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Originally Posted by phenomshel
Finished "Murder on the Eightfold Path" about six a.m. this morning. The book was good, but not quite that good....The reason I was reading at six a.m. instead of sleeping is that I've been having trouble staying asleep. I fall asleep just fine, but if I'm ever awakened, I have the devil of a time getting back to sleep.
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I hate that. And, for me, getting up and reading only postpones when I will return to sleep and so I end up losing some. My recent approach which has worked pretty well is to immediately try to stop thinking or doing anything and instead try to lull myself back to sleep by remembering and concentrating on the sensations of the most relaxing time in my life. Lately, I've been remembering sleeping in late one Saturday morning with my wife in Colorado when there were no kids, no noises from neighbours, and large, peaceful snowflakes were falling outside on the grasses in a nearby marsh. Quiet bliss purges the thoughts from my racing mind and....[yawn].........