Here are my "not-a-doctor" thoughts on trying to sleep
- Keep a sleep journal next to your bed. If you wake up in the middle of the night thinking about work/relationships/groceires, etc etc ... Write those thoughts down and promise your brain that you will review your notes in the morning. For me, that allows me to convince my brain that those "brilliant" ideas will be examined properly at a later date.
- Meditation
2a) Here's my twist on meditation.... I collide two fantasy universes into my "zen". From the Star Trek world ... remember that they would go into warp for hours and hours and hours ... with the stars blurring by constantly while the crew wanders around the deck.
2b) But instead of being in the big bulky Enterprise, you are in an X-Wing with R2 as your navigator. You have complete control, there is no threat, you are going to that planet that makes you happy. You can perform slow rolls, , sometimes you need to slowly bank to maintain your central position in the hyperspace wormhole. But it's all simple, calming and belongs to you. You've got nothing but time and if you need to talk, R2 is always listening.
- If you wake up in the middle of the night, don't worry about not being able to sleep. If you find yourself worrying about not being able to sleep, that can prevent you from sleeping ... You can function perfectly fine on 6 hours of sleep. It will not affect your health. -you might need a little more caffeine tomorrow, but it's not something you should concern yourself about. Also, many times, when you think you've been awake for the past 3 hours, you actually dozed off, then re-awoke being unaware that you had fallen asleep.
These are in no way advise .... they are just ideas/concepts that help me.
I love it! Lol.
The journal idea seems like it could bear some fruit. Do you find yourself using it often?
I keep a pad of graph paper ... most mornings, when I look at it, I wrote gibberish on it. (Makes me think that my strategy is working). But, in the beginning, I'd often fire off an email before I had breakfast based on what I'd written. It all depends on what's rampaging through your mind that's keeping you awake.
Lol. I can just imagine waking up and seeing the nighttime scribbles from being half asleep.
This morning, I had. P.A.M.
I'm having issues virtualizing a server from around 2000. Last night, after I'd went to bed, I thought that I should look at the Pluggable Authentication Module on the virtual server. Since, back in the late 90's, early 00's, you could use rlogin, rsh, and rexec. But these methods were replaced by ssh (which is also 100% more secure AND encrypted). I rarely have to look at the PAM rules since I don't play in that sandbox any more.
The paragraph above would have rampaged my brain and prevented sleep ... but jotting down. P.A.M. was enough to satisfy it that the issue would be managed in the morning.
The good news is ... while looking on Google, I might be heading in the right direction. (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/340088/enabling-rsh-rlogin-with-pam-in-amazon-linux)
Now to get some more coffee and do some reading. ;-)
Since I’m a dumb human…I had to reread this a couple of times. Lol.
I’m so not computer savvy so it takes a moment to compute.
This reminds me of the awful notetaking I partake in when we play D&D. I jot random shit down with 0 context and then when we come back to it weeks later, I’m like P.A.M….what the fuck is that?!?
Lol
hehehe. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that anything written in the notebook has a shelf life of less than 24 hours. After that, it morph's into Klingon. If you don't speak Klingon, then:
"ma qel seng"
LOL
Every new D&D game, my buddy Bill and I laugh at my previous session's "notes" as we try to decipher the very foreign writings like you mentioned.