{"id":179751,"date":"2026-01-26T22:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=179751"},"modified":"2026-01-26T22:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:48:26","slug":"insomnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/01\/26\/insomnia\/","title":{"rendered":"Insomnia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had a bad night couldn&#8217;t get to sleep until 04.30.  That&#8217;s not happened for years. A combination of anxiety, arthritis playing up and feeling very depressed about a lot of things that are completely outside of my control. Some of the things bothering me are primarily down to my own shortcomings but everybody can&#8217;t do everything.<br><br>Generally I  look at my the posts on my socials most mornings before I get out of bed. Recently I have often been moved to tears by both the good and the bad. I  can&#8217;t say I have a faith though I feel that perhaps there is more to the world than we see day to day and maybe something beyond that binds us. Most people will still hold out a hand to help I would hope though perhaps many don&#8217;t through fear which is also understandable of course.<br><br>Got my pedometer today. seem seems to work quite well. What I am interested in is how many steps I take on a day when I am at home. It looks so far like quite a few. I shall see what it adds up to in a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2219854616&#038;color=%23400e0e&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/wasted-life\" title=\"Wasted Life\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Wasted Life<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Music wise a thought: My voice has always been weird so any more quirky aspects are usually an improvement and I only  have a reliable octave and half. I sing but I sure ain&#8217;t no singer at times. But I can make it work in the context of what I do though.<br><br>I went to Morrisons and the left wing mirror glass fell out on the way back \ud83d\ude02 Got to love old cars.  A new one has been ordered&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a bad night couldn&#8217;t get to sleep until 04.30. That&#8217;s not happened for years. A combination of anxiety, arthritis playing up and feeling very depressed about a lot of things that are completely outside of my control. Some of the things bothering me are primarily down to my own shortcomings but everybody can&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2026\/01\/26\/insomnia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Insomnia<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/DSCF0020.jpg?fit=1280%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6NRDR-insomnia","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4205,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2014\/06\/16\/winners-and-losers-dice-and-logic-and-dont-forget\/","url_meta":{"origin":179751,"position":0},"title":"Winners and Losers, dice and logic and don&#8217;t forget &#8230;.","author":"diana Stone","date":"June 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Define success, what is it really? 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