The Hunt For The Elusive
Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., LMFT, CLC, SDS
What’s sleep?
The answer all depends on who is asking.
One answer depends on if you CAN answer this question with this firsthand knowledge- What’s a baby nurse?
For instance, if you’ve gotten yourself a good baby nurse in the past (who affords you peace of mind and time to rest), you may actually remember what sleep is!
Otherwise, for parents of a new infant, the concept of sleep is truly a fleeting memory.
What’s sleep?
Once more, that depends on your luck. If you have the unfortunate luck that for no apparent reason, you are having trouble falling asleep or staying asleep; And on top of that the added misfortune that some sleep-inducing medication is not working for you.
Yup- you may be thinking – yeah, what IS sleep?!
What’s sleep?
That depends on if your mate is willing to use a C-pap or other effective breathing device. Otherwise, THEY may still know what sleep is! But YOU certainly don’t!
Uh- huh, that lethal echoing vibration, we call a snore, can often let the emitter of it sleep soundly- – – while, YOU , their roommate, remains wide awake praying for a cease fire in the all night action.
Sleep:
That thing:
Every kid runs from!
Every parent lusts after!
Every teen, amazingly, can live without! (unless it’s time to wake them for school!) And Every Air Traveler is hoping their Pilot got enough of!
We live our lives often around our sleep schedule.
Unless, of course we are falling in love. Somehow, then, some alternate energy source keeps us going. Where it comes from, we have no clue. And where it goes when our first baby is born is even more of a mystery!!!
Yet, during that fleeting time of finding that certain someone…. sleep is the lowest thing on the needs list:
The saying goes – Love is all you need!
We are walking on air, so sidewalks become unnecessary!
Love is the food of life. So, food becomes unnecessary!
Love is blind. So, glasses become irrelevant.
Love conquers all – so SLEEP gets conquered too!!!
Still, for those of us who are functioning within the realities of day to day life, sleep is usually a necessary adjunct to that functioning! That may even be why our holiest day is called the day of rest!
Sleep is like the gas for our car. It helps us keep running. And yes, there is always a search for some alternate, more efficient source of energy. Though-So far, none has come to replace a good night’s sleep.
So, then we are left with the dilemma-what’s a sleep deprived person meant to do???!
I guess, only one viable solution has reared its head so far…….. Simply put….
Fall back in love!
