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How do you all get to sleep at night?

Started by Joe., January 20, 2013, 07:01:24 PM

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Jamie D

Quote from: Pica Pica on February 03, 2013, 05:03:11 AM
My Birthday is 7/7 also. One of those few dates Americans can't get backwards.

Oh!  You mean 07 July!
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Pica Pica

Yep - and not July 7.

I've had a little more thought about what angiejuly said while I was in the shower and have concluded that she only said that to get a rise out of me, nobody can believe that.

To believe that would be to ignore all spark of reason, to ignore the consequences of cause and effect and to blank all the advances and theories that come out of a shared world together.

It would also be to ignore all the evidence of our senses, to believe that all things are chosen by the experiencer is to be literally out of your senses - or in other words, mad. It is clear that the sense experience of smelling a rose is caused by a rose, that a taste one by the thing eaten. We may not experience the exact same smells and tastes but our experiences are close enough to allow us to talk about it.

Finally, the biggest reason a person couldn't believe that is the moral interpretation. It would mean that there were a bunch of children in Sandy Hook who really wanted to get shot, the the citizens of Pompei were very keen on being calcified, that babies would have an innate desire to be born deformed or with limbs missing - that all old people have a deathwish.

It is exactly the kind of egotism that ignoring reason brings, it is a locked in state of 'I' and 'Me'ness - that even the outside world cannot affect 'Me', that everything that happens is what 'I' choose.

So I would conclude that the view said above is irrational, insane and immoral and I don't think anybody could actually believe it.
'For the circle may be squared with rising and swelling.' Kit Smart
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MadelineB

I find that an excellent way to improve my chance to sleep, is to not have an a deeply upsetting conversation with someone I care about a few hours before bedtime.

Unfortunately I did not follow that advice tonight. :(

For sleeping's sake, I don't like any conversation from a dear friend that begins with "I don't want us to be enemies, but".
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
~Maya Angelou

Personal Blog: Madeline's B-Hive
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Anna++

Things that didn't help me sleep last night:  Drinking pop (or "soda" for you non-midwesterners) shortly before bed :(.
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Of course I'm sane.  When trees start talking to me, I don't talk back.



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DriftingCrow

My days are usually so busy that I am lucky and often just fall right to sleep after hitting the pillow. I also get up a 4:50 AM which helps.  :D

Things to help on days when it's hard to sleep: meditation, cuddling up with an adorable puppy, or just getting up and reading until I get tired.

Hope you can sleep better Joey!
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Jayne

Quote from: Lesley_Roberta on February 03, 2013, 08:58:38 AM


The thing is I have incredible snoring. I have been told I can keep people awake, just by sleeping myself :) Lucky for them I don't sleep a lot.

I snore so loudly that i've actually woken myself up mumbling "what the hell was that noise?"
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Arch

I'm finding that overwork and exhaustion are great sleep inducers, but I don't recommend them.
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