If I start thinking about things that happened that day, or things I have to do tomorrow, I just start to dwell and obsess, and I can't get to sleep. Next thing you know, I'm up making a list or cleaning out the refrigerator. That just does NOT work for me.
I think of one of two things to get to sleep. First, I will think about my "dream future" ... where I will live, what my house will be like, what pets I will have, etc. Of course, it's not going to happen, most likely, but it's relaxing.
Or I start thinking about everyone I care about, pets included, and I think of them warm and safe and sleeping in their beds, one by one.
"We give dogs the time we can spare, the space we can spare and the love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made" - M. Facklam
"We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."- P.S. Beagle
"All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king." - J.R.R. Tolkien
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