My eyes were red.My head was spinning.My eyebrows heavy.A rumbling sound, like the drone of a particularly smooth motor was running in the background.As my brain was shutting down,Slowly,painfully the world was fading into oblivion.A sharp jab in my left abdomen suddenly halted the whole process and quickly bought me back into the world.I found myself sitting in a classroom listening to my biology teacher.My friend on my left was the one who saw me about to drop on the desk,so being the lifesavers that friends are,he quickly made the split second decision to save my life and at the same time with delirious satisfaction and delight elbowed me quite violently.You see friends are always looking for chances to beat the shit out of you and this was a golden chance he wasn't going to miss.Though I muttered a few choice expletives at him I was quite grateful that he woke me up.That is how you show gratitude to friends.Throw some nice exotic sounding expletives and you are good.Having got back into the world of the living, I then shifted my focus,whatever that was left,to my teacher.She was rambling on about some organism that attaches itself to the body of another organism,shutdowns the brain and slowly takes over the host.Yeah,I thought to myself,you are having the same effect on this classroom.Five minutes was all I could listen and slowly my mind drifted off to some other thought.And a couple of minutes later the cycle was beginning to restart.My mind was slowly shutting down.Again a jab from the ever alert friend woke me up. Ahh! I groaned to myself.This has got to stop.I imagined that there should be a bed right beside my bench and as soon as I felt that extreme sleepiness that only teachers can induce,I will jump right into the bed and sleep till my heart's content.But that would remain a dream.So sad.Another thing that annoyed me was sometimes at home when I wanted to sleep early I couldn't fall asleep easily.I thought at times like those these teachers should be made available and a class arranged right beside my bed.As soon as the lecture starts I will fall asleep and jump into my bed.So much for wishful thinking.
Sleep inducing classes were the worst.Right through my school,junior college and college these zombie making classes made life difficult.In school we had a few teachers who,at times,looked like had magical powers in inducing sleep in students.In college I had the freedom to skip boring lectures.If at all I ever attended those classes it was only because I had a very urgent need of attendance. If theres one thing that I don't feel nostalgic about,its these sleepy classes.Thank god I no longer have to attend those.
