If this sounds like the sort of thought that would come to someone sleep-deprived in the middle of the night, it is. I’ve been having difficulty sleeping since sometime in 2020, and I’m sure I’m not alone. Through trial, error, prescriptions and meditation apps, I have found the one thing that truly works for me—studying human anatomy. My insomnia led me on an exhaustive, 18-month-long search for boring, self-improving books, to be read by the light of a carefully dimmed lamp. After a perusal of classical literature, my eye fell on the holy grail. A brick of a tome, clocking in at 1,153 pages and a solid six pounds. Moore, Dalley and Agur’s Clinically Oriented Anatomy, the medical textbook of the Harvard Medical School’s “Human Functional Anatomy” course. Six months later, my book is as battered as any first-year medical student’s, and I am obsessed. I share the most fascinating anatomy facts on Bluesky, TikTok and Instagram, in a series I call Insomnia Anatomy Academy.