Asleep but not really

You know those nights when you just can't sleep? Or even worse, when you can sleep but you are aware of the fact that you are sleeping, so then it's not like you're really sleeping? Or does that only happen to me? Maybe so...

If you have never experienced that horrible asleep but not asleep kind of sleep, I will explain:

You crawl in the bed at say 11:00pm. Lay down, get comfortable, and start to drift. Then your cursed brain decides that now is the perfect time to exercise both hemispheres in some evil corrupt sleep deprivation/multi tasking experiment.

Then, you start thinking. Thinking about every little thing that you did or did not get accomplished today. You rehash the confrontation with the stupid person in the grocery store who can't read a freakin' sign that clearly says '10 Items or Less' and feel bad for having acted like a fool. Or maybe you start to fantasize about the confrontation you could have had, and what you should have said, if only you weren't so afraid of confrontation. At the same time you are now 10 years old, walking through a forest and talking to some other kid who has wings and green hair and  is apparently your best friend in the whole wide world, about the effects of a solar eclipse on underwater eggplants.

Simultaneously, you are trying to will yourself to sleep. You silently shout obscenities at your brain hoping that it will give in to your seemingly reasonable ransom demand for sleep. This goes on until you finally sit straight up and look at the clock - it is now 3:00 am. So, you grab a pillow ( that, by the way, you can't return now even though you desperately want to because it's medium firmness lasted for about 2 nights) and head downstairs to sleep on the couch.

That was my night last night...