3:41 am

It's 3:41am on a Tuesday morning and I can't sleep.


I sometimes know when it's coming -- what nights I will sleep because I am exhausted, but if that sleep is interrupted for any reason that the likelihood of getting back to sleep is slim to none.  Usually it's on nights where I start thinking about things that need to be done.  I go through my checklist of things that need doing and I check off things that I've done and I go through the things that are next on the list.  The trouble is that there aren't a lot of things you can do at 3:41 in the morning.  You can read, I guess.  You can study, sure.  Or you can type aimlessly on your blog.


  Why is it that we always seem to think of really important things at 3:30 in the morning?  Or, seemingly important things, I should say.  It should work to wake up, write a note to yourself to accomplish something that needs doing in the waking hours, then lie back down and go to sleep, right?  It never works that way, though.


  I wonder if there is a way to quantify the weight of human thought.


  You know how people talk sometimes about their thoughts being heavy or being weighed down by their thoughts, or of being uplifted by or carried by their thoughts?  I wonder if there is a way to physically measure the process of human cognition... And, if so, would there also be a way to measure the way thought impacts the physical world?  I'll have to look into that one...  Tomorrow...  If I can get back to sleep.