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| Victim of Life's Circumstances  |
Count your breathing. Inhale deeply for 7 seconds and try and shut your mind down, just concentrate on breathing and counting to 7. Hold in for a count of 4. Exhale steadily for 7 seconds, concentrating on the count and exhale force. Continue to do this until you go to sleep. ________________________ God spelled backwards is dog | |||
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| Purveyor of Fine Avatars  |
People are recommending Xanax and Ambien but it sounds like you only want a few hours of sleep. I'd recommend not drinking any caffeinated beverages at all that day. That might help you go to sleep quickly. (Of course, maybe taking Ambien would be the way to go. That way you can get your rest and hit the road simultaneously.) "I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet raised to an alarming extent by Hollywood and Madison Avenue, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak!" - Calvin, "Calvin & Hobbes" | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
Just to encourage you <not unfortunately > the odds are against you. I’ve been bit many times by channel fever in anticipation of that long drive. It’s a mindset. You need to keep your mind calm and relax. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Dean of Law |
Excellent advice. By the time you are bored out of your mind you fall asleep. | |||
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Chip away the stone |
I've conditioned myself to fall asleep by listening to long-winded history podcasts. Currently I'm working through History on Fire. I set the sleep timer on my podcast player to 15 minutes, and I'm almost always asleep before the 15 mins. are up. A couple of drinks, sexytime, and a dose of "nighttime flu" syrup are a sure bet I'll sleep soundly for hours. | |||
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| Conservative Behind Enemy Lines  |
I found what you said riveting. | |||
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listen to a CD of Obamas, Shumers, and Pelosi's (best) speeches. | |||
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C-SPAN CMSGT USAF (Retired) Chief of Police (Retired) | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
Golf Channel, watch replays of matches, you'll be asleep in minutes, or NAPCAR racing... | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
Cool, dark room. White noise generator- a fan or some artificial means. ____________________________________________________ "I am your retribution." - Donald Trump, speech at CPAC, March 4, 2023 | |||
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always with a hat or sunscreen |
Golly there's a lot of Ernest Borgnine in this thread  Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | |||
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Watch the tv show "Elementary". The guy talks so soft and soothing I can almost never make it through a whole episode. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
“If you can’t sleep, try lying in the end of the bed. Then you might drop off.” — Mark Twain Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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