“I had a very disturbed sleep last night”

After joining Imbuent, the day has transformed into the night and the night becomes day. No, this is no magical story, but rather a pathetic sleeping disorder I have developed over the past two months. Soporific days and restless nights took over my already unsettled life. The problem is that though we have rented out an AC for the summer. I don’t sleep inside the room because I ended up waking almost every day with a sore throat. So I sleep in the living room, and roll all over the floor, throughout the night and wake up groggy and end up catching snatches of sleep for the rest of the day. That is if I manage to put myself to sleep at all before 2am.

Last night, it rained. Which was romantic and all that, but it shot up the temperature making our house an ideal place to open a hot sauna. While lying on the bed, I remembered Mr. Walia (HR of my company) once telling me of a certain breathing technique that helped you to relax and go to sleep with ease. I tried in vain to remember the sequence. ‘Roomie-who-does-not-want-a-mention-in-my-blog’, had slept off in the living room while watching TV and was now ‘snoring’. Instead of getting annoyed, I told myself to relax and try and learn a thing or two from her on how to sleep like ‘that’.

And then it suddenly hit me. If I could repeat the same sequence as her, then I could also possibly fall asleep. I lied down on the floor, stretched and relaxed my muscles, took a deep breath in, exhaled, closed my eyes and observed her snoring rhythm. It was an odd, sort of miscalculated ‘3-1-4-2’. But I followed it anyway and breathed for about 50 counts, before realizing that I was sitting up and straining myself to hear her because she had turned over to face the wall. I rolled all over the floor once again last night. In the morning, when I finally gave up on trying sleeping, the aforementioned ‘roomie’ woke up and moaned: “I had a very disturbed sleep last night”