May 23, 2003
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Post-Somnis Post-Mortem
I’ve been thinking about the insomnia/catharsis thing that happened a few nights ago. I ‘blogged about it here.
I was thinking about how problems want to be solved. They’re like water seeking sea level; they’ll just flow there if you let them.
The first obstacle is the word ‘problem.’ The term is a value judgement, rather than an assesment of causes and consequences. For instance, in my ‘blog, I have the problem of not being able to sleep. From the perspective of wanting to sleep, insomnia is a problem. From the perspective of finding the cause of the insomnia, the insomnia is an opportunity.
Also, I would have been unable to go straight from frustrated insomniac mode to fetal-ball catharsis mode, without attaching the grief at random to one of the zillion thoughts that were keeping me awake. The intermediary step was required, in much the same way that (to extend the water metaphor) a cascading waterfall has deep pools along its path.
I think the insomnia was an attempt to process whatever bad feelings were inside me. The chattering frustrating brain was supposed to make me feel bad enough that I expressed those deeper feelings, except that it would take a years’-worth of sleepless nights to even make a dent in it, and more would have built up in the meantime.
The problem wanted to solve itself, and it took quieting the mind in order to get to the place where that could happen. To some degree of success, at least. I’ve felt really good for the past couple of days.
Comments (5)
it’s your section of the universe seeking balance, is all…..
Well, at least you spotted it..Me..I’m the gopher at the end of the Air France runway wondering what that rumbling in my stomach is and why I’m suddenly ‘grub intolerant’.
Oh yea, and 2 props for your Meta Fu…didn’t even need foley effects for that one. Well done.
Sleep is a really weird thing. Either we LACK it, or we spend way too much time in it (I go through the extremes more than “normal” people, I guess). When I *do* sleep, I often wake up with answers to my “problems”. When I can’t sleep, I often lie awake and create MORE problems.
Thus, for me, SLEEP IS GOOD.
::does Handwaving Form, strikes a threatening pose, and says, in a voice that doesn’t sync up with his lips::
Your Meta Fu! Is no GOOD!
the ideogram for crisis also means opportunity in chinese. or i keep hearing that. crisis/catharsis/provocation to break through the status quo of the now and transform…………….
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