2067, how I yearn for thee.

I know I don't contribute much to this "group blog" of which, to be perfectly honest I still don't really understand the purpose of - however I can not sleep, feel like writing and as a consequence shall proceed to write about being unable to sleep.

Remove the shirt, and place a laptop on the bed - it's me!

No doubt, you know of an "identity" on these pages who suffers from bouts of Insomnia, well if we're keeping a list of such people, you can count me in. Tonight is one of those nights. I've been sitting at this computer for nearly the entire evening, from around 6pm til now, albeit with about 2 hours break when my best friend visited for some quality time with Donkey Kong Country. So it's what, 2.30am now? That's about 6.5 hours at this screen. Granted I did do some blogging, and write a short news article for Vooks - but aside from that could we call this anything short of an internet addiction?

 Curse you ice level! I blame you for this! Oh the pain :\

You know, I'm not even sure it's that. Maybe it's a technology addiction. However, what I do know is, my heavy reliance on the internet and technology itself does prevent me from doing other activities, such as exercise, more acceptable levels of socialising - and plain just leaving the house. This is one problem, but as I alluded to before, I believe it runs deeper than that. I think this reliance morphs sleep into something I neither really wish to do, nor can due to over stimulation of my mind.

Why would I sleep, when I could make this blog post - further stimulating my mind? It's ironic that I'm making this post because my mind is simulated, preventing me from sleep. It's a cruel, vicious and unforgiving cycle. "I'm thinking too much and I can't sleep" "Why don't you do something then?" "Now I'm thinking even more and sleep seems even more out of reach." Curious, no?

Another curious point is: if I have a day of feeling completely lethargic, I can actually follow a decent sleeping pattern, indefinitely. However, if this slips for a single day - it does back to the same 11-12 noon risings from bed, leaving a good 3-5 hours completely wasted on this non-achieving activity we call rest. However is there a solution? I'm not so sure. An on/off switch would be desireable.

How's this: In the future we'll have nanomachines that with a flick of a button can actually put us to sleep for a set period of time - but still wake us up if they detect loud noises, fire etc. People in the future will have things so easy.

 Snake approves.

To close; as my laptop battery is lurking torwards dangeours levels of lowness, I bid you adieu and good night. Aiming for a 9am wake.