The very first day I discovered that some people do take pills in order to sleep, I counted myself as blessed because I have never experienced sleeping issues. I was the type that over sleeps alot, but that was during my teenage years, and just before I got admitted to the university, left for me, just allow me to sleep until I get satisfied. Imagine going to bed by 9 p.m. and waking up by 9 a.m. This was how much I loved and cherished sleep until grandma began to tell me the importance of placing limits on things.
In her words, she said that sleep is good but can also be a thief. She told me reasons why I should work hard and not allow so much sleep to deprive me of success. She said a lot that faithful morning, and I began to work on my sleeping habits. I imagined how I would cope if I entered the university when Grandma wouldn't be there to wake me up from sleep. I began to face reality and adjusted so much, still observing quality sleep for good health but not oversleeping.
Nowadays, responsibilities have naturally started depriving me of quality sleep. I now struggle to get enough sleep due to my workload here and there trying to meet my daily goals. Change is indeed a constant. However, good sleep is a healthy lifestyle that everyone should strive to observe by all means, as it affects the general body positively.
Talking about my dreams, I wish I could control the way I dream to some extent, but unfortunately, dreams come to us naturally and no one can control them. I doubt if there's a night I will sleep without dreaming of different things, and most of them are mainly what happened during the day, or my imaginations, and also the effect of a movie I watched. This is one of the reasons I reduced the way I watch movies to almost zero.
I discovered that once I close my eyes to sleep, all my dreams will revolve around what happened in the movie, and sometimes I see myself eating the same meal I saw the actors eat, or if it's in an action movie, I will see someone trying to shoot me with a gun just like it happened in the movie. I don't really know if this is a problem or just normal, but sincerely, I am not just so comfortable with some of my dreams. Then sometimes, I sleep and enter into a very long dream, so sensitive about my life, which seems important, but once I open my eyes, remembering those dreams becomes an issue. If at all I remember it, it's just partial, unlike the irrelevant dreams that I can always recall all that transpired in my dream world. I remember creating a beautiful future for myself in my dream, relocating to another country, and doing great for myself, only to wake up and still find myself in bed. I have had all manner of weird dreams in this life; even after a little nap in the afternoon, I am already dreaming. Is this normal?
One other thing I experience occasionally is imagination, and unlike my dreams, most of which don't happen in reality, this one does. It's weird how I can imagine a particular thing, and within a few hours, I see it coming to pass. Most times I feel scared, and sometimes I feel it is a gift that I am yet to uncover.
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