It’s a gift & a curse being a deep sleeper.
- I know plenty of people who have a particularly strenuous time falling asleep or staying asleep every evening.
I particularly would not wish that on my worst enemy because it sounds poor to me. At the same time, I do not suppose that people understand how hard it can be when you chronically fall asleep & cannot be stirred. Apparently, I am the sort of person who can be literally shaken without ever waking up, but my greater problem is how really I can fall asleep as long as I am in the right air conditions, literally. Since I was a kid, I have regularly slept in the room that was closest to the central cooling system. I remember several hot & humid summer time evenings when I would lie in my bed & listen to the cooling system device turn on & off until I fell asleep. Apparently, this association between sleep & cooling system effectively rooted itself in my brain & body. To this afternoon, I struggle to fall asleep unless I have a large Heating, Ventilation and A/C device nearby. The background sound that it provides right away lulls me into a deep & restful slumber. The only issue is, I cannot turn off my sleep response when I hear a central Heating, Ventilation and A/C system chugging along in the background. The moment that I get apartment each afternoon, I am almost guaranteed to pass out on the couch when the AC system kicks into gear; For the rest of the evening, my family cannot seem to wake me up… Unless they turn off the central cooling system & torture themselves with hot indoor air.