Monday, July 02, 2007

Sleeping Disorder? Part II

Humans can't do without sleep, even for me. earlier i went for my practice theory lesson. supposed to attend 4 sessions but my conscious self was only there for 3 sessions. due to my lack of sleep i walked into the room like a zombie, went straight to the computer and started doing all the questions. the first two sessions was alright, by the third session i was drifting in and out of consciousness. the fourth session i was already in a place far, far away for a solid 1 hour. it was so relaxing until the instructor had to wake me up. haha. this brings back memories. all my life sleeping has been an issue for me. thus i gain the ability to sleep anywhere anytime. i've tons of experience to share, all involving sleep. primary school was the start of it all. i always sleep on any bus on the way back, always miss my stop and ended up at the bus terminal but luckily the terminal was near to my house. usually someone will wake me up. ah how kind strangers ah. my sleeping habits became worse in secondary school. lets see now, sometimes i miss the stop going to school if i'm lucky it'll be just a few stops if not then i'll try to sneak in but that always fails. come to think of it my detentions were mostly due to coming to school late. on the way back home its basically the same thing, miss my stop and ended up at the terminal but since its a different bus so its a different terminal. lets just say that i live in the far west but i wake up in the far east and no, i'm not talking about the shopping centre. i remember the first time i alight the bus made my first step and saying "where the fuck am i?" to the bus driver. so i waited for the next bus, went back and not surprisingly miss my stop again but this time around by 1 stop. somehow it doesn't matter to me if there's seats available or not. sometimes i can sleep while standing up but i try not to do it so often cos its embarrassing when i fall and every one's attention is on me. the trick to this is to maintain a semi-conscious state while standing up but i always end up getting knock-out. in class i wouldn't want to talk so much about it cos it was a routine thing for me. you could say 70% of my attendance is sleeping. the only class i dreaded was my 2nd language class. i think the teacher is those "old school" type of teacher where discipline is a major issue. of course i was always made to stand inside the class, outside the class, on the chair. if he's in a good mood he'll just ask me to stay awake. one time i was so sleepy that i bang on the table with a face plant. school days is so much fun. in poly its a sleeping kingdom, that's all i want to say. the experiences outside are the interesting ones. like taking an mrt at one station and in a blink of an eye i'm teleported to the other side of the same station. well in reality the "blink of an eye" took about 2 hours and i didn’t really teleport, the train just made a loop of singapore but i wasn’t aware of that until i realise the train was going the wrong way. National service was a sleeping nightmare for me especially during their boring lectures. i don’t know why but i’m always the one getting caught. i’ve caused my whole company to do extra punishments so frequently that every lecture became “make idham stay awake session” hahaha!! of course that’s not 100% guaranteed. most of the time i spent lectures standing up by the stairs only to doze off and falling down the stairs, that really hurts. but sleeping anywhere was the real experience here. so far i’ve slept at graveyard in wee hours of the night, in a drain, in a canal, beside a cliff, i’ve even slept during heavy rains without shelter. when i got to my new unit it was a totally new kind of nightmare, the kind where i don’t wanna sleep anymore. the reason is simply because i slept too much. that’s how my clubbing got started actually.

my sleeping habits has no fixed timings to it. i just sleep when my body tells me to sleep. whenever there’s exams i usually leave it to the night before to cramp it up. that’s how i do exams. planning to start off reading the important notes i’ve highlighted but ended up reading the entire book. try imagine cramping a whole year of study into 1 night. but i’ve always manage to score good grades so that’s fine for me. i could have scored better grades if i hadn’t leave it to the last minute but that’s not my style. usually i forget everything after an hour after the papers, not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. anyway i’ve been thinking of working in the night shift since i’m much more active in the night. its not a bad idea really.

i’m finally getting sleepy so i better try to sleep now before the feeling is gone.