Up until last year, I was always someone who didn’t find sleeping any sort of problem. Except from the times when I was ill, I would always fall asleep really easily.
Sadly my: head on pillow – “goodnight” – 5,4,3,2,1 asleep; routine has disappeared!
I used to almost always fall asleep before Andy, but recently we’ve swapped, and I often find myself falling asleep to his breathing/snoring. Poor Andy it means he’s more likely to get poked or shoved, in the effort to get him to turn onto his side so that he snores less! He never used to get this abuse when I fell asleep first, because once I’m asleep I’m a heavy sleeper.
I’ve learnt from doing sleep-ins at work, that I have a ability to sleep heavily, but still be able to wake up to the sounds I’m tuned into. At work this was sounds of them getting up to go toilet or having a seizure. Granted the seizure sound for one chap was hard to miss as it was quite loud. The poor chap sounded like a deep voiced version of seeing something scary, and looked like it too. But if he went to the loo I needed to wake to check he got back to bed safely.
I used to do some stupid, probably illegal shifts at work. I used to have to wake up & physically get up & check on the above chap twice during the night, and I’d work 5-10 ’sleep-in’ 8-10, if not longer! I’d only get measly sleep-in rate, even though I GOT up twice!
My boss was a work-aholic, and it’s much harder to say something to someone whose life is their work, because you know if you couldn’t do a shift she would probably do it herself. She rarely went home or had a holiday! She’s a very poorly lady now, fighting cancer. To see her, she looks the same, but apparently the cancer is too advanced to defeat. She’ll battle on until her body gives up!
This post has digressed! What was I saying… Sleep. Yeah, I’m getting old, I now need to go to bed earlier & give my brain time to switch off.