The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

Presented by Penguin.

Sleep. Rest. Like money, you only consider it when you yourself have too little. You then think about it all the time, and the less you have the more you think about it. It turns into the prism through which you see the globe and nothing at all can exist except in relation to it.

Samantha Harvey’s insomnia arrived, seemingly, from nowhere; for a year she has spent her nights chasing sleep that hardly ever comes. She’s tried everything to appease it. Nothing is helping.

What goes on when among the simple human needs runs unmet? For Samantha Harvey, intense sleep deprivation led to a raw clarity about life itself. Initial and deep, The Shapeless Unease is definitely a startlingly insightful exploration of memory space, writing and impact, death and grief, and the will to survive.