Posted on 03/28/2009 1:40:56 PM PDT by JoeProBono
The weekend looms, and that means a morning lie-in for many - though with the clocks going forward there'll be an hour's less shut-eye on Sunday morning. But, says Sean Coughlan, there's much more to getting a really good kip than just shutting your eyes.
Britons are the worst sleepers in Europe, claimed a survey last week, depicting a nation starved of sleep and facing a daily battle against red-eyed exhaustion. Notice in boarding house If it's a good sleep you want, there are rules
One in five of the population sleeps for fewer than seven hours a night, according to research from the Future Foundation for the health campaign Sleep Well Live Well. Many of these tired souls reported feeling stressed and unhappy.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Alright, I’m hooked. Lets hear the whole dream. Type it up right now please. Then I’ll tell you about my repeating dreams about the dreaded “monkey-rats”.
The female enters the bedroom and paces back and forth dragging her paws on the carpet. If this does not annoy us awake she will paw the side of the bed.
If my wife or I don't let them out there is usually a prize for us in the morning.
I don’t remember the whole dream. The memorable part was the period of lucidity that I described.The rest of it I vaguely remember as being unremarkable. I sometimes do type them up over my morning coffee when they’re especially interesting for some reason.
I’ve had lucid dreams a few times. They’re always fun. You’re omnipotent in a world of your own creation. I usually don’t take enormous advantage of it- I just pretty much make happen what I need to within the existing ‘story line’. But then, I’m the kind of guy who eats normal sized portions at buffets. :-)
Oh- speaking of recurring dreams, I had a recurring dream connected with the Marine Corps- through some paperwork screw up, I had to go through MCRD over and over again. I’ve found a couple of other Marines that’ve had that same dream. :-)
“Within ten minutes, it’s snoresville for me. :)”
You are correct!!!
I know I am going to get stomped for the following: For me personally, If I also want a good nap, I listen to Rush for 15 minutes, and I then go into a good sleep. What puts me to sleep is his repetitive yammer. He sometimes repeats things 7 times (I counted). That is why he needs 3 hours of air time.
Ok. Now my part of the bargain...
i sleep on my couch in my front room, most of the time. I live alone in my own house and all the bedrooms are unused. What a waste, right? My dog sleeps on the floor right next to me. She is a very light sleeper. I generally wake up automatically whenever she lifts her head from the floor. I can’t explain how that is possible.
But when I am in deep deep sleep, with strange dreams, I don’t wake up...completely. I wake up but am still in my dream, and not able to get up. Then what goes on in reality gets mixed into my dream in progress.
Well, one nite I dreamed that there were things in the front yard that woke my dog up. I dreamed I was trapped in sleep but I could telepathically give my dog orders while in sleep. I could see what my dog could see. The things turned out to be a cross between a small monkey and a large rat. They began to infiltrate the house. They were after me to kill me. I couldn’t wake up. But I could control my dog and send her wherever they were and have her kill them. They were on the ceiling, in the cupboards, behind furniture, etc. They were coming through holes in the floor.
It became a dream that came back night after night.
Wow. How did the doggeh vs. monkey rat conflict resolve?
that’s a good one.
I had one similar. I used to dream that I got a letter from college that my degree was revoked because they received a letter from my highschool that my highschool diploma was a mistake. I was missing one class.
So to get my college degree back I had to get my highschool diploma back, which meant going back to my highschool for one semester for one class.
I had to go through MCRD over and over again.
Yeo, had that one several times, even after 40 years.
Ooorah.
LOL! I finally stopped having that one- but it was always like my fourth or fifth time standing on the dang yellow footprints. I think I was the only NCO in the group of recruits. :-)
I used to put on CNBC. Not anymore! aarg.
A good set o’ egyptian cotton is nice. $$$, but try it.
I’ve been either pregnant, nursing, or both since 1993. I’ll sleep when I’m dead.
She’s an enthusiastic exterminator. She loves to fight. Night after night, she gradually expanded her perimeter and improved her tactics. Until finally the monkeyrats gave up and moved on.
It was stressful for me because in the beginning I had a hard time convincing her that my directions were in both our best interests. Her strategy was to go after the noisiest one. My strategy was to predict the enemy’s ploy to draw her further away from my sleeping body and also to maintain a safe bubble around not only me, but around her unprotected backside.
Later I taught her to enlarge the monkey rat’s tunnels through my house so she could use them for her own serveilence of the property.
In the end she learned enough that I didn’t even need to telepathically give her any directions at all. She knew exactly how to deal with them. That’s when the dreams ended.
I think it's the other way around - he HAS three hours of airtime, so he says things more than once to fill the minutes. It probably also results in more listener retention, as the average person in his car, at work, or otherwise distracted doesn't catch everything if it's said only once.
That’s interesting that the dream ‘saved game’ and had a progression to it. Mine was just the same thing, over and over again.
Best sleep I ever got was while stationed in Panama in the barracks full of guys. Tiled roof and open screened windows without air conditioning........when it rained at night or in the day, depending on which swing shift I was working, it was lights out!
For women over 35: have your hormones checked. Bioidentical replacement works wonders for sleep.
For everyone: listening to talk radio. Even if it’s something interesting, you fall right asleep. And if you wake during the night, you do not start listing all the things you need to do the next day; you listen to the radio and fall right to sleep again.
I put “Sophies Choice” in the VCR.
Works every time!
You’re right, that is strange. It only lasted about a week. And I only remember parts of it.
I do remember the last and final part. When the monkeyrats were driven completely out of the house and the yard, they morphed into...first leopards, then lions. But it didn’t matter, my faithful dog was an expert tactician by then and knew how to draw them one by one into traps where they had no chance. They all ran away eventually.
It was kinda like a mirage. They weren’t really lions with lion abilities. They just had the look of them, but still with mere monkeyrat abilities.
there was also something about the corpses of the enemy. They were scared of their own dead. So I had her building walls and barricades out of the dead of their own.
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