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117. The sleep

In the two previous texts February 19, and 20; I wrote about how I from January 30, have had an experience of that I hadn’t been sleeping, every time I woke up. Yesterday, I also had that experience, when I woke up. But today everything has been normal. I have been sleeping. I have woke up. And I haven’t experienced or thought about that I haven’t been sleeping. Therefore I think; that this strange experience, of that I don’t sleep anymore, now has disappeared. Then this strange experience has lasted for three weeks and one day.

Today I have thought about, that when I had problems, because I didn’t sleep at the end of the seventies, I read two books because of that. One book about sleep. “Sleep, written by Gay Gaer Luce and Julius Segal. Published by Heinemann ‐ London. First published in Great Britain in 1967.” I had a Norwegian copy. And another Norwegian book about nerve medicine. “Nerver og nervepiller, om moderne psykofarmaka og hva de kan utrette, Odd Lingjærde, Aschehoug, 1974.” (Nerves and nerve pills, about modern psychoactive drugs and what they can achieve, by Odd Lingjærde, Aschehoug publishing firm, 1974.) My real problem was that I didn’t sleep because of rheumatism. But I only thought about that I didn’t get enough sleep, and I read these two books because I wanted to understand more about my sleep problem.

I have written about the book “Sleep” in a text May 20, 2004. It is under the upper links “Miscellaneous”, “Introduction”, “Texts 1”, “2003 ‐ 2004”, “Memory”.

Now I think about that I have been influenced to get rheumatism and a sleep problem, because I used too little clothing on my legs during the winter. And that I also was influenced to read these two books, or such books.

In relation to this, I now think that I in the end; maybe have been influenced to experience that I don’t sleep anymore. And because I have read these two books, I shall start to think, that I know much about how harmful it is not to sleep. And then, I shall start to go to a doctor, and begin with more and more psychoactive drugs.

When I started to detect this strange experience of that I don’t sleep, I did exactly what I have written about earlier. That it is important to relax, when such influences become difficult. I relaxed, and thought that it is the best I can do. I didn’t think so much about it. I thought that I had to find out about it in the next days. And after some time, I started to understand what it was. I had been sleeping, but every time I woke up, I experienced that I had been awake all the time.

February 22, 2017, David H. Hegg