Yeah, I have to be in the dark too, with something cold over my eyes, and just conk out for a few hours.

I once cured a pretty bad headache (when I was a teenager) by saying to myself, "Crazy Horse wouldn't let something like this thing be stronger than him and ruin his day."...and bingo! The headache was gone totally in about 2 minutes or less!

Alas...I was never able to focus clearly enough on that particular idea again to make it work for curing headaches. I'm probably just too lazy by nature. :-) I must have been very strongly focused on that day, and you have to bear in mind that Crazy Horse was a very significant figure to me, specially at that age. (It was a sort of religious experience, I'd have to say.)

I am not attempting to reflect usefully or not on anyone else's personal circumstances by telling this story, but I think it's an interesting one in its own right. It was a case of mind over matter.

- LH