I love my bed but I go through phases where I don't sleep very often. This month has seen one of those phases. I don't have insomnia, I'm actually blessed with the ability to sleep where ever & whenever I desire, I just don't sleep if I don't want to sleep.
For instance: If sleep is less important than completing a task then I wont do it - at least until I remind myself that I need sleep to ensure that the task that I'm doing is done to the best of its ability, but I very rarely allow myself to get to that point any more.
I remember several episodes when I was younger, however, where I would become physically sick from exhaustion. I don't fully understand the why but I do remember the feeling: I would suddenly upchuck the entire contents of my stomach, my body would ache, my head would spin & I would crash out somewhere in a daze until I had enough restless sleep to allow myself to get back up & start the new day. I'd generally have to go to bed earlier than normal the following evening but other than that life was normal. I affectionately call those episodes "rebooting".
Now I'm more likely to become a bit (for want of a better word) anti-social when I don't sleep. I try not to let that happen too often but it is an inevitability because I often make a conscious decision not to switch off my brain until I have a sense of accomplishment. This has made me a big fan of power-naps.
Power-naps aren't always possible though, most notably when there are other people relying on you to be awake & at your best. So at the moment I am re-creating my sleep pattern to accommodate a healthy balance of work/family/life/study & as part of that I have taken up writing again.
Rather than write something that I would feel the need to research I decided it would make most sense to write about myself. That way I am "killing two birds with one stone": I'm giving myself that sense of achievement on a day where I may otherwise not have it but I am also allowing myself to to a "brain dump" & we all know how important that is...