{"id":6808,"date":"2022-10-12T01:57:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T01:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6808"},"modified":"2024-02-08T10:04:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T10:04:22","slug":"gaaah-insomnia-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6808","title":{"rendered":"HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Gaaah! Insomnia strikes again\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_4882.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6809\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_4882.jpg 976w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_4882-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/img_4882-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m typing this at roughly 2.45 a.m. I think I\u2019ve dozed for about 30 minutes, perhaps? Other than that, I\u2019ve been wide awake all night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some ways I don\u2019t mind. What I mean by that is that I\u2019m not in a highly agitated state. But as I know that there will be \u2018payback\u2019, there is a dull and muted sense of dread. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, ironically, my worst nights are often those that precede my most demanding days. So it\u2019s Tuesday night, and I need to be sleeping properly, as Wednesdays are my busiest teaching day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel relatively okay right now. Like I ought to feel during the middle of an active day. But how am I going to feel midway through teaching? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teresa, meanwhile, sleeps like a champ. Just as she always does. She\u2019s a gold medalist ninja snoozer, whilst I\u2019m an F-grade dunce, sleep wise! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s all particularly galling, in a way, as I\u2019ve only recently read Walker\u2019s excellent <em>Why We Sleep<\/em>, so I\u2019m particularly aware of the need to sleep properly. Hey ho! It is what it is\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m typing this at roughly 2.45 a.m. I think I\u2019ve dozed for about 30 minutes, perhaps? Other than that, I\u2019ve been wide awake all night. In some ways I don\u2019t mind. What I mean by that is that I\u2019m not in a highly agitated state. But as I know that there will be \u2018payback\u2019, there &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=6808\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HEALTH &amp; WELLBEiNG: Gaaah! Insomnia strikes again\u2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[89,81,118,68,100,111],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-1LO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11589,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions\/11589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}