Sleep deprivation and insomnia part deux

Sleep deprivation and insomnia, not a fun combination.

The hallucination of chimpanzee that crept up to my desk and nicked my Oreos  and Dr.Pepper was real enough that it caused me to do a triple take. 

I’ve often referred to myself as a narcoleptic bear with sleeping sickness searching for a place to hibernate.  For most of my life I've never slept well, lucid and intense dreams always woke me up after an hour and a half or two hours. I would then be awake for ten or twenty minutes. An hour and a half later I was awake once again. Lather, rinse and repeat, all night, every night.  Booze, herbal remedies, legal and sometimes not-so legal pharmaceutical products rarely helped.  Positive results were rare enough that I learned not to count on such aids…Otherwise; I might be in serious need of rehab.   As I’ve aged the quality of sleep has improved.  It’s still not perfect, the insomnia is better, but now I get to play with the pain a wonky back, blown out shoulders, arthritic knees, neck and ankles provide. 

And people wonder why I’m a curmudgeon…