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[rootofnewt]

well, i'm awake.

still not king.

slept a bit better last night, though it took until after 6am to fall asleep.

i woke up a few times between noon and two, but i appear to be whole now. and--best of all--i'm not too braindead to drive.

need to get body warmed up, shower, and head over to xiane's house.

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[sabethea.livejournal.com]

damn... i haven't been doing my bit in helping to rule the world. sorry about that: a better few hours whilst you were asleep and you could be king by now...

[lupa.livejournal.com]

still not king.

at least you don't have fashionable facial scruff as well...

[cutopia.livejournal.com]

Have you tried getting one of those 'brainsync' cd's and listening to that as you try to sleep? They sell ones that do theta and delta--theta waves being the ones that tend to lead into sleep and delta being deep sleep waves (naturally, it is also possible pie-r8 those as well online).

I've noticed I tend to fall right to sleep (in classes, meetings, and at night) when I start daydreaming (I'm talking about real daydreaming where you make your own first-person fiction story in your head, not the kind of rambling thoughts that most people seem to think are daydreaming--is it becoming a lost art?). I suspect this works for me because that kind of daydreaming is causing my brainwaves to move towards the theta range.
The way this all started was as a young child. I was so afraid of the spooks that I could never get to sleep. In boredom, I would just play more fun/comforting scenarios in my head. Eventually, I would get so sleep deprived and sleepy that I would drift off. As a result, I've ended up perfectly trained to fall asleep while daydreaming (plain old conditioning). I suspect other people either will already find that daydreaming naturally does move the brainwaves towards sleep, or they can persistantly daydream every night until they develop the same conditioning.