Can You Dream Without Sleeping?

Why does it seem like the best time for me to write is in the middle of the night, when I know that I should be sleeping instead? But for some inexplicable reason, I run right past exhaustion and stumble what feels like head first straight into insomnia. Again. I lay down, and close my eyes, listening to my boyfriends snores and the cheesey background music of One Tree Hill, but yet a million ideas and thoughts run rapidly through my head. And of course, they are the kinds of ideas that need to be written down, before I forget them when the early hours stroll through and my alarm clock blares in the air. It seems like my big dreams, and goals, and plans flutter through my head only after midnight. It's now that I feel the need to find the perfect pair of sneakers (because I'm not sure spider monkey feet are very me, sorry darlin) online. It's now that I find the time to search through my student loan options in order to satisfy my UMaine bill, to get my transcript for UMF. And of course I know that people say that there is "no better time than now to start", but I think I could find a good number of better times. See there is a small part of my brain telling me that there is no better time than now to end the day and get some rest. But I figure the best way to get myself to relax enough to sleep is to accept what my mind is telling me. To make progress on these dreams and goals and plans, so that I don't have them doing cartwheels through my head to that space right behind my eyelids but before my eyes. So I scan through ebay and footlocker, I get some writing done, and I download a P90X onto my computer for a rough and tough yoga session before work tomorrow. Because I can do all of this. I can get the whole college thing figured out and completed. I can lose the weight that has taken over my pride for so long and I can turn myself into someone that I would want my daughter to be like, and my mother to be proud of. And I can get the sleep required so that I am strong enough to not only do it all, but prove everyone else wrong in the process. I mean, after all....