He would wake up every day at the same time during the night. Exactly twenty minutes after three. Some days he would go back to sleep without any problem, some others he would lie on the bed wide eyed staring at the ceiling. Of late, the later were more and more common. He had gone to several different doctors trying to find a solution, trying to find some answers. Some gave him pills, that made him sleep even worse, others recommended him to take up yoga, to relax. But he didn't have any kind of problem relaxing, it was just that something inside his brain had decided that it was time to wake up, and that was it. It was as if he had an internal clock, as if he were a machine programmed to start running at a specific time. It didn't matter what time did he go to sleep, he would always wake up at the same exact time. After a few months he even got used to it and started taking profit of those spare hours to read and paint. And suddenly, one day, he didn't wake up at the usual time. In fact he didn't wake up at all. His internal clock stopped and he was stuck in his sleep.
P.S.: I have to admit that this story is inspired by my own problem of waking up in the middle of the night for no reason whatsoever.
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