Insomnia

Writing this blog at around 2 in the morning, the K.L. Sehgal lullaby flashes upon my inward ears...soja raajkumari soja....the ears hear it,the mind refuses to register it and the eyes, the Mangel Pandey of the group is obviously upto what it does best..yup, refuse to shut down,what else :(

Insomnia...I believe is more of a universal disease now...Lady Macbeths roam round recklessly and not-so-recklessly en todas partes. But then she had a reason to somnambulate...or did she?What about our conscientious Macbeth who "lack[ed] the season of all natures...sleep"...why didn't he somnambulate?Is it then a female preoccupation...not sleeping or tossing about restlessly...Trying to satisfy my undying urge to unearth a possible psychological malady peculiar to women,this is what I came across on the good ol' Google :))

You toss. . . You roll over on your stomach, twist around to your back, slide a half-turn onto your side. ...You're in the grips of insomnia, a problem that haunts women twice as often as it does men...(http://www.mothernature.com/Library/Bookshelf/Books/62/55.cfm)

and again...

Women are twice as likely to suffer from insomnia than men. Some research suggests that certain social factors, such as being unemployed or divorced, are related to poor sleep and increase the risk of insomnia in women(http://www.4woman.gov/faq/insomnia.htm)

Now finding an answer to why women acquire insomnia more and men don't is an issue I'd love to take up but another day...I guess my insomniac vigil for today has come to a fortunate end :))