I Can't Sleep at Night

outside which gives me a strange, ominous feeling. I arrive at the store hoping I am able to restore my 12-gauge I bought here a couple months ago. As I’m searching for the tools that would help patch up my gun and settle my problem, I notice a young man in the store just browsing around, and not seeming to obtain any previous experience with firearms. Even Though I am not a worker, I’m curious to see what he could possibly be looking for in here. I also think he seems lost and it’s better to…

NCLEX Success Plan • Needs Assessment o Based on my Kaplan Diagnostic Test score of 67.8% I fall into the category of situation four. Therefore, I will need to do a great amount of review and studying to prepare myself for a passing grade on the NCLEX examination. o Weakest Areas Include:  Pharmacology  Nursing Judgement  Pediatrics Growth & Development  Critical Thinking  Setting Priorities o Review Time  4000/60 minutes= 67 Question Hours  21-23 Review hours  2-4 Expert hours • All…

I've been finding myself lying awake more and more recently, tossing and turning and tangling the blankets, unable to sleep. Getting into staring contests with the shadows pooled like ink in the edges of my room. Now, insomnia is a problem a lot of folks have, and I’m certainly no stranger to it. Stress, problems- kids, bills, the corrosive apathy of suburbia- they fester and rot in the recesses of my thoughts, and the sleeplessness lets itself in through the holes all that shit eats away. Just…

Now, Ellie is distrustful yet charming. She can’t take anymore and will do whatever is necessary to know stability once more, including running away. Her feelings only intensify the closer she comes to the birth of the baby. She has begged him to speak with the doctors about his dreams. He won’t! Every time the subject comes up, he’s emphatic. He doesn’t dream! Making a special dinner, she recalls when he came back from his second tour in Iraq. Then, she went to the airbase to wave a flag. The…

you might can’t sleep, don’t want to hang or go places with any of your friends, and want to call and talk to him. Even though things get tough, everyone goes through a difficult breakup sometimes in life. To begin with, one problem when I had my first breakup is I could not sleep. I was stressing so bad that I stayed up almost till the sun came up. It’s kind of hard to just try to fall asleep after you and someone that you love ends a relationship. When it’s time to go to sleep at night, the…

The Tell Tale Heart “I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever.” Have you ever read “The Tell Tale Heart”? If you have you would know that it is a very well written story. It shares a lot of details about what happened and what is going to happen. I really did enjoy reading it but it did sort of make me mad. It made me mad because he killed an innocent man just because he had an unusual eye. In the beginning of the story, the narrator said the…

senses sharper. First,Mr. Smith cannot tell a fantasy from reality. “But I found the eye always closed; and it was impossible to do the work; for it was not the old man who vexed me, but his evil eye.” (56) Mr. Smith can’t kill Mr. Johnson when his eyes are closed, because when Mr. Johnson looks at Mr. Smith that is when he gets angry and his blood runs cold. Then,Mr. Smith believes that he has some power over Mr. Johnson. “I felt the extent of my powers.” (56) Mr. Smith is going mad with anger…

Sleep paralysis There was once a time where I almost lost total control of my life, where I almost let the demons in my head crush and bully me into submission. The experience of losing control of my body almost every night caused me to be terrified of sleeping to the point of where I would stay awake many nights just so I wouldn’t see the monsters that lived inside my head. I lost my comfort, a part of my sanity, and a part of myself that I will never get back. Sleep paralysis is witnessing…

The Big Sleep is a movie which is based on Chandler's novel. It has an interesting title because there was nothing about sleep during the movie. Besides sleep, there were a lot of deaths. Therefore, sleep which means being nearly unconscious may have been used to refer to death. The movie was about a detective who undertakes a job of saving an old millionaire man's daughters from blackmailers. However, it did not stay that far because the daughters were not innocence also. First of all, almost…

Sleep away camp, is often times a child’s first time away from home for longer than one night. This can be a scary, and overwhelming experience for many children. The society in which children grow up in modern day, is filled with scenarios that most adults can’t comprehend and being away from home as a child worried about these scenarios can compound the associated anxiety and stress in children. Sleep away camps are often times filled with activities: activities that on the surface sound…