Tell me, what do you think of, when you can't fall asleep?

- Weird sex stuff
– People I hate
– My own mortality

In that order.

It’s usually, why did I eat that? I usually can’t sleep when I have a lot of gas.

Sometimes I play out fantasies and daydreams in my head that I wish would happen… like romantically between me and someone I like.

Or it’s things I need to do the next day, goals I have.

It depends on what’s going on in my life. If I’m in bed and can’t just fall asleep, my mind starts to wonder. But usually I think about stuff I want to happen….

Or sometimes I replay things in my head that happened in the past that I wished I could have fixed…. you can’t, but sometimes I wonder.

Thinking is usually the problem, if I can’t sleep.

I wonder how other people see the world. People I interacted with that day. I try to think of what made them so kind, or angry, or something I admire about them that I see and maybe they don’t see.

Then I have a drink.

Repeat until sleep ensues.

Usually I make up a scenario and imagine things until I slip into sleep.

If something is bothering me, then I think about it obsessively until I have to get up and talk to someone. I hate nights like that.

Less thinking, more wanking. Best sleep aid I know.

Elementary – my crushes
High-school – my girlfriend And buddies
College – my girlfriend and sx
20’s – my job and sx
30’s – job and family and sx
40’s – death and sx

Photo ideas, choices I’ve made, choices I hope to make, past loves, future loves, getting older, I sometimes make up visions like surreal landscapes, how many hours until I need to function like a regular member of society again…I can have all of these thoughts at once.

Sometimes I think whether @ANef_is_Enuf is also awake and Fluthering. Like right now…at 3:24 am. : )

Maybe. :)

Shoes! Or play a movie in my head.

I think of her.
Flashbacks of my life.
Future life.

And of course, I think of you all before I sleep…

Tell me, what do you think of, when you can’t fall asleep?: I always have a hard time falling asleep. I’ll replay old memories in my head daily wondering where the hell I messed up.

Always have a hard time falling asleep? That’s a problem. Caffeine? Alcohol? Something on a regular basis?

I don’t normally have a hard time falling asleep but if I do, I go and read a book.

I always listen to a book on CDs, with the light out. It’s the only way I can fall asleep. The story keeps my mind from racing and filling up with the detritus left over from the day.

In the morning, I know that I have slept because I have missed several chapters of the book.

When I can’t sleep, I let my imagination run wild and come up with ridiculous daydreams. Like, I’m a time-traveling secret agent by day, rock star by night, I have a pet T-Rex, my car is a tank and my apartment is so big that I can rollerblade around in there. Sometimes these scenarios include boyfriends and mostly they just hang out shirtless in the apartment and cook for me.

I think of situations and times when I was in such a warm, sweet, comfortable sleep that I smiled like a baby.
That usually works.
Although I must add that I hardly ever have problems getting asleep.

The best ticket to la la land is to turn off the thinker….turn on the imaginative side and just watch pictures go by and try to hitch on to something and watch it like a ridiculous movie, and let that escort you off hand in hand with Mr. Sandman. This of course works best when it is just too much stimulus from the day that has you revved up rather than relaxing. For really serious insomnia times I actually lay there as if I was waiting to take the big trip. I just pretend that I have nothing more to do on earth, that everything is all in order as best I can, that my relationships are in as good of health as I can leave them and just lay there and wait to be “picked up” .....eventually at that level of relaxation I do drift off and there is nothing weird that happens in my dreams or anything like that. It is just that we humans always have something in our heads that we have to take care of so I pretend there is nothing else to do.