BS: Cure For Insomnia: Inventory Body

Subject: Cure For Insomnia: Inventory Body
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Nov 01 - 01:56 PM

My Mom just told me about this, saying it's reported to be better than counting sheep, so I tried it, and she's right, you don't get below your head doing this.

If you find yourself in bed and can't sleep, take an inventory of your entire body, a piece at a time, starting at the top of your head.

Thus:

• Hair: Is it smooth under your head? Is it falling in your face? Adjust as necessary.
• Forehead: Unwrinkle.
• Jaw: Unclench. Is it hanging too much? Is it allowing drooling?

... and so on. You can get to hands, are they lying the way you want, etc. But I, the Ruler Of The Sleepness Night, have yet to get below my head doing this. Anybody got a song for this?

Subject: RE: BS: Cure For Insomnia: Inventory Body
From: 53
Date: 27 Nov 01 - 09:48 PM

i just take a seroquel and i'm gone for the night. BOB

Subject: RE: BS: Cure For Insomnia: Inventory Body
From: catspaw49
Date: 27 Nov 01 - 09:58 PM

Mrrz, this one is so wide open I won't even start................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Cure For Insomnia: Inventory Body
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 12:10 AM

I never have any problem on Monday. Just watch Monday Night Football. Puts me under in less than ten minutes.

Subject: RE: BS: Cure For Insomnia: Inventory Body
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 12:15 AM

I think it works better if you have someone else do the inventory, Mrrzy. **BG**

Subject: RE: BS: Cure For Insomnia: Inventory Body
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 12:18 AM

Ahhh laugh cat.

I'd love to run your inventory ANY time, day or night.

Though the hands be stone, you'd find a bone to fit just right.

Subject: RE: BS: Cure For Insomnia: Inventory Body
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 02:17 PM

The point, you guys, is to go to SLEEP. Sheesh. And yes, seroquel is a wonderful invention...

Subject: RE: BS: Cure For Insomnia: Inventory Body
From: Marymac90
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 02:51 PM

Your Inventory technique sounds kind of like a relaxation technique I know. It calls for you to tense up and then completely relax different sets of muscles in succession: feet, legs, tummy, hips, etc.

Marymac

Subject: RE: BS: Cure For Insomnia: Inventory Body
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 03:03 PM

Probably best not to start in the middle then huh?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Cure For Insomnia: Inventory Body
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 03:11 PM

I like to run through an alphabetized Flop Eared Mule to go to sleep. I make them up on the spot. Example:

Antsy Pants

Barfy Cats

Crappy Jazz

Ditzie Blonde

Effing Fool

Fartsy Arts

.... and so forth. I am usually either dead gone by this point, or awake enough to get up and go back on Mudcat. *G*

Questions? See thread, Flop-Eared Mule.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Cure For Insomnia: Inventory Body
From: Teresa
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 03:20 PM

Hmmm. Well, no matter how you do the "inventory", you do end up sleeping much better afterwards.

Subject: RE: BS: Cure For Insomnia: Inventory Body
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Nov 01 - 03:34 PM

Voices will put me to sleep. Not someone singing, I too often get into the song.........But comedy routines that I know by heart are always a winner....maybe 15 minutes and ZAP! Or there are several movies that I like a lot but will now invariably put me to sleep. Harlem Nights is one......I barely make it through the opening craps scene, but now my copy has broken so it's a lot tougher to get to sleep. Although another recent favorite has been on a lot and many nights I can find The General's Daughter on cable somewhere. That one takes a bit longer, but it does the job.

I read myself to sleep for years but it doesn't work anymore.

Spaw