Getting high the nocturnal way.

One doesn't always need to resort to weed or grass to get high. At least i don't. Deprive yourself of sleep for two to three days and you'll know what I am talking about. It feels so murky and yet limpid like a glass of plain water.

When I get high on sleep (or better put, on the absence of it), I behave strangely. Getting into the cosy bed is the first thing that comes in mind, (and its the every second thought that keeps coming in mind.) But I choose to elongate the ecstasy of thinking about hugging the slumber hottie finally. What reason does it serve? Have got no idea.

I know what I am doing, but why I am doing that gets beyond my thinking powers. When I turn my head, it feels as if a spring has been fitted in my neck, and it vibrates. The respiration rate hits the bedrock, and the whole body goes into some kind of inertial state.

With eyes burning near the lashes and shoulders dropping down like the fallen sails of a conquered ship, I switch into selective listening. My wingmate is yelling, but I don't give a damn to him. Even if I want to, I can't coz' he's talkin gibberish. I become totally dumb, but can hear my thoughts echoing loudly in my brain. It feels as if half of the brain has been thrown off, coz it feels lighter up there. The reaction time gets sluggish, and so does my typing speed. The extremities of the body start failing to make their presence felt. Slowly the head starts swinging. Side to side, to and fro motion. I try to keep my head still.

But it swings from the inside. May be its the pendulum of the internal body clock which is swinging. I stop thinking after some time. The world stops mattering then. No peer, no profs, no hollow hearted crushes anywhere near. I feel trance. Eternal peace. And then the eyelids start betraying. I know I can delay being high for some more strange minutes, but now my own guards have given up. How can a warrior keep fighting when his own horse choses to betray him? Then the slender curtains fall. Slowly, but surely.

After that? Hangover.
I wake up.


Alok.