On Sleeping

Many are times I envy those who can just sleep anytime and anywhere. It's like these people have an inbuilt switch that can be turned on/off at a moment's notice. Meanwhile, I toss and turn in my bed, lost on the way. I think about things that happened recently which somehow becomes a starting point that inspires the restless mind to go skipping around in a muddle of memories and ideas. I believe I get some 'interesting' ideas that way.

Interesting in the sense that the ideas may have seemed quite good then though they have rarely withstood the coming of dawn, when a clearer mind prevailed. Or maybe I just forgot the better ones or reduced them so much in order to remember that they ended up losing all meaning.

There was once I had sketched out a pretty good (I felt) intro for an article I was doing. Yet I was only able to reproduce a pale imitation of it the next morning, mainly because I only remembered a single word, a case of over-summary. Which just makes me wish that there was a device that could 'take notes' when I'm lying down, trying to sleep. Something simple and convenient where I can jot down those elusive ideas before they are lost in the well of sleep, yet not so obtrusive that it makes my brain even more awake and harder to fall asleep. Like some kind of recorder that could translate my brain waves into coherent words or visual images while I'm falling asleep, which I could review the next day.

Does that sound like an oxymoron? Even while trying to sleep, I'm thinking of such useless thoughts. No wonder I can't fall asleep right?

P.S: I got the 'inspiration' for this entry while I was tossing around (for 1.5 hrs) last night.