Sleep is good

[bobcatlb4205]

Why do we sleep? Is it to remember things from the past? Is it to rest ourselves before the next day? Do we sleep because we need it? Or do we sleep just to pass the time away? Good questions to be answered. Unfortunately, I don't have the answers to these questions. I believe that we sleep because we need to get away from the day that has just gone down. Many people the next day will say that they slept great yet many more people will say that they didn't sleep so well. As the voice for around 3000 students at my high school, I'd say that we didn't sleep too well last night or any night for that matter. Something is always happening to where we lose sleep because we are stressing over something that probably doesn't need to be stressed over. I know that when a big event comes up, I never sleep well the night before. The night before a huge district game doesn't pass too well. I always find myself awake wondering about how the game will turn out . Will I do everything right? What do I do if they run this play? How big is their line and how good are they really? Do they hit as hard as I do? This one question comes up every week: Are we ready to play up to our level? As you might as well have guessed by now, we football players have much to think about before our games. I normally try to go to sleep at least 30 minutes to a hour earlier than normal the night before a game. That way I can sleep and visualize what is needed. Yet the oddest thing that we as humans do is dream as we sleep. We don't know where they come from and we don't know what they mean. SOmetimes we see the next day before it happens and then when we live it, we encounter deja vu. I have done that many times before. Yet the dreams that sometimes escape me at one time or another come back another year or so down the road. Many times those dreams are actually nightmares. Sometimes, if we try hard enough, we can dream about anything or anyone we want. I know that for the past few nights that I have had dreams about one particular person (Sara). But it seems like the best dreams always come when you are getting ready to get up for the day. This is when all my dreams of Sara occur. It always pisses me off because all I want to do is dream about her and say "Forget going to school. This is more important." There are many times that I dream of the way that life probably should have been. I have had dreams where Rayla was with me later on in life and even dreams about my ex-girlfriend Meagan (Which I'm sad to say that I could dream of her. Woof!). My dreams of Sara have been good ones (I'm not telling you what happened) and I have always felt so good during the day reliving the dream. The oddest thing about dreams is that they can take you places and you didn't even know that you were there unless you wake up there. I have been awaken on our sofa, on the floor in my parent's bedroom, in the kitchen and, the oddest so far, outside in my front yard with my front window open. I was freaked out about that one for a long time. I can remember many mornings where my dad will ask me why I was walking around at 2:30 a.m. in the kitchen. I normally don't have any idea what he's talking about. One bad thing about sleep is that you also reveal secrets when you can't control what you say. I remember the last night we were in South Lake Tahoe where my dad woke me up asking me why I said "I'm gonna kill you you mother fucker!!! Don't be throwing that hand grenade bullshit at me asshole!!!" I was shocked when he told me what I had said in my sleep. He thought that someone was in the room trying to kill me. I hate to sleep-talk. It's the worst because you don't know you're doing it until you're called down on it at a later time. I get scared when I go on vacation because of the hotel rooms. The beds are right next to each other and they can hear everything that I said. Crazy, just pure craziness. The whole slee phenomena is just odd to begin with. I just wonder how it is to die in your sleep. I mean, how would you know that you're finished? Do you dream of something and then the lights go out on you or what? I don't know but I'd kind of like to find out the truth behind it all.

Sara, I'm sorry that I got off before you could explain to me whatever it was that you were going to explain. I didn't mean to do it. My mom just told me to get off and I did. If I ever do that again, e-mail me stating whatever it may be that you needed to say before I got off. I love ya, girl!!! ~Ryan