And I can love you ’till you drown

I’ve decided that the sleep I’m getting is wholly artificial. By that I mean that it isn’t due to natural biorhythms, but rather the medication I’m taking. Artificial sleep it seems, is only half as effective as natural sleep. I’ve gone from getting 4 hours of exhaustion sleep to 7 – 8 hours of artificial sleep, which is probably worth 4 to 5 hours of normal, healthy sleep. I’m still in deficit.

Sleeping is still a strange thing to me, I’m not entirely sure just how many times in the last seven years I’ve slept naturally. Right now though I wouldn’t say that my sleeping is bad, especially considering the really cool dreams I’m having, but I still often find it hard to get to sleep, and still often feel terrible once I get up.

I think I need Nina Persson to sing me lullabies to sleep;

Oh I wish my arms were wider
I wish that I could hide you
So you can rest and repair
Without the blanket of sorrow
The thick and the grey
Your blanket of woe
So heavy and stained
And it only weighs you down

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Just you sleep a little baby
Leave the world alone and later
If you wake up alive
That old blanket of sorrow
Could be feathers and down
Your blanket of woe
Would leave you alone
And I can love you till you drown

Come to me let’s drown
Come baby let’s drown
In feathers and down

(excerpts from Feathers and Down by The Cardigans)

Nina Persson has such a sweet voice, and when she sings things like that, you can’t help but fall in love with her. Seeing as she lives in Sweden, probably with some strapping young Swedish bloke, I’d settle for someone else singing it to me. Maybe Nina Miranda from Shrift. There’s just something about that name Nina…