I have been thinking about sleep. I have been having some headache problems and it caused sleep problems in the weirdest ways. My headaches cause me to feel cold. Then, the cold and my headache rescue meds get me to feeling really sleepy. When someone experiences low body temperatures, the condition causes the person to feel very tired until the body warms up. I get to experience that same situation. It is so strange because it is like a huge, weighted blanket holding me down and I just can’t wake up until my body starts to warm up.
Sleep feels so strange because it doesn’t feel exactly like a choice. Sometimes, it feels like a bodily function that just comes over me that I really can’t control. Yet even when I am sleeping, sometimes I dream and sometimes I am still aware because I have lucid dreams. I don’t know what to think of sleep. It sometimes feels scary when it feels like I can’t really control when and how long I sleep. However, I do know that when I feel cold, I have to have faith that the sleep will help me to feel better and warmer with time.
The other thing is many people call death as the “big sleep”. When that “big sleep” comes, I am also going to have to have faith that come what may, God will be with me, and it will be for the best.
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
