![]() “I’m here to see ,” I told her, “because I wrecked my neck when I engaged in the extreme sport known as ‘sleeping’.” ![]() I put myself together as best as I could, and dragged my exhausted, miserable, wrecked-neck self to see her.Īnne does Pilates in the same building, and when I got there, I saw her instructor, who looked at me like, “Why are you here? You don’t do Pilates and even when you did, you were never here in the morning because you suck at mornings.” Around 8, she said she could see me at 930. What the fuck, Wil’s Body?!Īround 630, I texted my chiropractor, and asked her if she had any appointments to help me. I reacted to this in a mature and adult way: I got really, really mad about it. I could hardly hold my head up, and turning it to either side wasn’t going to happen. It was a rough night, and by the time I gave up and got out of bed at 5am, I had only managed to struggle through about two hours of fitful sleep.Īnd because that wasn’t annoying enough, during the brief time I was asleep, something happened in my neck, and when I got out of bed, I was in excruciating pain. It came out of nowhere, and it was like HEY MAN I AM HERE AND I AM GONNA MAKE THE MOST OF IT! YEAAAHHH!! This is in sharp contrast to when I quit alcohol, which featured about two weeks of really tough days and nights (that I am so proud of myself for getting through! Coming up on four years! Go me!)īut a couple days ago, on the same day I had my time collapse thing, the insomnia came back as hard and as relentless as ever. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I did not experience a single physical or emotional withdrawal symptom. I wondered if I was developing a tolerance, or if, with my history of alcohol dependence, I was engaging in risky behaviour, so earlier this week, I decided to take a break and see what my physical and emotional response was. It’s been such a life-changing experience for me, I’ve struggled to avoid becoming an obnoxious evangelist about it. I still stay awake until after midnight, but rarely am I awake past 2am, and I almost always stay asleep for a full 8 hours. It’s 3:1 CBD:THC, and it’s been a h*cking miracle. Well, about two years ago, I started using a cannabis tincture before bed. It’s frustrating and has been demoralizing for pretty much my entire life. If I get into bed at what I think of as the time normal people go to bed, like between 9 and 11, say, I will stare at the ceiling, toss and turn, and get frustrated until sometime after midnight, when my brain finally gets on board and lets me fall into my version of what passes for restful sleep. ![]() I have *always* been like this, and no amount of exercise, natural or prescription drugs, meditations or pacts with the devil have been able to change it. It’s not uncommon for me to wake up four or five times a night.īecause that doesn’t make existing in the world difficult enough, my natural Circadian rhythm wants to stay awake until 2 or 3 in the morning, and it doesn’t want to get out of bed until 10 or 11. It is very hard for me to fall asleep, and I struggle to stay asleep. Heracles successfully managed to get the apples from the garden and bring them back to Eurystheus.Following the footsteps of a ragdoll danceįor as long as I can remember, I have had insomnia to some extent. One of them was to steal the apples from the Garden of Hesperides. Eurystheus, not counting the slaying of the Lernaean Hydra nor the cleaning of the Augean stables, gave two extra tasks to Heracles. The Hesperides and their Garden were also one of the tasks that were given during the Labours of Heracles. The apple was then given by Paris, prince of Troy, to Aphrodite, who promised to give him Helen as his wife, thus triggering the events of the Trojan War. Not trusting the Hesperides to guard the apple trees on their own, Hera also placed a hundred headed dragon named Ladon that never slept.Ī golden apple that was taken from the Garden of the Hesperides was what eventually caused the Trojan War Eris, goddess of strife, managed to steal an apple from the garden, inscribed the words "To the fairest" and threw it amidst the goddesses that attended at a wedding she was not invited to. The golden apples were believed to give immortality to anyone who consumed them. The so called Garden of the Hesperides belonged to the goddess Hera, in which there was a grove of apple trees that bore golden apples. They were responsible of taking care of a garden in the western end of the world, near the Atlas mountains in Africa. It was usually thought that there were three Hesperides, although some sources name four or seven. Different sources name different parents for the Hesperides they may have been daughters of the Titans Atlas and Hesperis Erebus and Nyx Nyx alone Phorcys and Ceto or of Hesperus. The Hesperides in Greek mythology were the nymphs of the sunset.
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