Losing Sleep presents interview footage of a self-confessed computer hacker who is struggling with chronic insomnia. His work on the computer has become such an all encompassing cyberworld, that for him returning to the grounded physical world is a frightening endeavour. "Giving in" to sleep seems like a violent surrender. Yet only by submitting to simple physical acts, such as a long, deliberate walk, can he find any rest.
"The kind of hyperbolic intensity and the constant stimulus, structural stimulus of technology -
that's become the norm, the normal sort of way of working - that for weeks and months on end I'll be existing in this kind of almost hyperbolic kind of state - and that state is just widely disassociated from anything physical at all. And yet it's become the natural state. It is the natural technological state."