For the Birds--Ahh!

I live on the fourth floor of an apartment complex. This would lead one to believe that I am above the trees and therefore out of line of the birds all night mating song. Let me tell you that this is not true. I am so exhausted as I have not been able to have uninterrupted sleep all week (and probably for a few weeks). I so want to go home and just sleep for days. Even though the trees don’t reach my apartment I have a ledge just outside my bedroom window (which is three really large floor to ceiling windows). This one particular bird (I’m sure it’s just one bird that is torturing me. I think it has a person vendetta or it’s in love with me.) sits out there and sings all night long—very loudly! It’s way up there so nothing scares it away. I would have to figure out how to take off the screen to get it to leave and the ledge goes out further than the windows so it can be off to the side—not viewable, but very loud! Plus I figured if I shewed it away it would just come back as for some reason it really likes this particular perch.

Last night the bird was even in my dreams. In the dream I was in some bed – not my real home--I got out of bed and started shaking the tree the bird was in. The bird still wouldn’t leave or stop singing. I kept shaking the branch, but it wasn’t working. At some point I woke up and realized the bird hadn’t stopped because the bird was the real bird outside my window. Ahhh!

I didn’t even go to the gym this morning (and I haven’t missed this class in four months) because I was so exhausted because this bird kept me awake most of the night. It finally dawned on me this morning that I need to get my fan out because that will create white noise and hopefully dampen the bird noise. If I don’t get some good sleep soon I’m going to be in trouble. I’m getting desperate!

Speaking of dreams (not the annoying bird), I had a really good dream last night that had these gorgeous/enormous flowers in the dream. These flowers do not exist here, but they were spectacular. I wish I was an artist so I could draw them.

The other day I had a dream about the gym. I woke up (really all night because of the bird and I was really hot—our weather had gone from the 50’s to the 80’s) and debated whether I should go to the gym or not because I was just so tired. I fell back asleep and dreamed I was at the gym working out and I was really hot. I looked down and saw that I had put on like seven pairs of pants. In my dream, I thought I must have been sleep walking when I got dressed (in real life when I have slept walked I have put on bizarre outfits). I thought that was so funny that I had a dream about sleep walking.

P.S. I wrote this on post on Thursday. I finally took a wonderful sleeping pill and turned on a fan. I slept for ten wonderful hours. Should have done it the next night too!