My Insomatic Self

A normal person would sleep 6-8 hours of sleep for him/her to feel completely rejuvinated. For a normal person is takes them about 5-10 mins. to finally achieve dream state which no disturbance or any forms of distraction would be able to wake them up. If you are that person which i just describe then you are very bless that you may sleep soundly every night. For me on the other hand is a much complicated story.

Many times i couldn't achieve 8 hours of sleep instead my normal sleeping habit is sleeping around the wee hours of 2am then waking up early around 7:30-8am. Torture isn't it and trust me that's my normal sleeping time i had worst nights.

Here's another contradicting thought, i love drinking coffee and i couldn't start my day right without a nice hot cup of coffee. I usually drink coffee in the morning if i really need it but often i drink around noontime or in the late afternoon (which would be another probable cause for my insomia). But then again being an insomaic has its perks.

As an artist we never get that much sleep because our work loads (in art school we call them plates) would take most of our time. I would say that fine art students doesn't get as much sleep same as medical students taking up their proper. The work loads kills us but hey i'm not complaining actually most creative ideas comes from staying up late or not sleeping at all. I could remember working 3 straight days without sleep and on the 4th day i crash in my room for one entire day (just imagine how wasted i was back then).

Most of the time i deliberately stay up all night whenever i'm working on my artworks. I could draw for 6 hours straight and only leave my chair just for meals and the bathroom. Once i get stuck working on something i never leave it for tomorrow unless i have the time to spare.

Even group work was fun staying up all night trying to figure out the marketing plan for our next ad campaigns . Working 4 hours on the designs and sketches which are to be submitted the next day for approval, usually i wouldn't sleep in situations like these cause once i hit the shack there's no coming back.