12 April 2025

A Ramble of Thoughts as I Cannot Sleep

I once had a feeling that something was missing. I remember the date to this day. The 21st December 2019. I never did decide if it really was a sign from the universe that something was missing (or maybe it was that something was different, as two days later, I did find out that I was pregnant), or if it was just because a close family friend was having a life changing operation and could have died. Luckily he didn’t, but I still feel guilty that he went through that operation, because he really didn’t have to, and one of his reasons for wanting to was so that he would be physically able to walk me down the aisle one day, as my “father” figure. Well, I’ve never gotten married, and now I’m too old to.
          Anyways, this ramble isn’t about that. My thoughts were drawn to that moment in time, because today, something feels different, and I don’t know why. It isn’t now, necessarily, but at some point today, I felt strange, and I can’t quite figure out how to explain it. It wasn’t that something was missing… it was almost the opposite. Is that the right word? Probably not. Hmm… I guess different is the right word. It was only for a moment, but it was as though I felt like I did at some point in my past, but I can’t pinpoint at wheat point, when, where or why. I just remember feeling a very strange feeling of familiarity, but that this was something really distant at the same time.
          I know I am not making any sense at all, but I’m not really sure how to make sense of it. It was almost like something outside of my control finally fell into place, without me knowing it. Again, I know that sounds weird and it is weird, but it isn’t at the same time. My mum knows that certain things are going to happen before they do, and not normal things, like the rain or the postman arriving. I mean, she will have a random memory of a person that she hasn’t seen for ages pop into her head and within minutes, she will see them. Sometimes she serves a customer and knows that that specific interaction is the last time that she will ever speak to them and then a couple of days (sometimes even minutes later, on their walk home) they die.
          Now, I’m not saying that my mum is a psychic or anything like that. But it does make me wonder if some people are more sensitive to connecting with thoughts and feelings than others. It’s like how if one identical twin gets stung by a bee as a child, when they are adults, neither of them is sure which one got stung by the bee.
          The human brain is more complicate than a lot of people believe it to be. Today, I spent the day sorting through my belongings and attempting to declutter. I filled a bin liner with donations for the charity shop. It was only one bag, but it was a start, and I tidied up my things in preparation for moving one day… although at the moment, it is looking like I will have paid my mortgage for an entire year before I will be moving in. So, my thought process was, maybe my brain was remembering a time when I had a sort out, at some point in the past, and it put me in the same mind set that I was in back then.
          The strangest things about it all, is that my brain feels like it was in a similar place in time to right before I felt like something was missing. Could it be possible that I misplaced something for five and a half years, and I found it today, but I had no conscious recognition of it. I guess that is plausible. I’m not quite sure what else it could be. It’s not like I’m in the Sims and someone is returning the thing that they removed from my life all those years ago that I have no recollection of. And I have a pretty good memory.
          I do wonder if it is because I have been over-using up my brain’s mental energy these past few months. I have a constant heavy, fuzzy head that doesn’t go away. There is no relief from it, because I never stop over working my mental energy. If I’m not working, I’m doing life admin and paying bills. My brain doesn’t even stop, while I’m asleep. I wake up in the night, around 5-7 times. If I go to sleep around 8:30pm and wakeup at 4:55am, I usually get around six hours sleep. The nightmare/night terrors haven’t been that bad, but my imagination has been very overactive and panicky. I haven’t been able to remember any dreams – aside from an off Caitlyn and Jay one that I really wanted to turn into a short story, but I know I will never have the time to.
          And now, I am so tired that I can’t even remember the point to my ramble. There was a point to the ramble of my thoughts, as I try to fall asleep. I know that, earlier today, I had a conclusion to this mess of a ramble. Maybe it will come back to me in the morning. Hopefully I won’t shout, “Fusilli,” again in my sleep tonight.
          Goodnight to that one, random bot in Isreal that always provides a view for my blog.

- Josie -


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