Thought Overflow

This is what happens to you when you haven’t been getting enough sleep:

• You wake up feeling tired, you go through the whole day feeling tired, you go to bed feeling tired.
• It takes all the strength in your body to sit up in bed when you wake up in the morning. And when you try to raise your hand to your face to rub your eyes, it feels like it’s been tied down with some heavy load.
• Random muscles in your body begin to ache, dully.
• Your vision gets selectively blurry, especially in class.
• Emotions take a roller-coaster ride. One moment you feel like you’re at the top of your game, like you’re going to conquer the world and your life, and you’re going to be everything that your potential promised you. Thirty seconds later, you feel like life isn’t worth living, like MBA is a useless degree, that money doesn’t account for anything, and that nothing in the world can make you happy…ever.
• Sounds start to get muffled, like they’re coming from a distance.
• Your digestive system rebels. You feel hungry, but you don’t feel like eating anything either.
• You lose focus.
• You hate your classes.
• You hate your life.
• You hate yourself.

Not all of the above have happened to me. Also, these symptoms occur in varying degrees of sleep deprivation.

PS: This is thoroughly unrelated to sleep or sleep deprivation, but if you like soft music with good melody, and if you have not heard Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours”, please do yourself a favour and listen to it. It’s almost the only thing I’ve been listening to for the last day or two.