Lie in bed for a couple of hours, hoping you fall back asleep
Take Melatonin, hoping you fall back asleep
See how long you can go without looking at the clock
Listen for the newspaper to be delivered
Pet the cat, hoping you fall back asleep
Read People magazine, hoping you fall back asleep
Envy the cat and the husband who are both breathing deeply and twitching slightly
Eventually give up on the sleep thing and decide to be “productive”
Pay bills
Organize a file
Make a birthday card
Back up your computer
Play Spider Solitaire until you win
Play Freecell until you lose
Poke around on MySpace and realize that the fact that it annoys you greatly that nobody spells correctly anymore suggests that you aren’t the target demo for the social network movement.
Check out your high school alumni website and renew your relief that your 20th reunion is over and done with.
Log into Yahoo Messenger hoping to catch a friend on the east coast or someone else who can’t sleep.
Read the news from places you used to live
Blog
Look up the rules for "lay" versus "lie" yet again
Make plans to crawl back into bed when the sun comes up. Oddly, that often results in a disappointingly short nap.
3 comments:
Try tricking your brain into thinking it's dreaming by never letting yourself have a logical thought. As soon as something makes sense, free associate into surreal nonsense. It works for me, though I don't have to do it very often. Oh, and I find if I have a little scotch instead of dessert, I sleep like a rock - booze for what ails ya. Or maybe you just don't need sleep?
-Zeke
Thanks for the tips, Zeke!
Dream tricking is a very intereting tactic. I'm going to try it. Although, my fear is that since I'm not much of a surrealist, it might take me more brain power to be non-sensical. I used to do math in my head (long division was the most successful) to keep my brain busy on something tedious. That had about a 65.742% success rate.
As for alcohol, I've found that it helps me fall asleep but more often than not, I wake up at 3:00am with no hope of falling back to sleep. Of course, I've never tried scotch... Hmmm.
And boy, do I need sleep. Sure enough, the sun came up, I crawled back into bed, and fell asleep for about 2 hours. Zzzzzzz
65.742%! - LOL!
Yeah, maybe my dream tricking thing works only for dreamer-types (read: space cadets)
-Zeke
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