Sleepwell Syndrome

Anup : Hi buddy, how r u ?
Nirmal : I m fine.. you say.. howz life going on over thr at onsite ?
Anup : its going on fine.. thnx.. howz work going on ?
Nirmal : bit hectic but fine... not a big deal
Anup : ok...
Niram : hey.. I hav a meeting in 5 mins so gotta go now... btw wats time ovr thr ?
Anup : its 12:45 am over here
Nirmal : isnt it late.. at wat time do u go to sleep ?
Anup : yup.. its late but not much.. had some work... abt to go to sleep in few mins..
Nirmal : ok.. I need to go nw... will catch u later... bfn
Anup : ok.. bye.. tc...

Anup thinks...yes its late here.. its 12:45 now... I need to get up at 8 tomorrow and need to go to office... lets go to bed.. he is really not feeling very sleepy but still.. need to get up early so its not good idea to be in front of lappy any more...

After 2 Hrs...

Anup : hi, how r u ?
Priya : hey hiiii.... after a long time.. how r u ?
Anup : I m fine.. life is going on coool.. howz abt u ?
Priya : I m fine here.. life is going on as usual.. nothing new.. rohit has left the company... a new guy has joined our team... our manager has really gone mad and giving us very strict deadlines.. blah.. blah...blah.... (btw.. nothing is new as such !!)
Anup : ok..
Priya : btw.. it seems to be very late ovr thr.. wats time ovr thr ?
Anup : its 2:50 am over here
Priya : anup.. its too late... go to bed..
Anup : yes it is.. lemme go to bed now... cya..
Priya : byeeeee.. tc
Anup : bye..

finally Anup goes to bed... next day at 7:50... the alarm starts ringing.. beep.. beep.. beep.. beep... Anup gets up.. sets alarm for 8:30 and again goes to bed.. again the alarm starts yelling at 8:30 and he finally wakes up at 8:45... still bit sleepy but... need to go to office so don't have any other option..

so the question is... why didn't Anup went to sleep at 12:50 ? he should have gone to sleep at 12:50... if he had gone then it wud have been easy for him to get up on time and go to office with fresh mood... yup... you are absolutely right... and Anup is smart enough to understand that.. so lets see what happened between 12:50 and 2:50..

Anup goes to bed at 12:50... still not feeling sleepy but no other option as need to get up at 8:00... he really tries hard to sleep, struggles, fights... many other things (self explanatory !!) but.. he is not feeling sleepy.. he counts from 1 to 100 at least 5 times.. tries to concentrate his mind on one particular thing.. sleep... sleep.. sleep... but the more he concentrates, he goes on thinking thinking and finally... he gets up from bed and again starts chatting...


Well... this story might seem funny as well as interesting to you but its a sad reality for many guys... I have seen people over here suffering from what I call "Sleepwell Syndrome".. they go to bed to sleep... and again comes back in front of lappy in 1-2 hrs... and then next day... "hey man... i m feeling very sleepy... yest i went to bed at 12:30.. struggled for 1.5 hr nd finally got sleep at 2"... oh.. very sad...

Sound sleep has really become a luxury which everybody cant afford... or better say... its not there in everybody's luck... some other day, I was talking to a friend in India who had been in US for 2 yrs.. when i was chatting to him.. it was 1:30 am in India.. I asked.. hey.. why so late ? he said.. "kya kare yaar.. onsite ja ke ye gandi aadat lag gai hey... abhi to ye halat hey ki 2 baje tak nind hi nahi aati" (As I was at onsite, I have got habit of going to bed at 2.. Its really bad)..

If one wants to categorize the people for their sleeping practice, I will categorize them as following.

Category 1 : They get up at 7:30 in the morning and go to bed at 10:30 or 11:00 in the night.. They have the same schedule irrespective of its Monday or Sunday, Regular day or Holiday.. (very similar to famous Eggs ad in India, Sunday ho ya Monday, Harroj khao ande ... Whether its sunday or monday, have eggs)

Category 2: They get up at 8:00 in the morning and go to bed at 12:30 or 1:00.. In the weekends, they go to bed at 3:00 or 4:00 am... and then the next day, they get up at 11:00.. completes routines chores and again goes to bed at 2:30 or 3:00 pm till 6:30... Their weekends definition is 15-16 hrs sleep per day..

and finally the third category of people is there... they always try to fit in either category 1 or category 2 but they cant fit in any of them and remains in third category.. always..

So.. wat else... nothing... btw... Its very late here... lemme go to bed now :).. and ya... If any suggestion for third category people to shift in either of other categories, you are most welcome !!

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