tiredness in the eyes

how can you tell when you’re tired?

for me, it’s when my eyes have trouble blinking.
for many people, they would say “they can’t keep
their eyes open as easily”, but mine is actually
feeling a slowness in bringing the eyelids together.

i think it has something to do with staring at
computer screens basically all day. probably burning
my eyeballs doing that shit or something.

i’ve also been told hunger is a good sign
that you’re entering a position of choice:
either sleep to ignore the hunger, or eat to
relieve the hunger (but in turn, stay awake longer).

we know more about neurotransmitters in terms of
sleep science to accept that reduced idea as reality,
but it was neat when i had first learned of it to think,
when i got a midnight craving, that it was actually my body
trying to send signals for “sleep”.

thanks for reading today’s post.
i’m gonna go do that now. sleep.