My New Year's Resolution: I will write something every single day and post it for everyone to see.
#2: This is what happens when you lie down
It comes over you with very little in the way of warning. Occasionally you might get yawn or a drooping of the eyelids, but that's only if you're lucky. Sometimes all it takes is a blink and suddenly it's a few hours later or the next day completely.
This process can definitely cause problems both subtle and obvious.
For one thing, if you happen to wear some sort of corrective lenses, there are bound to be some issues after falling asleep with them on. If you wear glasses you'll either have lenses that are nothing but smudges, or worst-case scenario you'll have two separate lenses entirely. Granted, if you wear contacts the risks escalate to urban-legend status. Your contacts might become dislodged from your eyes and get stuck in your ocular cavities.
I've learned that it's a pretty good idea to take off your watch before going to sleep, especially if your watch is made mostly of metal or is unnecessarily ostentatious. Not removing your watch can result in either interesting pillow wrinkles or mysterious scratches on your face.
By far the worst possible problems caused by a random act of sleep is the rest of the world you left awake. Dates are missed, papers are unwritten and showers are skipped, among other things.
It takes a lot to force your body to take the sleep it needs from you. If this happens you must've been doing something other than sleep for a while. Whatever it is that was so busy or important that you avoided the sleep the first time around, your body will get what it needs eventually, one way or another.
Unless you're an insomniac ... in which case I've lost your interest and understanding back at the first sentence.
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