Can't Sleep Clowns Will Eat Me..

Well I had one of those nights where you just can't shut your brain off last night. I don't get major insomnia that often but it hit me with a vengeance last night. Sat in bed just thinking of ridiculous things for hours. I'd try and clear my mind and next thing you know I'm thinking about the plot from last week's Entourage or some crap like that. Then I'm thinking of elaborate pranks I would like to pull on people. It was absolutely bizarre. I didn't want to be thinking of these incoherent things I was trying to get a good nights sleep.

I eventually just got up and went to sit at my computer for about half an hour. I'm such a geek that I was googling ways to help yourself sleep. I even tried the Dream Machine in your web browser but that had no effect on me. I then sat reading about the difference between Alpha, Delta and Theta waves and the relaxation effects of them. Eventually I wandered over to some site selling sleep enhancing ambient music with all the various waves. It was like $2 for a CDs worth of music so I picked one (appropriately named Insomnia I believe) and payed the piper. I was desperate. So I cranked on the "music" which was pretty much just several notes played over and over and eventually drifted off to slumberland not an hour or three too late.

The only explanation that I can come up with is something I realized today. I screwed up at work yesterday and didn't really realize it till today. While working on a computer I accidentally forgot to grab some files that were supposed to be backed up and then proceeded to re-image the machine. Thus I had killed any reasonable chance to retrieve these files. I didn't consciously realize this until this morning when I went to return the machine. Makes you wonder if there is some part of your brain that keeps a total log of a day's events and this was the freaky bouncing apple update telling me that I had forgotten to do something important. All I'm hoping is that next time the signs are a bit clearer cause god knows I need my beauty sleep. After all I'll take all the help I can get with that.