{"id":665,"date":"2008-05-01T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T22:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=665"},"modified":"2008-05-01T15:01:27","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T22:01:27","slug":"thinking-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"thinking too much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an insomniac. I thought I&#8217;d managed to break free of the evil grip of <em>no sleep<\/em>. I have experienced <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">hours<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">days<\/span> weeks of decent sleep since I quit my past job in spring of 2007 and started working at the college.\u00a0\u00a0 Lately I&#8217;ve noticed that I&#8217;m starting to have difficulty sleeping once again.<\/p>\n<p>I used to think that my inability to sleep was related to stress.\u00a0 Perhaps it is.\u00a0 But, exams aside, I don&#8217;t really feel stressed\u00a0these days.\u00a0 At least not due to work.\u00a0 My jobs being reclassified (ergo, promotion) and my contact is being renewed.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had an opportunity to work on papers and with some amazing minds.\u00a0 I&#8217;m learning something new most days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That said, I just can&#8217;t seem to turn my brain off at night. I spend time thinking about work, school, the hubby&#8217;s upcoming trip, etc. Thoughts roll around in my head.\u00a0 Future plans.\u00a0 Reminder notices to self.\u00a0 Occassional conversations with myself.\u00a0 I often wonder how people&#8217;s brains work. I wonder if I&#8217;m the only one who can&#8217;t turn it all off and go to sleep &#8211; no matter how desperately I want to do so. I think that&#8217;s why I decided to study psychology instead of sociology when I returned to university.<\/p>\n<p>For now, I&#8217;ll settle for a good night&#8217;s sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m an insomniac. I thought I&#8217;d managed to break free of the evil grip of no sleep. I have experienced hours days weeks of decent sleep since I quit my past job in spring of 2007 and started working at the college.\u00a0\u00a0 Lately I&#8217;ve noticed that I&#8217;m starting to have difficulty sleeping once again. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}