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February 08, 2006
My Camera Came Today
It is gorgeous. GORGEOUS. I am so excited. I want to go use it right now. Unfortunately, I'm so tired I can't stand without swaying.
If only I could sleep.
I know I could do everything I need to do in the next two weeks and do it well, if I could only sleep at night. I lie there in bed and, well, lie there. I'm doing everything I can think of: meditating, going to bed at a decent hour and also at the same time (give or take 30 minutes) every night. I'm avoiding caffeine, and coffee at 9pm used to have no effect. Hell, in November coffee at 9pm didn't keep me from a full, deep night's rest. When I lie there in bed, I work on relaxing and just letting my mind wander. I'm not fixating on things or stressing over problems or anything. I just can' t sleep.
My biggest worry, aside from the whole "I'm so tired I can' t function at a useful level" thing is that I'm going to come down with some sort of horrible cold because I'm not getting enough sleep. And I have no control over that.
Tonight, I'm trying a glass of wine before bed. We'll see if that helps. (Though now that I think about it, it didn't help yesterday.)
Sigh.
Posted by sally at February 8, 2006 10:24 PM
Comments
My ridiculous sleep "trick." I start at 100 and count backwards. My mind begins to wander. I try to stay on track. I find myself repeating numbers. I get stuck in the 70s. Once my mind wanders off and I have trouble remembering to count backwards, I know I'm in. Just keep counting. Backwards. Until I'm...
...your results may vary.
Posted by: Terry Bain at February 8, 2006 11:31 PM
This will seem unutterably geeky, but when on occasion I have trouble falling asleep because my mind is racing, I try to work my way through a plot point in Dickens. The past couple of weeks I've been thinking through which Bleak House characters they've cut from the Masterpiece Theatre version of the story and why. That seems to silence the nagging worries and allow me to drop off.
Posted by: YoAmes at February 11, 2006 06:05 AM
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