Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Insomnipresent

I'm an insomniac. I can't sleep much of the time, and much of the time I'd like to be sleeping, or eating, or eating then falling asleep. Ever since 9th grade, I remember having a hard time falling asleep. I average anywhere from one hour to five hours on any given night. One of the easiest things to do in life, and I can't even do that right. I can watch TV successfully though... that I can do. But right now I'm ignoring my television, too many commercials, and lame shows: it doesn't seem to mind, my tv... cursed television (cursed pronounced "curse-Ed" for slight comedic value).
So the other day at school my friend says to me: "I have the gift of getting people to do whatever I want them to do." I told him: "that is one of the best gifts I've ever heard of." Some people I know say they have the gift of prophecy, helps, teaching, leading, discernment etc... basically gifts that have never impressed me... but getting people to do whatever you want them to do... that's a gift that I wanted bad, plus I didn't even know it was an option, but I don't think it's listed in the Bible, at least not in the Bible that I have (but it is a NIV Bible, so there could be translation issues). But I told him the truth: "I have the gift of insomnipresence." He gave me the dumb face. The face that said... I have no clue what you're talking about, and if I did know what you are talking about, I probably wouldn't care in the slightest. I like people like that, because I know where I stand with them. But I explained the gift of insomnipresence to my friend anyway: "insomnipresences is different than omnipresence, which I've been told is an attribute of God (omnipresence is an attribute of God, not insomnipresence). A professor I had some years ago at Multnomah said, "God is present everywhere all the time, except Hell. That's omnipresence." Immediately I knew I did not have omipresence because I wanted to be anywhere but sitting in that class bored out of my mind, but I was definitely only able to be in that class at that time. Years later I realized I had insomnipresence, which is - the ability to be present anywhere, and be really tired, and yet unable to fall asleep." My friend's dumb face, burst into laughter as he felt, like me, that insomnipresence was the worst gift ever. So I knew then that he must be my nemesis or arch rival- If we were comic book heroes. But we are not comic book heroes, so the whole comic book suggestion was a complete waste of words, and I still have a difficult time getting to sleep. So if you have any suggestions for me, that I haven't already read about or tried, feel free to leave me a comment. But... just so you know, I've read extensively about insomnia, and I've tried just about everything. Cheers