Tag: sleep
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Sleep, that knits the ravelled sleeve
At first, in a long hospital residency, and finally, a lengthy and enjoyable career as an on-call obstetrician/gynaecologist in a busy hospital practice, I found it difficult to fall asleep for those seemingly brief periods between gynaecological emergencies requiring surgery, and managing an often busy obstetrical ward. Somewhere along that continuum, I learned self-hypnosis and…
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To sleep, to die, perchance to dream…
Just to be clear, I don’t actually have a wish to hibernate; I am still quite happy with sleeping: I like the large selection of dreams. I also like the idea of waking up if and when my bladder needs me or, I suppose, if the refrigerator signals to me in the middle of the…