Our hostess for the MLMM Tale Weaver is Stephanie Colpron and this week she says
Sleep… a precious commodity. Or something that’s just needed to function? Tell me a tale of sleep please. A beauty sleep? A person stuck not being able to sleep… Or on the other hand, a Sleeping Beauty kind of curse?
Tell me a story where sleep occupies a central position, by its presence or absence. Or maybe your relation to sleep why not?
I had the perfect reblog for this with She Sleeps but on checking it out, I’ve already reblogged it.
So Plan B was to reblog its sequel She Awakens but I’ve reblogged that as well!
I think both are worth a read if you want a twist on a fairytale.
So what to do for this week’s Tale Weaver? I’ve written poetry on the subject of sleep, and the problems of not getting any………. or very little.
In fact, I’ve written something on practically all of Stephanie’s suggestions!
Currently, I am not sleeping well. There is a lot going on in my head, and although I am exhausted sometimes, I’m finding it hard to settle at night. Even if I do drop off relatively easily, I am awake in a couple of hours either being too hot or uncomfortable. It is rare I am too cold thanks to the menopause in a box from my post cancer meds. Hubby on the other hand is nearly always cold, so it works out very well as he has extra blankets on his side and I radiate heat all night like a never cooling hot water bottle!
I’ve been a light sleeper for years, so if Hubby stirs, I’m awake. However, I know that I can sleep at my deepest between 6am and 8am, and those two hours are worth about five….. if I get them.
My dreams are varied, confusing, and sometimes amusing, rearranging furniture I haven’t got, returning to a school I left in 1972, forgetting where I parked the car, past relationships and the occasional nightmare which finds its way in verse here on my blog to get it out of my system.
I’ll finish with a link to What’s Your Preference in Bed (which I’ve also reblogged actually) and let the scientists have a turn!
As an aside for this one, it didn’t make a lot of difference. Here, Hubby is sleeping on the right nearest the door, and I am on the left nearest the window……… and I’m still pretty crabby in the mornings!
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I can understand how not getting enough sleep just makes us irritable through the day and exhausted too.
I’m usually crabby n the mornings anyway!
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I sleep in the middle of my bedroom. I don’t think it makes a difference where you sleep, like you, I am a very light sleeper, I wake at every little sound. Xx
The older I get the less sleep I get – I fall asleep easily and stay asleep but I rarely sleep past 7:30AM…
Hubby can fall asleep on the settee at the drop of a hat. I find if I have an early night I can’t settle, but am OK after about 11pm provided I can get to sleep in the first place. I’m usually awake about 5.30 but if I can get back to sleep, will sleep until around 7.30 to 8.