Solid sleep = good even if I do get sleepy in the afternoon

(picture copyright to whoever produced it)

Sleep. The final frontier. Truly. Stuff space (I get motion sick in other modes of transport, so unless the machines which disintegrate and reintegrate particles get invented, I will not be going to space ever). Sleep is so essential. There are many reasons why people can't sleep or have disrupted sleep. Children. Stress. Muse (that can occasionally be a downside to being a writer when Muse is active just as you're trying to get to sleep). Pain. Watching scary movies. Playing video games before bed.

I've been having restless sleep for months now. I've been able to increase a night medication, which means I sleep through for 5-6 hours straight. It feels so awesome! Although by 4pm my 4am start is really getting to me. That's why if I'm out and about or need my brain working I have a cup of coffee in the morning, and occasionally a cup of tea in the afternoon. Caffeine is wonderful! Edited to add I don't nap in the afternoon otherwise I don't sleep at night. The only exception is when I'm ill - sometimes sleeping is all I can do!

(taken from Google Images Search, but I know this is Akari from the anime Aria!)

Tonight I'm planning on watching some Airbender and definitely at least 2 episodes of Aria. I'm in the third season, and I'll need tissues because the next episode is the one where Alice is the first undine ever to go straight from pair to prima! (pair = novice, who then graduate to single, who then become prima). She doesn't have a clue where she's going, and it's just so amazing. I cry a lot in this series because it's very moving as the girls achieve their dreams.

Keep striving - one day we'll all get to our dreams!

Nothing beats a good night's sleep.

Really. Sleep is essential to life. I've slept badly for months. I've been able to adjust one of my medication, and it means I get sleep! 

I'm guessing most of you were asleep at 4am this morning, but that's when I woke up, refreshed, thinking 'Yay! Sleeep!' 5 hours solid sleep felt incredible. By 4pm I was yawning away, but it was nice to feel a bit more human., and thinking less of 'I need to sleep'. 

I'm hoping on the final increase tomorrow night I might get 30 more mins sleep. If I can get to 6 hours solid sleep - I'll be very happy. 

So this morning I did some reading, some tapestry work, then some more reading. I was a few chapters in a 400 pages + book (ninja vampires)

when I realised that I wanted to edit, not read. I knew I couldn't over do it it as I had to clean my birds before lunch (a time limit I set on myself). So I spent best part of 4 hours picking out items I'd used in my wip, which scenes they were in, writing them down on the scene cards & on the worksheets. I finished chapter 7! Huge whoohoo moment. (Finishing a lesson is a big achievement at the moment). 

I then carried on reading the vampire ninja book (Hero is a bit of a nincompoop in places, but heroine is very cool). Scheduled a review, remembered another review & comp was due up this weekend, had dinner, and now I'm relaxing. Feeling like a cosy cat so I'm going to read tonight rather than watch anime. 

Hope everyone gets some sleep tonight! Having a sleep routine helps in some ways, depending what your sleeping issues actually are.