Sleep

All of my life I have had a love hate relationship with sleep. I think you are a born sleeper, or a non-sleeper. Guess which category I fall into???? The last two nights have been terrible, sleep wise. It occurred to me yesterday that it is the Halloween season contributing to this. I really don't like this season. I believe that a lot of dark energy is released on the planet. The release of more dark energy than usual, disturbs my sleep. Nightmares, anxieties, and weird things plague me when I am trying to sleep and during my sleep. I have tried almost everything  "out there", natural and pharmaceutical, to help with sleep. I have come to the conclusion that there is no help. You sleep or you don't. I dream a lot. Some dreams are what I call  lucid dreaming. That means that I know I am dreaming, but I can control many, if not all, aspects and directions of the dream. I dream in color and black and white. I see dead people. I see things that may or may not happen.... I see unborn babies. I fly a lot in my dreams.
When I wake up after six hours of unbroken sleep, I am ecstatic! It is such a rarity.
The upside of not sleeping is productivity. I get a lot done, because I am awake. I also get to read a lot.
I read that "not sleeping" is harder on your body than almost anything else you can do. I wonder if it is really all the caffeine that I use. (Not as much as I used to, and rarely past noon!).
I have never wanted to waste my time sleeping. I have so many things I want to do, so many books I want to read, so many movies I want to watch..........Really? I have to sleep?????
When I was a child, I would read late into the night, with a flashlight under the covers, until my parents just gave in and let me stay awake and read. My own children did that, too. One of my children is a good sleeper and one is like me? Genetics?
I don't often get sleepy. I tend to be an energizer bunny kind of person.  I have always envied my friends that can sleep anywhere, and do! Every once in awhile, I will do a 10 min power nap. I hate a nap longer than that, because it will totally take away any chance I might have of sleeping at night. Even when I "power nap", it is not really sleep. Little more than a doze.
I have read that I am not alone in this. Many people, famous and infamous, young and old, and from all walks of life do not sleep.
I say that I will sleep when I am dead. I am not even sure that is true!!!