Instead of Counting Sheep

Well..thres something that does get me tired enough to not have to count sheep or anything but, I usually dont share those things

Actually I have troubles sleeping....I do just about anything to get to sleep...count sheep, play solitare, drink heavily....it all depends what day it is really.

Talk to God. Give thanks for the good things, discuss areas I need direction, ask for peace or health or whatever people I know need. Apologize for my shortcomings, at least the ones I'm aware of. Pray for my family and loved ones.... Praise God for who and what He is to me.

This is soothing to me. It sort of cuts me off from worries, straighten me up with God, and makes me feel close to the people I discuss with Him.

i turn on the CBC and listen to the codfish future reports for Newfoundland. Works all the time.

The baseline from "Tell the Truth" by Otis Redding always works. No idea why. I focus on that, it regulates my breathing, and I'm in the land of Nod. (Just realized that this question is especially approrpriate coming from you, Noddy.)

I'm freakish in my ability to fall asleep anywhere at any time. I was traveling in Europe by train overnight, and the woman I was traveling with couldn't get comfortable on her half of the padded bench. So I just got down on the floor (clean, but the FLOOR, of a moving TRAIN) and still slept better than her. (Of course, being awakened from a deep sleep and doing a slow pan from boots to grumpy German train guy face, and then face emitting a string of incomprehensible German which was eventually decoded as a demand for passports, was not exactly restful.)

Stories, usually - or A2K, like I am now.

Sleeping next to a purring cat is very effective, I've found!

I'm a story teller myself.

I have seven or eight plot lines going and enjoy selecting the Adventure of the Evening while I'm dealing with the dogs and winding the cuckoo clock and brushing my teeth.

Every night I'm quite wistful that this time the story might continue through dreams, but I'm rarely that lucky.

Of late, I've been so flat out that I have no problems at all. Just grab myself a big handful of Mrs. SealPoet, and nighty-nite!

All I have to do is turn on my sleeping pill. The good old idiot box. The best sleep aid ever developed.

Some of us are up in the wee hours of the morning, posting on A2K. What sheep? c.i.

The Mighty Quinn wrote, in part:

"Well..there's something that does get me tired enough to not have to count sheep or anything but, I usually don't share those things..."

Precisely! "Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms" ...

The absolute best soporific I have ever encountered (I am not kidding) is to read Greek Drama. I have never been able to read more than a page or two before I am asleep.