Sentence 1: It seems as though the days get longer, my memory gets shorter. 
 Sentence 3: Every night, as I lay down, I picture my mind as a ship 
 Sentence 4:  A ship that sails into the sea, through the fog and into the darkness 
 Sentence 5:  A ship that sails with no standard course and no sense of direction 
 Option 1: For a month now I've been taking vitamins to help fill up my memory again. 
 Option 2: A day feels like a month, though I can't remember what filled it up.