How to stay awake at nught
DAVE: hey
ROSE: Sup.
-Homestuck
When I was a child I watched Inuyasha on Adult Swim. It came on from midnight to two a.m., and I had to keep myself awake until it came on if I wanted to watch it. I would put my headphones on and sit close to the screen as it cast a gentle glow over my bed, listen to the babble of the television, and shiver in the night air.
Now I'm a teenager, and I have an iPhone. This makes illicit nighttime television watching much easier. My headphones are nicer, more comfortable and with better sound. I lay in bed, wrapped in soft, warm blankets, smelling tea from a cup left in my room. I drink chai with almond milk, which is sweeter than the real thing, and when I bake cookies I dip them in it. The smell and taste are both sweet, sugary and milky. Moonlight filters in through the window silvery and delicate, I'm sure, but it's drowned in the bright yellowy glow of the street lamps. If I let my eyes adjust I could see by it, but I never take them away from the light of my phone.
I watch episodes of Avatar: the Last Airbender and Supernatural. My friend Nathan is watching Digimon again, season by season, so I check that out. It's as good as I remember, the characters vibrant and the story enthralling. My headphones press on my ears for so long that when I take them off they're sore, but I don't care while I'm listening. David Bowie moans in my ears when I read adventure stories, the bright wistful noise of Best Coast for romances, Robert Johnson and Sunny War, twangy and discordant, set the mood for general fiction. On tumblr bright colors scroll endlessly past my eyes, and my music is set to shuffle. I live temporarily suspended in a world of light and sound.
My mother disapproves of tumblr. That's not true, she has no idea what it is. She disapproves of comic books, and pornography. She disapproves of a lot of things. She sleeps more soundly than she used to, or maybe she's just more tired.
The key to staying awake at night is distraction. Give yourself plenty of things tinfoil and plenty of stimulus. If you can talk to someone, do so. It gives you incentive to stay awake. Make yourself ccomfortable, but not too comfortable. Cold is especially conducive to alertness. Eat, especially sweet things. Drink, but not of anything heavy. Water will do.
When I was a child I did childish things, and I have cast many of them off. I keep this habit. It comforts and sustains. I sleep. And wake.
ROSE: Sup.
-Homestuck
When I was a child I watched Inuyasha on Adult Swim. It came on from midnight to two a.m., and I had to keep myself awake until it came on if I wanted to watch it. I would put my headphones on and sit close to the screen as it cast a gentle glow over my bed, listen to the babble of the television, and shiver in the night air.
Now I'm a teenager, and I have an iPhone. This makes illicit nighttime television watching much easier. My headphones are nicer, more comfortable and with better sound. I lay in bed, wrapped in soft, warm blankets, smelling tea from a cup left in my room. I drink chai with almond milk, which is sweeter than the real thing, and when I bake cookies I dip them in it. The smell and taste are both sweet, sugary and milky. Moonlight filters in through the window silvery and delicate, I'm sure, but it's drowned in the bright yellowy glow of the street lamps. If I let my eyes adjust I could see by it, but I never take them away from the light of my phone.
I watch episodes of Avatar: the Last Airbender and Supernatural. My friend Nathan is watching Digimon again, season by season, so I check that out. It's as good as I remember, the characters vibrant and the story enthralling. My headphones press on my ears for so long that when I take them off they're sore, but I don't care while I'm listening. David Bowie moans in my ears when I read adventure stories, the bright wistful noise of Best Coast for romances, Robert Johnson and Sunny War, twangy and discordant, set the mood for general fiction. On tumblr bright colors scroll endlessly past my eyes, and my music is set to shuffle. I live temporarily suspended in a world of light and sound.
My mother disapproves of tumblr. That's not true, she has no idea what it is. She disapproves of comic books, and pornography. She disapproves of a lot of things. She sleeps more soundly than she used to, or maybe she's just more tired.
The key to staying awake at night is distraction. Give yourself plenty of things tinfoil and plenty of stimulus. If you can talk to someone, do so. It gives you incentive to stay awake. Make yourself ccomfortable, but not too comfortable. Cold is especially conducive to alertness. Eat, especially sweet things. Drink, but not of anything heavy. Water will do.
When I was a child I did childish things, and I have cast many of them off. I keep this habit. It comforts and sustains. I sleep. And wake.