Insomnia… if you can call it that?

I will start with a quote from one of my favorite movies Fight Club. “When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep... and you're never really awake.” I think I might have insomnia, but I’m not sure because I don’t know enough about it. Sometimes I’ll try to go to sleep at a decent time and I cannot get to sleep no matter how hard I try or how tired I am. It’s really strange though because it only happens while I’m at Virginia Tech. I’m not sure if it’s the beds or the rooms or the whole “college” attitude but it’s very difficult for me to catch Z’s. However, while I’m at home I can sleep for 12 hours straight with no problem. But at school I can barely get 5 hours of sleep at a time without waking up. Sometimes though, it helps me out a lot because I will be restless in the early hours in the morning and I will decide to go study or do homework instead of wasting time. There are no distractions that late at night which is great. It feels sort of weird knowing that your most productive hours during the day besides being in class are between one and three in the morning. Even facebook is a useless distraction at that hour because there is nobody online to talk too. During the day I feel fine most of the time and I’m rarely ever tired (excluding the few minutes after I wake up and before I get in the shower. I think everyone feels like a zombie that early in the morning). However, I am slightly worried about the possibility of health repercussions of not sleeping well, but I’m the type of person that lives in the present so I’ll worry about that later. Also, one of the coolest parts of sleeping lightly is I can remember my dreams a lot better. For instance, last night I went to China, saw The Who in concert and they played a Michael Jackson song and somewhere in that mess there was some sort of physicist or magician doing tricks with magnetic fields and stuff. It was really weird, but awesome.