of stop doing so. We can call it poetic.

Now I’m not very sensitive anymore, obviously. More of a dulled, lacking a few brain cells and poetically crazy state of mind right now. It's like my thoughts are cut off at the end and the beginning, I only get the middle part of them. Which really isn't that easy to make anything tangible out of. It's just nonsense. Keep reading the same words over and over but only half the letters disappear. Like someone put cotton inside my head and then squeezed my head together again just a little bit too tight. I’m babbling again, what the hell. I once saw this video of a bloke who stayed awake for 11 days. He said that it was only hard the first three or so days. He still hadn't slept when the video was filmed, and I could tell he was disoriented and incoherent, kind of like I am now, so my guess is that he was probably lying. About it getting easier after three days, I mean. I think that is the world record of sleep deprivation even, at least among the recorded nutcases who have too much free-time and crave fame or something. Cause I’m bloody certain there are and have been a lot of people who've been awake for much longer time periods than that. Just that they don't/didn't have a choice. Now I do know that in most cases of real insomnia (not the pseudo kind I get once in a while) the person do get a little sleep every once in a while, like an hour or two a day/night. They dose off a little whenever cause they're so tired, but can't really fall asleep and stay sleeping, not for long at least. So I believe it is rare to have a complete absence of sleep during a longer period of insomnia, but I’m just saying there's gotta be a few of those cases too.

If I survive this awfully long and painful night, get my shot of testo tomorrow and still am alive after that, I might do some research on the subject, but until then I just wanna focus on something a little less depressing. Chances are I won’t remember it by then though. Memory loss is also quite common after a couple of days without sleep. Well, I have this blog entry as a reminder at least, if I ever stop writing so I can post this. I can't even close my eyes for more than two seconds, and I can't even keep them open for more than two seconds... I’m neither awake or asleep, or I’m both. No, neither.

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