Insônia
# Insônia

Insónia (pt) ou insônia (pt-BR) é um distúrbio do sono caracterizado por dificuldades em adormecer ou manter-se adormecido durante o tempo desejado.
       - Mário Quintana in: Caderno H, p. 376; Mario Quintana - Poesia Completa, RJ: Editora Nova Aguilar, 2005
       - Dom Casmurro - Capítulo LV; romance do escritor brasileiro Machado de Assis.
       - It's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I don't know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind. I wish I believed, as J. B. Priestley did, that consciousness continues after disembodiment or death, not forever, but for a long while. Three score years and ten is such a stingy ration of time, when there is so much time around. Perhaps that's why some of us are insomniacs; night is so precious that it would be pusillanimous to sleep all through it! A "bad night" is not always a bad thing.
          - Brian Aldiss citado em "The Reader's digest" - Volume 131, página 229, DeWitt Wallace, Lila Bell Acheson Wallace - The Reader's Digest Association, 1987