Here’s a fun experiment, my friend Peter over at The Buddha Diaries has started a meme on the above subject and is asking his blogger friends to carry it on. I’m going to very interested to see how far this spreads.
The rules are really quite simple:
1. Answer the questions
2. Link back to the original meme
3. Tag others to participate
So without further ado, let’s get stuck in!
1) How do you sleep at night? Is your sleep affected by the national angst? Do you drop off easily, as you always did? Or does it take a while to get to sleep?
Generally, I sleep soundly, when I eventually get to sleep. I’m a bit of a martyr to lying awake tossing and turning, depending on what I’ve been doing before I turn in. I tend to wake quite early as well, then lie there listening for the alarm.
2) What strategies, if needed, do you use to get to sleep? Pills? Sheep? Late night television shows? And/or…?
I’ve used a few over the years, one was a relaxation technique in which you begin at the feet and imagine each part of your body (feet, shins, knees, thighs, etc) to be warm and heavy. Another is to mentally release my grip on whatever is keeping me awake, then imagine it floating away. Sometimes, it’s just a quick bathroom trip.
3) Do you wake up in the middle of the night, plagued by obsessive thoughts?
No, once I’m asleep, I rarely wake. But, lying awake plagued by obsessive thoughts, guilty as charged I’m afraid!
4) What strategies do you have to get back to sleep?
In all honesty, I’d just use the ones from question 2.
5) Are your dreams affected? Are they more anxious than before? Do they wake you up in a sweat? Or are they peaceful, innocent, undisturbed by the general malaise?
Here’s an interesting one. I rarely remember my dreams, those that I do recall are either terrfiying or just plain surreal. I’ve often wondered why I only rarely recall them, and at one point in my life, I genuinely believed I didn’t dream at all.
So, in the spirit of the original post, I’d like to impose on the following people:
