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This is the 5th sleepless night I've experienced this week.
I can feel the back of my head pounding, feeling like someone is walking around on my brain. This happens quite often and it hurts like my brain is getting pulverized in a meat grinder.
I have tried everything I could to fix the issue.
I've gone to licensed doctors for sleep medication, I tried drinking warm milk. I tried listening to calming music before bed. Heck, I even tried counting sheep. None of it worked. I can never sleep, I'm always so tired that I can barely function properly.
As I'm typing this, I catch a glimpse of my blood-shoot eyes on my phone's screen. I am almost horrified at what I see and then, I remember that I'm just sleep-deprived. I look and feel like the walking dead, almost like someone's ghostly arms are holding tightly onto my precious live body, trying to take me with them to the deadly pit of the underworld. I feel so weighed down.
Even during the day, I only manage to sleep for one measly hour. What's wrong with me?
Please, I just want to sleep. Whoever you are...let go of me. I beg you! I thought to myself.
As I finish saying this out loud and typed it, I shut off my phone and walk towards my Queen sized mattress and I jumped in, feeling the softness of it encase me like a warm marshmallow. I sighed as I continued to sink into its softness, wishing it would take me under and finally, give me enough peace to sleep.
After a while, I didn't feel the invisible pressure that normally claimed me in its grasp, this past week, and I felt like a huge weigh was lifted off of me. That night I finally got to sleep through the night, without any dreams or nightmares.
It was blissful.
