It's times like this when I wish I was in the country surrounded by nothing but silence, maybe the occasional cricket. You see I have work tomorrow, and though I have to be up around seven, I'm still wide awake at one in the morning. Going to bed at a reasonable hour sounds easy right? Not for me. I've got this problem, well not really a problem, more or less a skill I can't turn off. I hear pretty much everything. For instance tonight I decided I would go to sleep at eleven. I'm laying down, I'm tired, I'm on the verge of falling asleep and then I hear it.... A car door slam shut down the road. It's okay I'm still going to sleep, I'll just have to ignore it. I'm calm, tired, eyes shutting when I hear something, except this something is followed by my dog getting up and barking frantically. I quickly jump out of bed, grab my glasses, and check on everything. Absolutely nothing. Back to bed, laying down, calming down, drifting away and.... Barking Barking Barking. Again I get up, walk to the window, check everything out and decide I'm going to stay up for a few minutes to find out what is going on. I'm watching... waiting.... listening until I hear a crash. I'm trying to find out where it came from while my dog freaks out, and I decide I'm going to sit and wait again. Now I'm wide awake, I don't know where the noise came from but it has stopped, I'm waiting for my brain to fall asleep and that's why I'm writing this. Good night.
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