I think I'm a periodic insomniac.

You know those people who have medical problems but never go to the doctor?  That's me.  In my family if you had a problem, you toughed it out and didn't go to the doctor, unless you had swallowed a penny or a tiny battery.  I used to get terrible stomach aches and I'd be soothing my stomach while sitting over the toilet and I didn't even think to tell my parents.

Also, recently I was initiated into the world of yeast infections.  I never realized that I had yeast infections until I talked to my doctor about it and she they are fairly common.  I just took everything in a stride and thought that I was normal, when in reality I had been having yeast infections pretty much from when I was a kid.

So when I have trouble sleeping, I know it's because I slept to much the day before and don't really consider it a medical problem, the insomniac and the hypersomnia parts.  I'm too much of a bum to find out what's wrong at the doctor and I am on three psychiatric medications, so it might be side effects.  I've been using home remedies for helping me get to sleep.

I feel like if I claim at the doctor that I have a problem, I'll be saddled with a label and a disease, but if I just ignore the problem, maybe it will go away.  I think a lot of Americans are like this.  That's why we think we don't need health insurance.  If I don't think I need help, maybe I really don't need help when I need it.  Kind of silly, but we like to take a gamble.

So I can't sleep some nights, and those nights, I take some 1 Thessalonians 5:6 and attempt to take the position of a watchman for the sword falling upon the land.  Things are mostly peaceful here in Arlington, but you never know.

Ephesians 6:12

12 For our wrestling is not against ^1ablood and flesh but against ²the ^brulers, against the authorities, against the ^cworld-rulers of ³this ^ddarkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the ^4eheavenlies.

I put a lot of emphasis on waking up early, and the best way to be awake early in the morning is never to go to sleep.  My friend quotes me, saying, "Sleep is great if you can catch it,"  and that's pretty much how I feel about sleep.