Ever since I can remember I have kept a bottle of water next to my bed. I say ever since I can remember but I’d say that before my teenage years it as probably a glass of water and probably when I was 13 or 14 it became a bottle. It continued for the rest of the years since. I always have either a plastic bottle or something filled with water.
I have always felt thirsty in the middle of the night hence the bottle. By the time I hit my 20s and then my 30s it became a nightly ritual to go and fill a bottle and keep it next to me. Nowadays I have this rather nice bottle, which I fill with water by around 11pm and then I keep it on my computer chair, which is next to my bed. If I feel thirsty in the middle of the night, I can just reach over and take a drink.
Last night I filled the bottle but then kept it on the dining table in the main room. I came into my bedroom and then switched off the lights and started watching tv. I was falling asleep and switched the tv off. My mother went to bed and noticed that the bottle was outside and knocked on my door but I as too comfortable I didn’t want to get up from bed. So I ended up not getting the bottle of water and slept off. However I dreamed about drinking water and not getting enough to drink. When I woke up at 7 am my throat was parched and I just couldn’t wait to get a drink of water.
Lesson learned. Bottle will be in my room!