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Insomnia
Insomnia
Raul was a college student, he was never particularly a guy that needed much sleep to function on a daily basis, he used to sleep about 4 or 5 hours per day and that was okay with him , then exam’s period came upon him he haven’t done very well on the first grades of the semester, so he needed an excellent grade indeed, on the beginning of a heavy week of work under the pressure of having to do well and all the courses he began to lose those valuable hours of rest, is not that he didn’t tried to sleep, but when he putted his head on his soft pillow to finally rest for the day the preoccupations of having to do well didn’t let him crash into deep sleep, with resignation He decided to spend the first night of insomnia doing work from the school, having to breaks on that night, the first one to drink water and eat a delicious burger he had been saving for lunch, instead he thought having a good meal late at night and doing some work would ease him to fall asleep.
He had never been so wrong, the next day he went to college he was a ghost, his head was heavy, attitudes of people he didn’t even noticed before began no bother him for no apparent reason, it other words he was cranky and he had much to do still , going back home that night tired he thought finding sleep would be easier, again his thoughts would betrayed him late at night only this time, probably because the lack of sleep, he began to hear little voices outside his head, the thing was those voices were telling him things that were like his thoughts, so he decided to exercise late that night, he began to do pushups, sit ups, crunches, until he was on a bath of his own sweat, obviously the idea wasn’t great, it was November, the beginning of winter and his water boiler wasn’t functioning, so he had to shower on cold water, again he was awake late in night hearing little voices that telling him he had to do work, so he decided to work all the night and all the next day until he was done with everything.
On the last day of his insomnia he was trashed , dirty, irritated with his surrounding’s , he almost crashed on his way home, yelled to a partner at school, he wasn’t himself and the little voices had annoyed him all day, when he finally arrived home he planned to crashed on his bed to remain there for 3 hour’s thinking about all kinds of stuff, so he couldn’t sleep and then he discover the real source of his insomnia, it was the preoccupations of school or responsibilities , it was that he didn’t put his mind at ease so he concentrate, putted his mind on blank , and fell asleep like a baby.
