Thinking of grand ideas

This is a story about how a blog about falling asleep came to be.

For some reason, one of my brain's favorite hobbies when I'm trying to fall asleep is dreaming about all of the great things I could be doing with my life in the near future. For example, I have a school project that I'm doggedly trying to turn into a patent, but my 5 other team members are often slow to respond and I often get distracted by work and the patenting process at my school seems to be a huge chore, so the project has only taken some slow and tiny steps towards what seems to be a very distant goal. I don't think about this project much during the day; not at work, since I'm trying (and probably failing) to focus on work, and not at night, since I'm trying (and possibly failing) to focus on winning whatever video game I happen to be playing. But as soon as I tell myself it's time to fall asleep, and I'd better fall asleep now otherwise I'll be tired tomorrow, my brain just goes "HEY, so how about that patent, eh?!" To which I reply "Eh? Go to sleep, you crazy bugger." Which simply seems to encourage my brain to go "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if you got a patent out of the project and it catches the attention of a big company, like Hasbro? What if they want to buy it from you for A MILLION BUCKS? How cool would that be? Or what if you just turn it into a product on your own? You'd be a frickin' billionaire!" And so on and so forth until it's exhaustively detailed about 5 ways that I could become rich and successful and famous, provided that I start working on the patent NOW. And at this point my sleep-deprived sense of reason is just nodding along like an eager puppy going "Yeah, yeah! Let's get started right now!" Which probably would've driven me to jump out of bed and start firing off emails to my MIA group members had my body not already been half asleep. And my brain is fine with that, it'll just keep babbling on about my next big idea. Which lands "thinking of grand ideas" in the huge bucket of "how I don't fall asleep" tips.

Somehow, last night, as I was making my way down my list of mostly useless sleeping tricks, my brain piped up with "HEY, you should make a site for people to share their sleeping tricks!" To which my rather peeved sense of reason actually perked up and said "You know what? I think I might just do it...tomorrow. Now SHUT UP." It then moved on to the next sleeping trick on my list, which, combined with the Nyquil, actually seemed to work. But that's a tale for another post!

The End.