It's happening again. Once again I find myself plagued with sleep maintenance insomnia. I can fall asleep no problem, only to wake up three hours later and remain awake despite my best efforts to resume sleeping.
I'm beginning to feel like some character from an H.P. Lovecraft story, some haunted individual recounting the dreadful things they saw, trying to explain why they now jump at shadows and require strong painkillers just to sleep. Admittedly, I'm sticking with Schedule V antihistamines, not Schedule III/II painkillers.
It's at times like these that I truly find myself appreciating a good night's sleep. A single rotten night of sleep can throw me off my game, yes, but that's about all it will do. Maybe an extra can of soda (a little more caffeine to power through the day) and going to bed an hour or so earlier than normal, and I'll be back on track the following morning. A week (or, at least, most of a week) of bad sleep? That is another matter entirely.
Something that has occurred to me recently is that there is no particular term for that nebulous period when last night becomes this morning. That is understandable I suppose, as most people will be asleep at the time, so they have no need for such a term. This is simply something I find myself pondering at 2:48 AM. I'm sure someone somewhere has thought up such a term (or if no one has yet, they will; these things do tend to sort themselves out).
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