Do Not Disturb

I am out of my afternoon coma and have shaken myself into reality. I wonder why I sleep so deeply, it must run in the family but there have been times when people where abusing my pretty doorbell, when they were intent on breaking my front door down, when they called both my land line and my mobile phone line, all at the same time. I still kept on sleeping and heard nothing.I have given my twin heart attacks when I do this because he always fears the worst. I have sent shivers right down the spine of my mum and dad because they too fear the worst. And I have given my other half quite some scared moments because he also feared the worst. And all of them thought the same thing; that I must have fallen and hit my cerebellum so hard that I knocked myself unconscious when really it's just my head which hit the feather pillow. And all of them were quite pissed once they managed to get through the door (spare keys), and find out that I was still sleeping like a baby. Which didn't make much sense, since they should have been pleased to find out that I was safely in bed and not sprawled on the floor like some homicide scene out of Murder she Wrote. My relationship with sleep has always been strange. I can only sleep on my own pillow, and yes I've been known to take it on holiday with me. I need my own bed, my own cluttered surroundings. I need the same wall to stare at, the same cats jumping up and down on me, and then sleep is easy. But had I to miss just one of the requisites, then sleep is something way far off. It is probably the reason why I hated sleep-overs even as a child, while my twin was sleeping all over the place (just sleeping at the time). But not I. I envy those who enter the world of sleep exactly when they hit the pillow, those who can sleep a solid eight hours and not wake up some time in the middle. I can't. And perhaps it's also the reason why I should hang a 'Please Do Not Disturb Sign' and carry it around proudly on the left (or right) side of my chest. I would if I could. If i could get away with it, that is.