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(text-style: "buoy") [Tossing and turning], you can't fall (text-color: "black")[[[asleep |asleep]]] because
[[you drank coffee after 3pm again]]
[[you forgot to floss your teeth]]
Sweet, savory, decadent bean juice. Is it even worth the side effects? Coffee doesn't perk you up like it used to but you can't seem to stop drinking it...
That reminds you about what they say about coffee [[staining teeth]]
But wait! You [[remember...]]
Your dentist said flossing is vital given the state of your teeth last visit. Build up is bad and now you feel guilty.
[[dentists]] are hard to please,
[[you get up and rush to the bathroom]]Before exiting your room, you take
<img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/phone%20or%20bottle%20.png?raw=true"
width="800"
height="400" />
[[your phone]]
[[your waterbottle]]
Using your phone as a flashlight, you navigate to the bathroom.
[[grab floss]]
[[toilet]]You head to the kitchen to fill up your water bottle, through the (text-color: "black")[dark] hallways. (click: "dark")[You literally can't see anything and rely on your memory of the house to venture forward]. [[Touch the fridge... |Kitchen]].
~(text-style: "sway")+(text-color: "gray")[The wind drifts eerily through empty branches outside] ~ You procede to floss your teeth, it's the free Crest floss the dentist gave you.
[[return to bed]]
[[wash face]]
Sitting on the toilet, you open your phone. (heck germs!!)
<img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/toilettext.jpeg?raw=true"
width="300"
height="400" />
[[instagram]]
[[messages]]Scrolling through instragram you get lost in:
<img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/scrollphone.gif?raw=true"
width="300"
height="300" />
(set: $topics to (a: "Cat", "Food", "Insane exercise"))
(cycling-link: bind $chosentopic, ...$topics) videos
(text-style: "blink")[[tap-tap]]Earlier you missed a text from your (text-color: "#ED77B4")[mom]. (click: "mom") [You haven't heard from her in a while, and you miss her.]
Your (text-color: "#ED77B4")[friend] also texted! (click: "friend") [You don't get to see eachother often, and they're always up to cool things!]
[[Mom's text |Open mom's]]
[[Friend's text |Open friend's]]
You return to bed and drift off into dreamland.
(text-style: "rumble")[ZZZZZZ]
<img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/driftoff2.jpg?raw=true"
width="400"
height="400" />Ahhhhh warm water washes away the days worries...
<img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/washingface.jpeg?raw=true"
width="400"
height="300" />
after patting clean with a towel you decide to [[return to bed]] Your mother says: (font: "Times New Roman")[I miss tucking you in as a kiddo! If you didn't live so far I'd still give you beddtime hugs and I'm always wishing you the best sleep. Don't be a stranger 😘 xoxo"]
This warms your heart ❤
[[return to bed]] (font: "Times New Roman") ["HEY!!!! I know this is last minute, but there's gonna be a party tomorrow night and you will LOVE it! Please lmk if you can join 🔥"]
Your stomach flutters
Text back (font: "Times New Roman") [ [["Yes! :) "]] / [["No :( ]] ]<center > <img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/dentalfear.jpeg?raw=true"> </center>
You can't seem to get the dentist out of your mind! If only you'd flossed, then you could have slept peacefully.
You lie in bed, eyes wide open, trying to think your way out of your worries.
There ain't no rest for the wicked.
[[Try again?]] While recounting silly phrases, your eyes feel heavy and you fall asleep like a log....
<center > <img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/countingsheep.jpeg?raw=true"> </center>That was a decaf coffee!! So what's really keeping you up?
Your cats are playing, they sound like [[THEY had coffee]]
But you can't overlook the fact, that above all, it has to do with [[noodles]]
You usually do all you can for dental hygiene! Damn that "coffee staining teeth" saying.
[[dentists]] are hard to please
you contemplate [[colloquial phrases]]
Can cats have coffee??
You start googling about [[cats]]. <img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/sleephygiene.jpeg?raw=true"
width="300"
height="300" />
You can't fall asleep because of NOODLES! You decide to do your nightly journal ritual about noodles! [[What type of noodles...?|flarf noodles]]
(text-style: "Rumble") [[Yaaaaaaawn!]](text-style: "fade-in-out") [Thinking about sleep knocks you right out]
<center > <img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/sleephygiene.jpeg?raw=true"> </center>Ahh what do they say about sleep?
(set: $topics to (a: "Counting sheep helps you fall asleep", "Hit the hay", "Dreams are like movies"))
(cycling-link: bind $chosentopic, ...$topics)
[[rest]]
And you have an upcoming dental surgery. The idea of it makes your skin crawl, and you activley become more [[awake]]. You wish full-heartedly that you could go, but you simply can't due to (set: $topics to (a: "working.", "social anxiety has been bad.", "couldn't tell ya! not the vibe.")) (cycling-link: bind $chosentopic, ...$topics)
Time to [[go to bed |okay sleep]]. <center > <img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/badsleep.jpeg?raw=true"> </center>
As you snuggle back under the covers, you realize you totally forgot to floss! Plus, you feel less rested after scrolling. (text-style: "blur") [The sun burns my eyes, and I [[rollover]] for a moments more of rest.] (transition: "blur") ["When did I even fall asleep? Today feels completely different."] You gain clarity looking back at last night's journey to [[sleep |Try again?]](if: $chosentopic is "Counting sheep helps you fall asleep")
[The sheep ain't gonna count themselves!
I begin to feel [[sleepy]] ]
(else-if: $chosentopic is "Hit the hay")
[What did they hay do to deserve being hit!?
