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This week’s Insomnia Story comes from The Observer.  The subject is a young girl named Elsa with major sleeping problems.  At only 13 she suffers from chronic insomnia.  Read the excerpt below and find the rest here:

“It’s 7.20am. I’m under the duvet, my eyes in some sort of trance between open and closed. I’m sort of suffocating, actually; there are only so many times you can recycle air while you have a duvet over your head. I know that the minute I pull it back I have given in. It will be my way of saying: ‘Fine. You win. I’ll get up. I’ll accept that I have had a maximum of… no sleep.’ I pull back the duvet. I use all my remaining will to push myself up on my feet. Where I’m going to find some more strength to get me through the day is a mystery.”

This week’s Insomnia Story comes from Jenny Lim of islandpacket.com.  Jenny took the Great American Sleep Challenge and discovered that she was in need of serious sleep help.  Check out the excerpt and read the rest here:

“My lack of sleep is frequently the result of my own choices, most of which revolve around my love of to-do lists, or more specifically, my love of checking stuff off my to-do list. I’ll stay up late for the bizarre joy of knowing I’ve finished all the laundry. I’ll get up early for the freakish satisfaction of thinking I didn’t waste over-ripe bananas because I was able to bake them into a loaf of freshly made banana bread. (Sometimes, I’ll write down tasks I’ve finished, just so I can check them off. Yes, I’m that girl.)”

This week’s insomnia story comes from Wendy Carlyle, and has something to do with colon cleansing…

“I was just about to get in the car and drive up to Walgreens and buy some sleep aid when it started raining, and I mean raining, so I decided to stay in the house. I don’t want to be walking around a drugstore at 2 in the morning anyway.

So I stayed in bed and watched TV until all hours. I didn’t mind the Letterman and Craig Ferguson shows, but after that, it all goes downhill. There was a cop show and then some science fiction show and then another cop show and then the infomercials started.

How in the world can someone find enough stuff to write about colon cleansing to take an entire 30 minutes? And how many people set their TV or make a point to wake up and watch a show at 3:30 in the morning to learn about the benefits of a Colon Cleanse treatment?”

Read the rest here.

This week’s insomnia story comes from Metro Media Complex. Complete with YouTube embeds for visual aids, this insomnia story is not one to be missed:

“It’s been an interesting three days of having to deal with insomnia…I have not been told my a doctor I have it, nor have I experienced this before.

Personally, I think that it has to do with the life changes and worry of financial well-being.

I thought the ear plugs have conquered the insomnia but this has been a rough two weeks now. Some days are good, some days are bad but Friday night I went to bed early. Little I knew that was going to screw my cycle up.

Since Friday night, I had this unusual dream/nightmare of “tetris”, yes the video game. But the imagery was houses and buildings falling down and having to connect them like the game of tetris. Each time I didn’t succeed, the game would restart. Then I would wake up and look at the clock. This kept repeating and repeating.”

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This week’s Insomnia Story comes from Laura Davis at the Liverpool Daily Post:

“‘WHY do undertakers have a preference for yellow cars?” I wonder during the early hours of the morning, after awakening from fitful sleep for the umpteenth time since I had gone to bed the night before.

The obvious reason would be that they are tired of wearing black and driving hearses but, on the other hand, police officers tend to go for blue cars, so maybe they quite like the colour of their uniforms.

Inane I know, but it was the best I could manage at that time in the morning, my limbs too exhausted to lift but my brain whizzing manically like a kid on Sunny D.

Pointless surveys aside, there is no shortage of absurd subjects to consider when it’s too late to get up again but there’s still ages before the central heating comes on.”

Read the rest here.