When it comes to sleeping, I don’t have it easy.
It’s been this way since I was a child, where the slightest things will keep me away.
I suffered from insomnia most of the time. Anything can prevent me from going to sleep, whether it be my mood, stress, sound, sight or sleeping position. If I am lucky enough to finally doze off, and something wakes me up, it is almost impossible to fall back asleep. Although it sounds awful, I have mostly grown used to this, and as long as I have the perfect conditions for my sleep, I don’t have as many issues. However, I have been restless the last few nights. My air conditioning system is a central A/C, and part of the unit is outside of my home. To be specific it is right outside my window. I usually don’t have the air conditioner on at night because of this, but due to the really hot weather, I started keeping it on. I can mostly tolerate the noise, but for the past couple of nights, I kept hearing this metallic clang and it’s keeping me away. I finally had a HVAC specialist come over to inspect the problem so I can sleep again, and the A/C worker pulled out a child’s toy from the machine. I asked my son, and he admitted he dropped the toy in the machine to see what would happen and didn’t tell me because he didn’t want to get in trouble. Every time the air conditioner would turn on the blades would be hitting the toy causing the noise. Once it was removed the HVAC device sounded like normal.