What's the last thing you usually do or think about before you fall asleep?
I usually lie on my back for a long time waiting to totally unwind before I fall asleep. I do all the stuff -- turn off the computer early, don't watch tv, drink tea or read a book, keep the lights low -- but sleep is slow in coming, it always has been. So I lie on my back and fold my hands in what's not too corpselike a position and go over what happened in my day.
Sometimes if I need to force something out of my mind, I'll touch type in my head. I have this weird visualization thing I do where I read words as if I was tracking them letter by letter over a keyboard. It's a little complex but also not too brain-intensive and it's like a radiator flush for whatever was clogging my thoughts. It's hard to concentrate on that and also worry about whatever I may have been worrying around.
The last thing I usually think is "oh hey I think I'm dreaming..."
When I'm having that "lay in bed, no sleep coming" thing going
on...like your touch typing...I try to do sudoko in my head. I
always fall asleep before I finish. :)
Posted by: DeAnne | 09/27/2006 at 10:49 AM