Sleep

"To die, to sleep;

To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come"

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I have always had a strained relationship with sleep. I really love sleeping but 

detedt going to bed to sleep and definitely detest to wake up, or rather being 

woken by someone or by a damn alarm clock.

After only getting about three-four hours of sleep each night during the workweek for a period of about three years I was first put on pills to induce sleep, then to a "sleeping school", where I was thought routines to help me during the workweek.

I follow these routines strictly - I would say almost religiously if I weren't a 

damned Atheist. It has been really helpful. So nowadays I start signaling to 

my body whats going to happen by observing my own special routine and when I go to bed I fall asleep almost immediately. 

Once asleep I am hardly disturbed by anything happening around me. Men can snore, children can scream or my neighbors can go at it like crazy animals in heat, it makes no difference I just sleep through it like a baby.

The photo I am using in this post is beautiful, but there is also another reason why I use it here. The picture reminds me of how I sleep.

I have a big bed but I always sleep on the right side of it, never the left, it´s always left empty for someone. Just like the pale man in the picture I prefer sleeping on my left side.

If you want to see more of Elisabeth Ohlson Wallins photography please look here.  I recommend 
you take a look at her exhibitions "Jerusalem" and "Ecce Homo".