Trying to Catch Those Elusive ZZZ’s
– I can feel a good night’s sleep coming on like I can sense a weather change. I can also feel a bad one. There’s nothing more frustrating than tossing and turning as you watch the clock digits move slowly past midnight, then 1:00 a.m., and beyond.But then there are other nights.Plenty of nights he saws wood, and I sleep like a baby.
I have friends who clean house or pay bills when they can’t sleep. Sometimes, I’ll turn on the bedroom television with closed captions, to keep things quiet. And yet, even that doesn’t work.Staying asleepI even have a few hours to cuddle under these warm covers,. I’m grateful. That’s when I stretch to look at the clock, expecting to see 6:00 a.m. Instead, it says 11:17 p.m. I’ve slept half an hour.Sometimes I try and outwit sleep.
– A few months ago, before falling asleep, I made the mistake of watching a documentary on serial killer Ted Bundy. As they went over the exhaustive list of women he murdered and I saw his normal face and heard him speak in his regular-guy voice, I saw how on the surface, he seemed harmless. I lasted twenty minutes before turning it off in terror.
The last thing watched is something funny. I just finished the entire catalog of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Before that was “The Office” and before that was “Veep”. Comedies have become my sleeping pill.I’ve learned a big lesson about trying to fall asleep in these later years. The more you fight it, the longer it takes.Okay, I can’t sleep, but I’m snug in my home with my husband and terrier Libby beside me. Libby’s hogging the bed and Randy’s snoring a little too vigorously, but whatever.
Just when I thought those red, velvet ropes would never open, they finally did. All I had to do was surrender.What do you do when you can’t sleep? Comments are always welcome and if you like, please share. Thank you!
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