Sharon Eappen

Prologue: The city in which I currently study, which is distant from the city I grew up in, is quite an oven during the summer months. For people like me, who have disturbed sleep due to rise in temperatures or wake up in the middle of the night to a sweat-soaked bed and decline in falling back asleep immediately, it can be quite a task to maintain a consistent sleeping pattern especially on academic working days. To make it worse, I sleep on the top bunk of my bunk bed which means the fan's breeze does not conveniently deviate to reach me. This is one such night - probably the worst of all my nights - which had to top with me going to university the next day and my body feeling the ache of not sleeping. Back after class, the evening was no good since although I was lying down I could not fall alseep. And so this is one such piece written out of frustration from a bad night's sleep and having to deal with not being able to fall sleep when followed up with. Ins...