This is something I've always struggled with, how to quiet my mind and get to sleep in a timely fashion. Reading is good, but at some point I have to turn off the light. Usually that's enough to wake me back up and get back to the tossing and turning. Also, I often will drop the book, lose my place, and so forth. It's messy.
Last week over at View from the Porch / aka booksbikesboomsticks, Tam posted a link to the NYT Mag about how a remarkably high percentage of people use the BBC's Shipping Forecast get to sleep in Britain. I suppose it works if you're within radio range. On this side of the pond however, Coast to Coast AM is my go-to sleep remedy. Nothing like a good ghost story to sooth the senses. It helps to have a radio with a one hour shut-off timer, because you don't want to have the show's second segment segue into a discussion of, say, exorcism while you brain is forming its own dreamlands.
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