Hibernation : A state of inactivity and metabolic depression in animals during winter
I may not be an animal, and God knows we don't have winter here. But, The former part may be correct.
As you know, I'm currently in Psychiatry posting. This posting is seriously as idle as JKM, prolly worse I think. All I do is sleep in my room, watch movies, and well, do whatever I want. I've been sleeping so much to a point where I'm actually BORED of sleeping! Can you believe that?? I have never met anyone that can get bored of sleeping. But, I am. It's boring. It makes your body weak, and not only do you oversleep, you tend to want MORE sleep afterwards. It's not like food, where you get hungry or you're craving for something different. When you give in to that temptation, you might not crave for it anymore.
But that rule doesn't apply to sleep. When you sleep a lot, you won't get 'full'. You'll want even MORE sleep. That's the dangerous part. When one becomes too idle, they get idler (is this even a word?).
Therefore, there's this principle of mine where I tell myself, If i'ma need my energy to get up and go...I should only sleep for 4 hours or less. THIS is enough sleep for me to feel fresh!
If I sleep for 6 or more hours, my hibernation starts. Yup, as awful as it sounds that's what I've been doing for the past 8 weeks in Psychiatry.
I've been doing a lot of thinking (prolly in my sleep too!), I think this is planned by my subconscious mind. It's telling me to SLEEP all I want right now, so when I get my A** in Triad posting in 2 weeks time, I won't want so much sleep anymore and I can stay up, go to the wards, go to my study groups and keep myself busy. Coz from what I've heard Triad posting is pretty busy. Good ol' subconscious brain =)
It's happened before. My body is just too extreme. During my O&G posting, I was really in tip top condition. Went to the wards early in the morning, went again late at night, often excited for on-calls. Weird huh. Then, 10 weeks later...I was the complete opposite for Surgery posting. I slept a lot, didn't follow ward rounds much, well, did pretty much like what I'm doing right now.
Yup. so I'm expecting a really rajin student for my next posting. Triad, HERE I COME!
Owh, btw... PERHENTIAN!! HERE I COME FIRST!!! weeeee! Can't wait to feel the ocean breeze, white sand between my toes and a perfect tan *wink*
.l e n a washed the bathroom and toilet today coz she had nothing better to do, yay.
1 comment:
arent u supposed to study a case or two over there in the psych ward?
ive been there once, to accompany an old friend for her psych evaluation.
gotta hand it to ya, the med studs r like robots, purely analytical, asking questions without the slightest concern of the patient's expression.
so i reckon sleepin's a hell lot better. at least, even if u sleep a lot, u'd still be humane.. i mean human. :P
ps : cant u play games on ur iphone to kill time?
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