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My cell phone, iPod, and laptop are right by side. I must be ready to head out the door to class or something, right? No, I’m going to bed. My cell phone is my alarm, my iPod helps me fall asleep, and my laptop aids my recent bouts of insomnia plus it’s been cold enough in our apartment that I’ve been writing papers under the covers. I have been thinking about this phenomenon recently; when I did it become that I need three modern devices to get to sleep? I know the iPod inched its way in first. But lately I have been waking up in the middle of the night, my body wrapped in white cord, debating the sanity of my inability to fall asleep solely while listening to Joy Division, Aimee Mann, Norah Jones, and Johnny Cash. Ditched the alarm clock for the cell phone, in of those large-scale cleaning moments when I realized that both had the same function but one also made phone calls. I find myself left clueless as to how modern technology has become a necessary part of one of the least technologically advanced parts of my life: sleep.
Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon? Find yourself suddenly sharing your bed with an iPhone or a Macbook, wondering how it got there…you’re not alone.
