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Sleep Deprivation Is A Cheap High

4/4/2013

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The Bitter Truth is I'm clean and sober since 1995.  And that is a very good thing.  But even decades later I can remember the last drink I had.  It was champagne at my first wedding, a direct reaction to being at an event that should have never taken place,   I don't miss being out of control, or the vomiting from too much booze.  And I never ever long for the head splitting hangovers that followed.  I'm glad I'm sober.  But I must admit I remember what feeling "Buzzed" was, and occasionally miss being comfortably numb.

Lately I haven't been sleeping that well.  Most nights, regardless of what time I go to sleep (sometimes 9pm.  Sometimes 11) I find myself waking up between 2 and 3 am.  The next 3 to 4 hours are spent tossing and turning till I finally force myself out of bed and on to the day at 6am.   The result of this interrupted sleep pattern is annoying, but if I look on the bright side, i
t does however leave me in a cloudy dreamy state similar to what I imagine people who smoke weed feel.  (I say imagine because my kids may read this.)

I find myself almost floating through the day with an eerie sense of calm.
  I stumble between dizzy and sleepy fir hours at work.  People seem to talk to me in slow motion. And I seem to grin a lot.  And for the most part this altered state doesn't seem to get in the way of me doing what I need to do.  When I need to do the hard tasks of the day like driving or taking care of the kids, I simply get some coke.  A Cola.  That seems to ramp up my senses and allow me to motor through till bedtime. 

Until my sleep paterns resets itself (yeah, I know, drinking Coke may be the problem) I'm going to enjoy the ride because lLack of sleep is a cheap and mostly safe high and It is the closest I ever want to get to being stoned and that's The Bitter Truth.

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