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Positive: Acting on impulses that perhaps would never be experienced if sleeping. Riding a bicycle in the rain late at night can often give me a smile.
Negative: The inability to think straight at times when its most important. That, and not being able to summon the energy to appear in places when its most important.
Does anybody think the way they deal with insomnia would change if they were in a different location? Britain is often wet, and I sometimes think that a place with drier night times especially may encourage a more “pro-active” nocturnal life, perhaps transforming perceptions of insomnia from affliction to something that can be negotiated in a more positive way.
Thanks for the welcome everybody!
Baron, I like your take. I think insomnia can be interpreted in many different ways, depending on exactly the constraints set before people in their own lives. I don't have a traditional 9am – 5pm job myself, and so perhaps find it easier when I get struck with irreconcilable sleeplessness, to justify spending that time “getting on” with other things. Industrial work patterns are hardly the most natural of dispositions placed on the human mind, and I'm sure they are what adds to the anxiety that some people suffer when dealing with insomnia. Its hard not to think of insomnia as something abnormal, though surely a regulated, like clockwork, sleep pattern is just as abnormal? Its a shame that we don't live in some sort of utopia that allows for people to labour and love as and when they choose, though if we did, then perhaps many ailments and conditions would no longer be seen as negative!
Also, I understand that the sensual affects of the city as a place are rather superficial in regards to exactly what disturbs or prevents the elusive realm of sleep. Though the flip side of it can be the liberation of exploring dark spaces that are so often portrayed as demonic and criminal in the media. Walking the city at night when not out socialising or travelling elsewhere can really open up new paths and new insights into the places that we think we already know so well. That's what I'd like to think anyway!
Cheers,
Pete
