People are no longer SLEEPING

Adan Men
18 min readJan 20, 2024

I first noticed it in my wife, the dim light projecting from her screen, it was enough to illuminate our small bedroom, the light causing me to wake up; she told me that she just couldn’t sleep. We have always been a couple of routine, I wake up in the morning for work and she gets up along side me; preparing my coffee and lunch for the day. When I get home, it’s always the same, we eat dinner, talk about our day and then watch a little T.V. before heading off to bed. Like clock work by 9:15pm her soft breathing would flutter in the air, a sound that has always comfort me and it would only be mere minutes before I join her in the realm of slumber. It was very basic but it was us, a routine of an old married couple something I found bliss in, so when my wife first starting suffering from insomnia I didn’t think much about it; I figured like all things it would pass.

After about week it was clear her insomnia was not going away, in fact, it was getting worse; I would wake up to the sound of her cleaning the house —she hoped that physical work would make her tired but it didn’t. Instead the noise only frustrated me, usually I would snap at her telling her that I needed my rest, though I would feel bad after the moment understanding it wasn’t her fault. Like any one would we started off simple, I bought her some melatonin gummies but all it ever did was make her stomach hurt, she tried hot tea…

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Adan Men
Adan Men

Written by Adan Men

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