You know how you do something half your life and believe it to be normal, till a not-so-subtle eye opening event shoves you under ice-cold-showers of realization, and then it all starts coming together, a bit too smoothly, now you can't help but question if you weren't avoiding the "enlightenment" on purpose?

Well, I have never slept continuously for an hour. My mind is a radical mathematician who believes that two perfect halves equals one, so why settle for one when you can have two.

Except, Oliver's curse makes insatiaety a thing, so two becomes four, and four, eight…. till my sleeping schedule begins to look like the appeal history of a bad lawyer's case.

You can't call it insomnia because I get to sleep after all. The irony is how my body needs breaks in between sleep.

Exactly fifteen minutes into my sleep, I startle awake. You'd think I would close my eyes and head back into the snoring spree., but No!

I reach for my water bottle, headsets and my laptop, I have tried a few hundred times enough to know that my body is incapable of going back to sleep , 10 minutes after it wakes. so I while away time till round two kicks my head around, a dozing cue.

When Chardonnay came visiting during the school holidays, I was looking forward to non-stop chatting during our ten-minute sleep breaks. If not talking, wherever the tide of unrest would take us.

I mean, big bummer if She preferred to stay silent, but at least, the knowledge that there was another twelve year old in the room -awake, was better than flitting shadows and silly nocturnal insects, pacing their chirping to spook you.

Chardonnay Ama Frimpong, slept for 11 hours, 47 minutes, 51.3 seconds.

She didn't startle awake. Not one time.

Not when I "mistakenly" coughed too loudly or kicked my metallic water bottle against the foot of the bed, resulting in a loud clang that made our dog, Altair, bark for 2 minutes straight. Chardonnay still didn't stir.

Now, I know breaks in between sleep is quite abnormal, but I wonder, if sleep like Chardonnay sleeps, isn't a curse either?