The Introduction

My Story of being an Insomniac.

My case of insomniac wasn’t really a bad one. I begin to have this problem when I temporarily moved over to my aunt’s place to watch over her dogs and her garden. This was for a 3 week stint and I was having sleepless night for over a week. During this time I rarely go for my usual jog that I would take at least 3 times a week but could only manage to jog once a week (due to laziness and fatigue).

I used to be able to sleep easily. My wife would say that I could fall asleep so easily that within a count of 10, I would be snoring till the next morning about 530am when it is my wake up time. So you could imagine the frustrations that I have when I couldn’t sleep.

After a week of being at the new place, my lack of sleep was taking a toll on me. During this time I had signed up for a Bridge Run (just a 10km) in the middle of the month. I remember I couldn’t sleep at all on the night before the run and it was all down to nervousness (aka stress). I needed a solution for my lack of sleep as my performance during my work dropped tremendously and was falling ill as well.

On the nights that I could fall asleep, I would choose to sleep in and clock in an hour or 2 extra to put back the sleeps that I missed. I thought after I moved back to my own place, my sleep would be back to its original state.

Sadly after 2 weeks plus, I have yet to have it back. Instead the lack of sleep persists and I was lacking sleep as well. I could now imagine how bad it would be for insomniacs that has embraced it as part of their life. It would have been such a stressful way living when sleep is one of the best luxuries in life. So after enduring this problem for 7 weeks, I begin a journey to a better sleep and I am going to write about it to help others.