Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26860891-20150808074527

Have you ever wondered why we sleep? Yeah, of course we heal and grow the most when we sleep but that's more of a side effect of a more important process. People haven't always slept, millions of years ago people were awake 24 hours a day. This allowed them to be safe from predators in the night. However, more recently (as long as people have documented it) people and many other animals have become unconscious at various times of the day. I’ll be talking about people, as that’s my specialty. Have you ever wondered why we grow and heal the most while we are unconscious? Have you ever wondered why people lose their interest and liveliness as they get older? Well the answer lies in what many consider to be just folklore. The encounters with it was in the mid-17th century in Eastern Europe. It was originally referred to as The Sandman. However, it would be more accurate to refer to them as The Sandmen. The folklore states he came every night and gave the people of the village good dreams by sprinkling sand over their eyes. This is false. Somewhere along the timeline of humanity (and possibly other creatures, again I’m not sure. I specialize in humans) your ancestors decided to trade life energy for strength. Now, this life energy isn’t what you’re probably thinking of. It most likely won’t kill you physically to lose it, and you won’t become pale and weak. This life energy is what makes you… alive in a sense. It’s why young children have imaginary friends, have vivid nightmares, and find everything down to the caterpillar on the front porch interesting. They drain it slowly, and not every single night as to not arouse suspicion, leaving us to believe it’s simply people growing up or maturing. However, despite doing this for countless years, the Sandmen have not perfected their craft. They have a “one size fits all” mentality, and it’s not tailored to each and every person. This can cause err... issues in certain individuals. This is what really causes sleep disorders.



Insomnia: People who suffer from insomnia have awoken very suddenly, not allowing the Sandman time to stop and get hidden. This means they saw its face. Now the subconscious of the person knows what can happen when you sleep, and refuses to do so at all costs. Your conscious has repressed the memory, but your subconscious remembers. This is why it’s near impossible to trigger. Your body is doing all it can to reject the medication so it doesn’t fall asleep. Whenever you do sleep however, a Sandman almost always comes to you and drains while it has the chance. This is what prevents the next issue from happening to 100% of people who suffer from insomnia.



Vivid dreams and recurring nightmares: Those who have this issue once awoke very suddenly, but instead of being scared you fought back. The Sandmen are giving you your space, and not draining from you for a while. Don’t mistake this for fear, they aren’t afraid of you. They could kill you in an instant. They could tear apart your mental state, firing nerves making you have a seizure, or maybe just make you kill yourself through seeing the horrors that you can’t see, but they can make you see. There are so many ways they could destroy you without even touching you, but they deem that unnecessary. What a waste of life energy it would be. So they give you time, and eventually the dreams should subside within a few years as the Sandmen get back to their normal routine.



Schizophrenia: Same as above, but you became aggressive more than once. They don’t bother with you and the life energy has built up your imagination so much you’re almost dreaming in real life. This could subside if they decide to give you another chance, but depending on how they feel you may never recover.



Sleep Paralysis: You awoke, but very slowly. So they hid. You know that feeling people refer to as “the intruder”? The feeling like someone is in the room with you choking you? Well that’s real. It’s out of view, most likely behind you or beside your bed choking you to prevent your screams. This shocks your mind so violently you are well, paralysed with fear. If you have this repeatedly, see your doctor about sleep medication to stop yourself from waking up.



Now you’re probably asking, “How do you know all of this?” Well people talk in their sleep sometimes, I know you do even if you don’t know it. Consult your doctor for a way to remedy this, it may annoy others around you at some point or another. Anyways getting side tracked. After hearing people talk in their sleep and seeing words on computer screens that were left on as well as notebooks left open, I guess I’ve just picked up on some English. Enough to get this down anyway. Well, I’ll see you later.  