Dreaming of an Apocalypse

 I suspect it may be a result of guzzling too many lemsips and paracetamol but I had a particularly eerie dream this morning.

The dream started with me trying to get to sleep and being worried that I would not be able to get to sleep and, not getting my 8 hours of shut-eye, would be tired, cross and surly the next day. After spending hours tossing and turning in my dream (yes, I often do dream of having insomnia - definitely a sign of a neurotic personality), I gave up my wretched attempts to get to sleep and turned on the TV.

On the TV, there was a news report (curiuosly read out by the news-caster who read the chorus at the beginning of Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet ), saying that there was an epidemic of sleeping. They called it 'Sleeping Beauty Syndrome' (yes, I have a cheesey subconscious), people fell asleep and never woke up again.

The dream jumped to a few days later and most of the world had fallen into eternal slumber. I was sitting up in bed shaking from the copious amounts of caffeine I had consumed and was trying to read a book but my eyes could not focus on the words. Eventually I became so exhausted and weak, I finally gave in and let myself fall asleep even though I was crying because I knew that if I went to sleep, I would die.

I woke up around that point. Actually I was relieved to wake-up. Even on a Monday morning!

Anyway, I have been thinking about a little about Apocalypses (is that the plural? Should it be apocalypsi?) since then and have decided that compared to plagues of bugs and machines turning humankind into batteries, a sleep apocalypse is not so bad.

What do other people think? An interesting, if somewhat morbid, poll for Monday.

What kind of apocalypse would be the best/worst way to end the world as we know it?