#figurative explanations

Needing to sleep so bad your body is screaming at you to let it rest. Your eyes are heavy and burning, your head pounding, sending spikes of pain into your eyes. Your muscles literally ache, your limbs too heavy to move but too pained to be still. Your joints throb, your stomach cramps, your body weighs much more than it had hours ago.

I have a ten page proposal due in two hours I haven’t even thought about, much less actually worked on in the month I’ve had to do it. I was panicking and trying to bullshit something, anything.

Five minutes later I’m here, calmly checking my notifications because I forgot that a second ago I was so scared I was nauseous and trying not to throw up. I panicked again as I remembered, franitically searching for sources to cite.