I am. Every morning, I wake up at 3 a.m. Sometimes I am able to use meditation techniques to stop ruminating. Sometimes, my mind is racing so much that I can’t stop it, and I toss and turn until the alarm goes off at 4:45. The worst part of this is that my cat senses …
Tag: Insomnia
Awakening & Cats
This morning I woke up before the alarm went off. I do this sometimes. I generally wake up and get out of bed at 5 a.m. because I like the silence of the early morning, before the traffic increases in the streets outside my windows and my husband gets up and puts on the TV …
Chewing on Your Shroud
One theory about the origins of vampirism is that people created vampire folklore to explain natural occurrences that they didn't understand, among them, the strange sounds they sometimes heard near recent - but not necessarily fresh - graves. [See, for example, Vampires, Burial, and Death.] We know now that these sounds are the natural sounds …