I can’t do it …
For a few years in 1999 – 2001 I had to take the bus and the train from Artesia to Hollywood, CA for work. I enjoyed the rides since I am at heart a people watcher and you get some very good people to watch on the bus and the train. However, those same people created an inability for me to sleep in public.
Once on the train, I fell asleep. When I woke up, several things were missing and someone had thrown up on me. Another time, I woke up with a crazy dude about an inch from my face. He thought it was the funniest thing in the world. I was not amused.
I bring this subject up now because of my recent visit to the county ER. You can read about that on my previous post. Jim, my friend that I took to the ER, had no problem falling asleep at will – he snores too. I kept thinking, that must be nice. I even tried a couple of times. Could’nt do it. no matter how tired I was, I could not bring myself to relax enough to doze off. A couple of times I almost made it and I would notice some movement of hear a noise and BAM!! wide awake.
Maybe it is a good thing though. Who knows what might have happened if both of us had fallen asleep in the ER. We may be still waiting there right now, wondering why our name was never called.
Ultimately, I feel that sleep is a VERY private thing. That is the only time you are completely out of control. You may or may not do things while you sleep, but that is the whole point. You don’t know. Maybe you have the habit of every night getting up and taking all your clothes off and dancing a jig. Is that really something you want to do in the waiting room of the county ER? Of course, it might help you fit in with the others that are there.