I have a strong history
with sleep. I can sleep through anything- power outages, rock concerts,
nightmares, loud wedding music, ringing phones, earthquakes, heartbreaks,
neighbors audibly performing their procreation duties, plane takeoffs,
anything. Doesn't mean I sleep all day, just that when I got to sleep, I got to
sleep. This is the biggest reason I do not go for evening movie shows. I have
slept through 300, and I have slept through Harry Potter (the only exception
being Dilwale, it was so bad, I could just not fall asleep). People complain of
being unable to sleep in flights, but I often doze off even before the plane
has taken off. There are few occasions when I have actually had trouble falling
asleep. Those are handful, and I clearly remember most of them.
But today, I set a new
record. People who know me well also know my frequent tryst with the dentist,
and how often I have been visiting one (actually, two) for the past year. This
smile does come at a huge maintenance cost. I am mortally afraid of dentists.
Who isn't? However, I fell asleep at the dentist's today, in the middle of
another procedure. I am recovering from jet lag and it was my sleep time in
Kolkata. So sometime while lying on my back, blankly staring at the blinding
lights and listening to the music of a drilling machine with my jaws propped
open like an alligator's, I fell asleep. This is so unbelievable, it's not even
funny. It's a different story that I'm sleepless now. The anesthesia has worn
off. Forget sleep, I am close to forgetting my baaper naam (father's name)
right now.
sunshine
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