The Endless March of Midnight

Five vignettes on sleep and sleeplessness

Photo by Shane on Unsplash

When I was a child, I had what amounted to a very minor superpower: An all-natural alarm clock. I could decide to wake up any time I wanted, and I would. It wasn’t mechanically precise, of course, but for my purposes it did the trick.

As with many children, I wished to stay up late but I wasn’t allowed to do this, so…