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Uh, I think the answer to that one is a flat YES!
“The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ain’t That The Truth! I’m actually doing a tad of research trying to figure all this out. No response to my emails or searches yet, but I will update this post when I get some concrete answers. I have some ideas and theories, but nothing for sure.
It seems that after birth, and certainly through our first dozen or so years of life, humans will sleep through just about anything; ringing of phones, doorbells and dogs barking – even mild earthquakes. As we age, more and more things; noises, distracting stimuli – something in our brain is triggered and says time to wake up. Nothing I’ve uncovered has given me a definitive direction. I guess I’ll have to sleep on it! Sorry.
Nothing appears to bother us as we mature; no troubles and carefree. Then we find ourselves in a most maddening spot of not being able to sleep at all. I believe all that mind chatter going off in our heads has something to do with it, but there is a greater scientific response than that.
We all have those off nights of not being able to sleep, but since the layoff it’s been egregious. How does a person get off their mind what won’t go away to aide in better and deeper sleep? I do have kids, but that keeps my wife up more than me. I do wake up, but she, more than not, has to physically get up to attend to it. But still, I am immensely curious as to what the physiological and underlying causes are of sleeplessness. Even under the best of circumstances, middle age seems to be a time of much less sleep. I do believe as we enter our prime years of life, most revert to longer periods of sleep.
Trying to find “regular” work, formulating innovative methods that could lead to revenue streams and making mistakes while attempting to do all of that, meetings, phone calls, door knocking, marriage, raising children, aging parents…you know – life.
As our labyrinth of existence increases and, in turn, looking and finding the best path in which to set out to arrive at the finish line successfully is, no doubt, daunting. Patience wears thin and tempers run deep. I would like to know how the mind can put this aside and allow for decent sleep.
Well, I guess since we are theoretically in control of our intelligence and not the other way around, it is up to us to best devise those behaviors.
As our minds race to what is currently nowhere, let’s find avenues to slow down the process and calm ourselves down. Take a deep breath and try to relax. It will get better – it has to, really. Keep at it, be consistent and follow through.
“If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.”
- Dale Carnegie
Well, at least we’re in good company!
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