Comments on: Sleep that knits up the raveled sleeve of care

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:27:22 +0000

but it’s probably a bad idea because it only sparks more thoughts. And many of the thoughts aren’t what you’d call soothing.

As you reject the light of wisdom, so shall it reject you and turn elsewhere.

As for me, the peace that surpasses all understanding is not to give up. If anything, my spiritual progress, my heart chakra, and my sleep has been slightly better than recent years.

Geoffrey Britain on March 24, 2020 at 7:38 pm said:
Lately, I’m getting about 5 hours sleep with nearly the same MO.

Congratulations on the media, for helping to shorten the life spans of humans, using fear pron.

By: Mac

Mac — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 17:37:40 +0000

Neo: “one of the most brilliant things ever written, actually”

Yes indeed.

By: Fractal Rabbit

Fractal Rabbit — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:12:26 +0000

Neo,

I understand completely. I was a night owl for many years. And one that bordered on an insomniac. I averaged 5 hours of sleep a night from my teens to my 40’s.

But I could tell my health was changing and not for the better. Not saying that yours is!

Changing my sleep habits however has been one of the best decisions I ever made. Also one of the most difficult.

By: Wendy K Laubach

Wendy K Laubach — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:52:15 +0000

Nothing knocks me out faster than trying to listen to a book on tape. In the morning I have to rewind to the same chapter I started on.

By: Henry

Henry — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:47:55 +0000

The lovely description of sleep by Macbeth is the more poignant when we understand that it is fed by his apprehension that sleeping is past for him. How awful to realize that the blessing of sleep is forever past.

‘Still it cried, “Sleep no more!” to all the house.
“Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.”’

By: neo

neo — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:26:33 +0000

Mac:

The “out out” speech is one of the passages I was talking about when I wrote “I love certain passages.” I think it’s one of the most brilliant things ever written, actually. It expresses what people can feel – then and now – when they’ve lost faith that there’s any meaning in life.

By: Mac

Mac — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:05:44 +0000

I also read Macbeth in high school, along with half a dozen or so other major Shakespeares. I loved it. It was my favorite then and remains at least among my top few. We saw a movie of it and I’ve sometimes wondered if that had something to do with the impression it made on me.

Maybe all was not as well as it should have been with a sixteen-year-old who thought the “Out, out…” speech was just the greatest thing in the world. 🙂

By: bdh

bdh — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 03:48:23 +0000

Neo, I have much the same problem. Although I haven’t tried Shakespeare, maybe I should with the early am internet check. Thanks for that great selection above.
I am not a morning person either, although the idea always sounds good in theory. Coffee in bed at 7:30 is usually the best I can muster most days.
I usually also say silent prayers which are rote and tend to lull me to sleep. Or at least some peace with the current situation.

By: neo

neo — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 00:06:19 +0000

Fractal Rabbit:

The last time I went to bed at that hour – without being ill – was when I was about 3 years old. And I resented the early hour even then. I am a very extreme nightowl and have been from early childhood. However, I usually am not looking at my cell phone or computer any later than an hour or so before bed. My problem is a compulsion to check the phone when I can’t sleep – when I’m lying there, thinking a lot anyway. And the cell phone makes it worse, I know. But at the time I look at it, I’m in a sort of half-asleep mode when my willpower to resist is just about nil.

It’s a problem.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:38:52 +0000

Lately, I’m getting about 5 hours sleep with nearly the same MO.