Sweet slumber
Sleep is wonderful. Sleep heals. When one feels intense pain as when one is being tortured, sleep often comes to the rescue and all feeliings and sensations cease. When a man dies and all his senses start to leave his body, sleep stays in the body and is the last to leave. That is what the wise man said and I think he may be right. When one is tortured by doubt and pain, one seeks the embrace of oblivion, taking refuge in alcohol or sleeping pills with certain disastrous results. Escaping one form of suffering only drives one to another which could be far worse than the first.
Sleep is one of Nature's many wonderful inventions and often taken for granted. I used to be bothered by a deadly sleeping disorder which is characterized by immobility and is known to lead to death by pancreatitis. I would be dreaming and conscsious of it as a dream and I would be unable to move. This type of disorder is quite common in the Philippines and is called urom in Visayan; many deaths have been attributed to this. One would be seemingly frozen and in a state of total immobility while fully conscious and even seing people as they come in the room. Being prone to this disorder, I was taught to wiggle my toes and fingers when it starts to happen and keep doing it until I regained control of my hands and legs. This itype of disorder often strikes the rice-eating people of Asia especially when one goes to sleep immediately after eating.. A solution has been offered which is to drink plenty of water before sleeping; then one might possibly escape from this malady.
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Sleep is one of Nature's many wonderful inventions and often taken for granted. I used to be bothered by a deadly sleeping disorder which is characterized by immobility and is known to lead to death by pancreatitis. I would be dreaming and conscsious of it as a dream and I would be unable to move. This type of disorder is quite common in the Philippines and is called urom in Visayan; many deaths have been attributed to this. One would be seemingly frozen and in a state of total immobility while fully conscious and even seing people as they come in the room. Being prone to this disorder, I was taught to wiggle my toes and fingers when it starts to happen and keep doing it until I regained control of my hands and legs. This itype of disorder often strikes the rice-eating people of Asia especially when one goes to sleep immediately after eating.. A solution has been offered which is to drink plenty of water before sleeping; then one might possibly escape from this malady.
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posted by underdog @ 3:59 AM
2 Comments:
At 10:50 PM,
tattytiara said…
Okay, now my life long battle with insomnia doesn't seem so bad, but because of it those romancing words about sleep certainly hit home for me!
At 6:33 PM,
underdog said…
insomia was my constant companion for a long time and I suspect many people carry on an affair with her too. One trick I learned to protect me from her seductive allure was to keep my eyes half-closed while lying on my bed. It never failed to repel her advances.:)
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