How to tell you’re not getting enough sleep.

September 21st, 2007 at 12:21 pm by sarah

Or how to tell when your brain has just about had it.

While taking notes on a reading, you notice that you’ve started leaving key letters out of words. “Coprehension” is not a word. Neither is “socity” or “urbaniation.” This continues for days.

You’ve lost your sunglasses somewhere, and can’t remember the last time you had them.

The alarm clock goes off in the morning and you can’t figure out where the noise is coming from or what it means. When your boyfriend rolls over to see why you haven’t hit snooze, you reach over and tap his forehead (as though snoozing him).

You stop at the store to pick up a few things, and when you come out you can’t find your car. You can’t remember in which row you’d parked it, and honestly aren’t sure you remember what it looks like.

10 pm means you’ve still got a couple of hours left to work.

You keep forgetting to look for your lost sunglasses until you’re in your car driving east, blinded by the bright morning sun.

Talking to yourself becomes automatic, to the point that you are now loudly commenting on things, and are minimally aware that you are doing it.

At work you call someone to see why they haven’t done x yet, and they inform you that it’s not until next week. You quietly realize that you’ve been thinking that it actually is next week.

You still can’t find your sunglasses after tearing the house apart, so you borrow a pair from your boyfriend. Halfway through the day you realize that you’ve now lost those too. (Thankfully you remember where, and when you go back they’re still there.)

In class you offer an example, and midway through explaining it you forget what the hell your point was.

While putting groceries away you become distracted by the dishes. While doing the dishes you become distracted by your laundry. Bringing it upstairs results in a complete closet reorganization. Later on you go back down to the kitchen and remember the groceries/dishes.

Note taking becomes harder, and the formation of simple words begins to require a concerted effort.

Overall clumsiness increases to the point where you are becoming accustomed to tripping over your own feet while walking. You realize you are now that lady; the crazy lady who stumbles and talks to herself.

After a restful night’s sleep, you glance at the table where you’ve looked for your sunglasses a million times, and they’re right there.

43 Responses to “How to tell you’re not getting enough sleep.”

  1. sam Says:

    I’m glad you found your sunglasses!

  2. rebaki Says:

    Did you ever find Mike’s sunglasses?

  3. sarah Says:

    Yes! The second I realized I’d left them in the ladies room I raced back there. (mumbling and shuffling like a crazy lady) They were right on the counter by the sinks, thank god. Mike would have beaten me raw with a bag of sweet valencia oranges had I lost them. :(

  4. mike Says:

    I got snoozed. (Where’s my oranges?)

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