Sleepless, but Creative Nights

Last night I was unable to fall asleep. Why? Because some guy down the road decided to get his helicopter out and take it for a spin...a few times. This was at 2am roughly and if he thinks that he’d get away with a ‘quiet night time look’ I swear, I will go down there with a car, drive onto his lawn and hold my hand on the horn and see if he likes it. This isn’t just a one off time, he constantly does it! Ok, ok, so I don’t know whether it is him or the army messing about but really, they need to get their heads sorted out.

Another reason why I couldn’t sleep last night is another recurring problem which I suffer from. Despite it being highly useful for numerous purposes, it can still be regarded as a problem especially when sleep is in great need. At night, when I’m lying in bed, I tend to suddenly get ideas. Ideas for songs, fiction, comedy, and sketches. I have to constantly keep a notebook beside my bed in order to capture all the ideas which I come out with. However, if I don’t write them down, I’d tend to go over and over them in my head to make sure it sticks and thus can be written down in the morning but this also keeps me awake. I write it down and it helps me to shut my little inner voice.

When one idea has been successfully written down for the mornings’ viewing, the brain keeps going and new ideas come into play. Throughout the early hours of the morning, I would regularly get up to jot them down until my brain finally falls asleep. Why bother I hear you ask? Stupid mindless ideas? In recent years, I’ve come up with the best sketches or songs because of the late night ideas and may be seen as my best amateur work. A reason for the creativity at night may be due to my brain relaxing thus letting more ideas to be made and worked with. The brain works much harder during the day and as a methodical person, may brain does things in steps such as, ”Ok, I need to this, then after that I have to go over here and put this over there and then do that...” etc so when relaxed, the brain is more in tune to let ideas happen. Another reason may be is because my brain is semi-bored and not quite ready to go to sleep so then it amuses its self. This late night idea thing manifests itself in other people so I’m not absolutely different. It would be interesting to see if it commonly exists in night owl people rather than morning lark people, I myself am I night owl.