As I do religiously regularly to see what random search strings people type to end up on my website. The most common was “pixel adoptables” or “adobe illustrator tutorials” or something along those lines, such as “drawing eyelashes” “how to draw wine bottles” and “how to draw a tree with photoshop”. There were also some strange random things people were searching for including:

• noise makers when you sleep
• stomping on purpose neighbors
• bathroom toilet noise makers
• neighbours motorbike wakes us at 5am
• what to write in a letter to a loud neighbor that lives above you
• don’t you just love the sound of my motorcyle at 3am?

And many other insomnia and noisy neighbour related questions. Do I really blog about my insomnia that much and do people really search for these type of things?

I am not sure what you would write in a letter to your neighbours, you could do what I did and write a rhetorical note on your blog. And no, I don’t love the sound of a motorcycle at 3am.

Dear Neighbour,

You don’t know me, but I live below you on the second floor. It has come to my attention that I must write you this letter with a few questions.
Why must you have the constant need to get up in the middle of the night and what I presume is move furniture around? Why must you stomp around on the ground like you have elephant feet, letting it echo down through to my room at night? Why is your bathroom above my bedroom, so when you go to the toilet at night I hear you? Why do you wake up every morning at 4am and walk back and forth around your apartment for no apparent reason? And finally, why the hell were you sawing and drilling stuff at 3 fucking am?
Maybe you are a night shift worker, but why be so loud? Maybe you have some form of OCD where you need to move furniture around on a nightly basis. Maybe you are a sleep walker and do not know what you are doing? Maybe you have incontinence and you need to go to the toilet every 2 hours.
I have never seen you but from the sound of your footsteps I can tell you must be a big person, or perhaps you just stomp around on purpose to piss me off. Whatever the reason, please just shut the hell up and let me have a good nights sleep for once in my life.
Sincerely your neighbour

Yes my insomnia has worsened due to a noisy neighbour who just won’t shut up. What can I do?

It is 5.30am and I cannot sleep. I hate insomnia.

Last night I got locked in the toilets at Shell Service Station. The damn door jammed and would not budge, the lock was stuck and the knob wouldn’t turn. The toilets are right out the back so I knew no one would hear me yell, so I started smashing on the door really hard.

Eventually someone heard me and then a few minutes later, Carl came out of the car to see why I was taking so long. By now I was stressed out and in tears, I wanted to get out of there. The staff at shell couldnt care less, the dumb woman kept telling me to “push the door, push it”.

“I am for freak sake!”

In the background I could hear Carl going off at the manager saying he would call work safety or something or other. I waited and waited, and luckily Carl found a screwdriver in the car, and unscrewed the lock off the door to get me out. Before I had even gotten out, the staff were back at the counter reading magazines. They didnt even care I was trapped, and made no attempt to help.