Sanguine Tenacious Tidings

To Sleep or ??

Talk Tuesday! What do you do when you can't sleep?

Most of the time I read. I always have more than one book handy so I can reach out to a night stand to pick one. I can't read just one type of book at a time. Usually, I am part way through a fiction and part way through a nonfiction so I can pick according to what I feel like reading. This is because I have a fire HD and a Kindle White. Both, are stocked with books waiting to be read. I also read the bible, and books about religions of all kinds.

In the last few years I have also stocked some unconventional music and sounds. I find classical guitar can be soothing. Zen Garden music, Tibetan Bowls, and Jewish Cantor Music actually bring calm to our household. If I can find sounds that resonate with my brain it drives out other thoughts that, maybe nothing more than, just meaningless noise.

Sleep has never been a real problem, there is just to much every day busyness along with regular exercise. I usually sleep well. Unless I'm having a bout of sleep deprivation where sounds in the night wake me at regular intervals several nights in a span of time.

Presently reading The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi, Under Fire by Fred Burton and Samuel M Katz.

Quote: "a bed may mean a place of rest for someone who sleeps well, for someone who rarely sleeps it may be a place of torment." From: Dreams and Visions by Kenneth Jackson