Diary of an Insomniac

I have suffered from insomnia for most of my life. I am extremely jealous of people who can sleep. I have no idea what it is like to fall asleep shortly after going to bed and not waking up until morning. It sounds wonderful though.

Getting married and now having a sleeping a companion has been wonderful for me but probably not wonderful at all for Neil. Because I am awake for most of the night, it gets boring, very boring. So I talk to Neil. He talks back. Sometimes he is awake, sometimes he is not. I have always been fascinated by dreams. So Neil has become my test subject. Throughout the night I ask him what he is dreaming about. I get all sorts of responses like school, math, computers and sometimes he even dreams about me. The other night I asked him what he was dreaming about. He responded, "You." I then asked, "What are you dreaming about me?" He responded, "I can't find you." I said, "I'm right here." Then, he said, "Oh." I have to admit I really haven't found out anything interesting about dreams except that Neil dreams a lot about school. Poor guy. Maybe it is more like nightmares.

We have very interesting conversations as well. I blame it on the sleep deprivation. We live near a stream that has lots of frogs. Neil has told me before that he has heard them croaking. I didn't believe him. But one night, I heard one. So of course I yell, "I heard one! Did you hear that!?" Neil replies "No." Then I start asking him a million questions about frogs. Which he answers in his sleep. Then I get concerned that the frog will freeze to death because it is cold outside. I think Neil's sleepy self had enough of me so he told me to go outside and find it. I told him I would, if he would come with me. Needless to say, he stopped talking to me.

I feel terrible, I probably ought to let Neil sleep in peace but it is just too tempting to fight off the boredom by talking. I've tried it all trust me. I even counted cows (I figured that made more sense than sheep because cows live in our backyard).

I do promise to try to not turn Neil into an insomniac too.