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[merbabyd]

 I can't sleep, can't seem to quiet my mind long enough to relax and fall away. I have some amazing dreams, very vivid, intense, emotional. Through my life I've often woken myself laughing. A few times crying. Lots of time when I wake up I feel like I'm losing a friend, someone real who was/is important to me

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[saturncat888]

What helps me fall asleep, most consistently? You're going to laugh, but... when I was about 8, I was staying at my grandparents' house and I couldn't sleep because I wasn't in my room at home. Grandma came in and sat on the edge of my bed, and told me to think of my favorite things, happy things, things that made me feel good. So she helped me begin this litany of happy images... ballerinas and flowers and cats and butterflies and... and the next thing I know, I'm waking up in the morning.

And now, almost 30 years later? I still use this. My happy things are a little different now, but I still start the litany with ballerinas, just because.