A new wave in ambient noises (oh, and sleeping or lack thereof)
I am a night person. I’m happy and alert and productive in the late hours of the day. When I get up in the mornings, I’m slow-moving, fuzzy-headed and grumpy and blah. I can manage to make coffee and get Ada ready and to school. Most people’s solution is to say “go to sleep earlier,” but I cannot. It doesn’t matter what time I go to bed, I lie there awake for hours before I can sleep. My earliest memories of this problem were from when I was 6 or 7 lying in my bed and staring out my window at the moon or counting the cars that passed on the highway*. The problem is that I still have to be up early, so I am always running on about 6 hours of sleep on a regular basis until my body gets so exhausted, it collapses. Today was one of those collapsing days. My head was groggy and my eyes tired and my brain not functioning. I was in bed by 7:30pm, and asleep by 9:00pm.
The problem is that I woke up around 1:30am because it sounded like we were in the middle of a hurricane and possibly someone was squeezing a kitten outside my window. I lied there, my groggy brain trying to process the fact that possibly I am wrong, and there really isn’t a person outside my window at 1:30am in the middle of a hurricane squeezing a kitten. After a couple of minutes of pushing through the fog in my brain, I looked at my alarm clock. When I went to bed, I bought Ada in with me so we could read together for awhile. During our reading time, I turned on my radio since both Ada and I like to listen to music. I must have not turned it off before I collapsed into sleep, and instead hit the ambient noise button because my alarm was playing noises of crashing waves and seagulls.
*We lived close to K-96.
