Imagine lying in bed at 3 AM, eyes wide open, trapped in an endless staring contest with your ceiling—a contest you're desperately losing—counting sheep that have long since joined a labor union demanding overtime pay. Your insomnia, always punctual, cheerfully kicks off its nightly shift while your mind replays highlights of your life's greatest humiliations, featuring such timeless classics on a high-definition loop, like that time you waved back at someone who was actually waving to the person behind you or when you called your teacher “mom”. Sleep, it seems, has ghosted you more brutally than your high school crush. 

Let’s be honest. If you’re reading this, chances are that last night’s attempt at “falling asleep” felt more like participating in a competition of overthinking. As you lay in bed, you weren’t exactly instantly whisked away to a world of blissful dreams where you rode unicorns on clouds made of marshmallows. No, you were probably wide awake replaying that awkward thing you said in third grade. Maybe you contemplated existential anxieties or debated the morality of dropkicking a snoring partner. And then, of course, just as you finally started to drift off, your brain whispered: “What if I forgot to lock the front door?”