Sleeping pills, pain pills and Monster Drinks

I’m pretty sure I have insomnia. I just have this alarm clock in my head that makes me rise sometime between 4 and 5 am nearly every morning. Sometimes I might stay up late to watch a movie and sleep in late the next day, but most times, I’m in bed by 10, maybe 10:30 and I rise before 5. I try to keep it consistent.

A part of my “sleepless” comes from anxiety about waking up late. I’m hard of hearing and I sleep without my hearing aid. I’ve tried alarm clocks but I found that I could not rely upon them. And since I’m a morning person from birth, I just…