sleep

My female owner “sleeps like a koala, eats like a cow” – a description that was given to her by her travelling buddies during the Melbourne Escapade. Actually, she really has the “gift” of sleeping anywhere, anytime, any position, much to the envy of many around her.

However lately, she has been having problems getting good sleep. She enters into what she calls “shallow sleep”, where she wakes up every now and then from whatever dreams she was having. One reason is that the weather has turned cold and she can’t fall asleep properly. So she meanders around before entering into deep sleep. The same problem extends into the mornings, when she wakes up too early, because of the cold. She would go back to sleep but face problems later getting out of bed (not waking up) because of the cold. So although she spends more time in bed now, it’s not quality rest. In fact, there were a few times when she woke up with leg cramps (possibly because of the cold). Ah.. she sounds cold-blooded! All the fats she put on are still not enough to insulate her. Dysfunctional fats.

Oh, and the dreams she’s been having are quite scary too. Last night, she dreamt that she was back at her former workplace and she was activated to attend to a suicide case. Apparently the senior police officer (someone whom she knows, but only in the dream) had jumped off a building and eye-witnesses had seen the officer leaping into the air before being pulled down by gravity (like an inverted “U”).