When he found a certain place, he stopped for the night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. Genesis 28:11
This is really referring to Jacob, but it remined me of recently traveling and trying to go to sleep. I put my hotel pillow, not a stone, under my head, and tried to drift off to sleep. I think I did get some sleep, at first, but then, my mind was filled with many thoughts.
I tried to go to sleep, but it just seemed that my mind just kept going and going. Unfortunately, this is one of the side effects of my using artificial sweeteners. I knew that before I had taken a big piece of strawberry shortcake sweetened with artificial sweeteners. At the moment I ate this decadent sugar-free desert, I didn't want to think about how the artificial sweeteners [that] I had used to make this cake would affect me.
It has started an irregular sleep pattern for me. This last week, I keep going to sleep, but I'm waking up and staying awake for a couple hours before getting back to sleep. Then, I'm overtired in the middle of the day, doze off, but when I go to bed, I sleep for a while, but wake up and can't go back to sleep for a couple of hours. I'm prayerfully trying to return back to a normal sleeping pattern. The sugar-free strawberry shortcake really wasn't worth it, although I thought it was when I was eating it!
