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your brain refusing to read the bedtime story it wrote itself.
means the persistent inability to fall asleep or stay asleep, even when you're exhausted and want nothing more.
from Straight from Latin: in- ("not") plus somnus ("sleep"), the same root that gave us somnolent and the god Somnus, the Roman personification of sleep. So literally, "not-sleep" — a tidy little negation that has kept humans staring at ceilings for centuries.
- fatal kind
- A rare genetic insomnia kills by erasing sleep entirely
- record holder
- Longest documented wakefulness: 11 straight days, 1964
- clock blame
- Light from screens convinces your brain it's noon
- counting sheep
- Studies show it actually delays sleep, not helps
- the paradox
- Trying harder to sleep keeps you more awake
for instance
fatal familial insomnia — genetic prion disease discovered in 1984, causes progressive insomnia leading to death within months