The Couch

Whenever my body becomes tired, everything shuts down and there is no stopping the urge to sleep. I often find myself in the position to need to sleep whenever I am doing my homework on the study couch. In other words, I fall asleep on the couch a lot. “Couch” is basically synonymous with “bed” for me. I swear, the couch is the sandman himself. I just can’t help myself when I am feeling tired and am sitting on it––I just go to sleep. Now the challenge for my family members is that I am a really heavy sleeper. So whenever they try to wake me up to actually go to bed, I don’t hear them at all. My sister told me that on one occasion she began “booping” my nose, but I didn’t even do as much as flinch. On another occasion while I was at Mati’s house doing homework, I fell into a deep sleep on her bed. She told me that she began to bounce on the bed next to my face calling my name in hopes of waking me up. The crazy thing is that I have no recollection of that event whatsoever. My family can get desperate at times, but I can’t blame them.

The common warning signs for when I am about to fall asleep is when I feel cold, when I wrap up in a blanket, when I get a bit grouchy, and when I don’t feel like doing anything but sleep. It’s funny because just a few minutes ago, Mom woke me up on the couch (a rare event) to write this blog post. Usually nothing in this world would get me up off of the couch, but the act of writing my blog post every night has become a habit…and there is also a grade attached to it, so I guess that is a motivating factor too.