I begin to feel [[sleepy]] ]
(else-if: $chosentopic is "Dreams are like movies")
[Time to watch some eyelid movies!
I begin to feel [[sleepy]] ]
(if: $chosentopic is "Cat")
[You feel optimistic after watching cat videos.
Back to [[bed]] ]
(else-if: $chosentopic is "Food")
[Seeing all this food makes you hungry! And reminds you that you haven't flossed.
[[grab floss]] ]
(else-if: $chosentopic is "Insane exercise")
[It's too late to be watching exercise videos, and they stir something inside of you... something complicated.
Time to trudge off to [[bed |trudge]] ]After curling up in bed, like a cat, you realize you forgot to floss -that's okay though, after all, cats don't floss and they're not CATastrophizing about it!
Speaking of, your cats sense your comfort and join you in bed. (text-style: "blur")[Their snuggling and (text-style: "rumble")[purring] lulls you to sleep.]
<center > <img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/catcuddles.gif?raw=true"> </center>Of course you're going!!!
And the only way you can guarentee to survive til tomorrow night is with good sleep tonight! (click: "survive")[It's harder to stay up late these days...]
Time to [[return to bed]] . <img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/sleepmind.jpeg?raw=true"
width="500"
height="300" />
Sleep doesn't come easy after the emotional conflict of turning down a party invitation. You don't know how long it takes to fall asleep, but eventually you (text-style: "blurrier")[stop thinking and drift off.] COLD. METAL. This is the fridge. You feel for the water dispenser, your eyes still haven't adjusted to the [[dark]].
You tell yourself to chill out, all the scary movies that you've filled your head with are MOVIES. Get a [[grip]].
You grip onto your water bottle and take a few slow breaths. Your heart rate begins to cool down. You head
[[to the bathroom -- still gotta floss after all! |grab floss]]
[[quickly back to your bedroom! It's too dark to make it to the bathroom! |spooky path]] You should have gone to bed a while ago [[>>]] Paranoid, you watch the shadows for any sudden (text-style: "rumble")[[movements]].
(text-color: "black")+(text-style: "bold")+(text-style: "rumble")[CReeeaaAAAkkkKKKkK]
Your heart skips a beat -- nobody else is home. You are [[alone]], aren't you? Something moves in the [[shadows]]. Your cat jumps out from behind a curtain, waiting to ambush you! In all your fear, you forgot about that rascal.
<img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/sneakycat.jpeg?raw=true"
width="300"
height="400" />
You scoop up the culprit of creepiness, and head off to [[bed| with cat]]. As you lay in bed, you ponder how the real horrors of the world aren't in the shadows these days... its day to day life, politics, external catastrophes you can't touch.
<img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/world.jpg?raw=true"
width="400"
height="300" />
Your cat nuzzles your hand asking to go under the covers, and you allow yourself rest. The day(text-style: "blur")[fades away ] ... <center > <img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/34d74c52e56f8d3b08b2cc2775914b53.gif?raw=true"> </center>
(char-style: via (t8n-delay:pos*60)+(t8n:'dissolve'))[A slender humanoid figure slides towards [[you]].](char-style: via (t8n-delay:pos*50)+(t8n:'dissolve'))+(text-style: "rumble")[BRIGHT. DRILLING. SHRILLING. ZAP!!!! GARGLES. You can't make out any words----but it's [[BRIGHT]].]The sun is so (text-style: "shudder")+(text-color: "yellow")[bright.](click: "bright")[BRIGHT! Something else was bright recently, but you can't remember quite what...]
<img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/toobright.jpeg?raw=true"
width="400"
height="300" />
You can't wait to get out of the house and around other people. Last night's sleep has you feeling w r o n g. Your mouth is so d r y. (click:"d r y")+(text-color: "purple")[You reach for your water bottle, but it isn't where you usually keep it... ]
[[>> |>>>]]
You wonder why you feel so tired after sleeping??
[[Try to remember last night? |Try again?]]
Continue with day.(click: "Continue")[The past is the past. Time to tackle the day!]Ahhh sweet cat videos! This is your favorite way to [[end the night]] Your cats got all the zoomies out, and pounce onto the bed to join you. One of them nuzzles the phone straight out of your hand and you thank them for doing so.
<img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/sleepycat.jpeg?raw=true"
width="300"
height="400" />
You wish you could share your (text-color: "grey")[favorite] things(click: "favorite")[, like coffee!] But at least you get to (text-style: "blur")[dream together.]
[[Buttered,]]
[[pepper,]]
[[parmesan]]
<center > <img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/noodlesleep.jpeg?raw=true"> </center>
Irrevocably salty, carbhohydrates,
cheese.
Simple as you please.
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[[Goodnight noodles]] Avoid before bedtime!
Upgrade with peppers,
keeps you (text-style: "rumble")[[up.]]
<center > <img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/pepper.jpeg?raw=true"> </center>
But, its bed time.
[[Goodnight noodles]]
Heavy and bloated -
2 hours of noodles!
Who needs sleep, we're eating noodles!
[[Goodnight noodles]]
<center > <img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/parm.jpeg?raw=true"> </center>Too much spice is nice! But not for sleep....
[[How could the night have gone better? |Try again?]] Goodnight noodles.
(click: "noodles")+(char-style: via (t8n-delay:pos*60)+(t8n:'dissolve'))[Your poetry is as delicous as pasta and filling too. You feel satisfied with your writing and decide to call it a night -- you'll have oodles of fun tomorrow and probably cook pasta too!
You fall asleep dreaming of all the pasta-bilities.]
<img src="https://github.com/hopelandberg/Sleepy/blob/main/Assets/goodnightnoodles.png?raw=true"
width="400"
height="400" />