To follow the "how do you know?" series I was not aware
I started here (that time it was 'how do you know you're losing
your mind') - I'm now trying to understand how do you know you are too tired to
function.
I knew I was in that case on day when I
was taking a nap in my dorm room at the University (how wonderful we had time
to do that back then!). When I woke up I remember that while I was sleeping,
someone dropped by, I had gotten up, opened the door, talked to her, then went
back to sleep. It was awesome that I remembered that part, ‘cause I had no
freaking idea what we had talked about. At least I remembered who the person
was and went to tell her I had been basically sleep-walking when talking to
her.
Then again, during my University years, I
had joined a summer course with a student association and
the organizers were actually killing us. It was a two weeks course, with real
classes at the University in the morning (starting from 9, so wakeup call was
at 7!) & in the afternoon, and then... the fun began. All evening and night
it was party time. You know the 'work hard, party hard' thing? They lived by it.
You had no chance in h@$% to go to sleep before 3 or 4 am (and they cleaned
after that! I don't know how they did it). After one week in this rhythm I
remember I did not know what language I spoke (we were students from all over
Europe, so it was supposed to be English), I did not remember much of what I
was studying and probably I made no sense at all. I know that at the end of the
two weeks, during the exam - yeah, we had one of those - I just finished it as
fast as I could so that I could get some sleep right there in the classroom.
Those were the days!
Back to current times... why did I bring
this on? Of course, I have two active sons and blah blah, I am so tired... but it's actually not that. It's stupid, really. For no specific reason, a couple of days ago I realized I have reached the bottom again: after
waking up (if we can call it that), I went to get my toothbrush and then got
back to bed to brush my teeth.
