go to bed

[Chestertonian]

Slowed breathing.  REM sleep.  Dark room.  Soothing muscles.  Fading discomforts. 

A time for retreat.  A time for a break.  A time for healing the mind and body.

Sleep.  Oh welcome sleep.  Those hours when I can take a break from the grind, and from daily crosses. Oh blessed sleep, which renews my energy and spirit.

Good night princes and princesses of Suscipe Domine.   

Sounds wonderful.. I could use soothed muscles right now

[Lynne]

Open for business. You can rant, or complain,  cry, whine, swear....just no F bombs, and no using the Lord's name inappropriately. Other than that...hit me. Oh and if you can please post a gnite pic, I will be very grsteful.

Too late! I was already in bed asleep by 9:53 pm... Dull, dull, dull.

[dymphna17]

Open for business. You can rant, or complain,  cry, whine, swear....just no F bombs, and no using the Lord's name inappropriately. Other than that...hit me. Oh and if you can please post a gnite pic, I will be very grsteful.

Too late! I was already in bed asleep by 9:53 pm... Dull, dull, dull.

Don't you mean too early?  Just kidding. Are you a light sleeper?

[Lynne]

Open for business. You can rant, or complain,  cry, whine, swear....just no F bombs, and no using the Lord's name inappropriately. Other than that...hit me. Oh and if you can please post a gnite pic, I will be very grsteful.

Too late! I was already in bed asleep by 9:53 pm... Dull, dull, dull.

Don't you mean too early?  Just kidding. Are you a light sleeper?

Am I a light sleeper? Not the first few hours...then,  after midnight I may wake up, look at the clock and then usually go right back to sleep.

[Carleendiane]

Open for business. You can rant, or complain,  cry, whine, swear....just no F bombs, and no using the Lord's name inappropriately. Other than that...hit me. Oh and if you can please post a gnite pic, I will be very grsteful.

Too late! I was already in bed asleep by 9:53 pm... Dull, dull, dull.

Don't you mean too early?  Just kidding. Are you a light sleeper?

Am I a light sleeper? Not the first few hours...then,  after midnight I may wake up, look at the clock and then usually go right back to sleep.

Many times I wil, sleep soundly until 3 or 4. Wake up, and spend the rest of the night tossing and turning and no matter what, I can't go back to sleep. Then, i may get lucky and doze between 7 and 8am. I only know this because I'll remember strange little dreams!

[MundaCorMeum]

Open for business. You can rant, or complain,  cry, whine, swear....just no F bombs, and no using the Lord's name inappropriately. Other than that...hit me. Oh and if you can please post a gnite pic, I will be very grsteful.

Too late! I was already in bed asleep by 9:53 pm... Dull, dull, dull.

Don't you mean too early?  Just kidding. Are you a light sleeper?

Am I a light sleeper? Not the first few hours...then,  after midnight I may wake up, look at the clock and then usually go right back to sleep.

Many times I wil, sleep soundly until 3 or 4. Wake up, and spend the rest of the night tossing and turning and no matter what, I can't go back to sleep. Then, i may get lucky and doze between 7 and 8am. I only know this because I'll remember strange little dreams!

I do the same, except more like wake around 2 a.m. , then doze between 5 and 7. 

[christulsa]

Open for business. You can rant, or complain,  cry, whine, swear....just no F bombs, and no using the Lord's name inappropriately. Other than that...hit me. Oh and if you can please post a gnite pic, I will be very grsteful.

Too late! I was already in bed asleep by 9:53 pm... Dull, dull, dull.

Don't you mean too early?  Just kidding. Are you a light sleeper?

Am I a light sleeper? Not the first few hours...then,  after midnight I may wake up, look at the clock and then usually go right back to sleep.

Many times I wil, sleep soundly until 3 or 4. Wake up, and spend the rest of the night tossing and turning and no matter what, I can't go back to sleep. Then, i may get lucky and doze between 7 and 8am. I only know this because I'll remember strange little dreams!

Have you ever tried timed-released Melatonin?  I still need to restock Melatonin, thinking to try the timed-released kind.  Something I read said its good for sleeping the whole night.  When I took Ambien for a month--which I do not recommend unless you absolutely need it--I'd wake up in the middle of the night wide awake and couldn't get back to sleep.  Now I may toss and turn a bit.

Perevangelica is the resident sleep expert. She suggested eating a high protein/fat snack before bedtime.  Keeps the blood sugars more stable during the night, low blood sugar being one thing that wakes people up around 3 or 4 in the am.

[Carleendiane]

Going to get some of that time release kind. Just makes sense.

Wow Chris, you did my job for me! You cracked this thread wide opem! And now that it is open, come on in my fellow bedheads. Are you ready to rumble? I am just ready to tumble, right into bed to tell the truth. But come on, I'll pour you some wine.

[Carleendiane]

Think about this...just think about it. If you don't go to bed.....you can't get out of bed. Getting out of bed is an often overlooked act of penance. Really  it is. You have something, upon opening your eyes, to offer up.... getting out of bed!
Getting out of bed is HARD work for some of us. Getting in bed is required for getting out of bed, you see? So go to bed. Not now of course but at the appropriate time. Then you can get up. And just think if you don't GO to bed, you can't enjoy your coffee, when you get OUT of bed. Just sayin....

[christulsa]

As you read this.

Your eyelids are growing heavy..
Your breathing is slowing down...
Your heart rate is lowering.....
Your mind is becoming melow.....
Your aches and pains are melting away......

The bed beckons.
The lights want to be turned down.
The pillow is fluffed, the sheets are fresh
The bedroom is now dark and quiet

Prayers said
Tomorrow's to-do-list checked
A slice of avocado and turkey eaten
Melatonin, magnesium, and Valerian root taken

Time to go to bed
To let the mind and body heal once again
After one more day meriting heaven
Until tomorrow we do it again

[Carleendiane]

Open now! Open and ready for all bed heads here. Even if you do not consider yourself a bed head, you are. Yes, sad but true. We are a race of bedheads. Truth. It's a proven fact. OK. So you sleep on a futon. Ok. Then I guess you are a futon head. But deep down, I think you know ....you are of the bedhead tribe. I mean....you haven't always slept on  a futon. Cheer up. It's not a nasty thing to be a bedhead. We've had some remarkable bedhead warrors. General Patton was a bedhead.

[maryslittlegarden]

Bedhead is my look

[Carleendiane]

It can be a very good look. Looks better than a long time nonsleeper. Sorry Dymphna. That's a good look too, if you're fond of zombies. Now the zombie look is going out of fashion and the bedhead look is in.

[dymphna17]

We're ready when you all are (even though I slept until 6:00  )

[Carleendiane]

We're ready when you all are (even though I slept until 6:00  )

Seen that pic before and laugh each time, part baby zombie, part bedhead. Who are his parents. Must see! Thanks for the laugh and pic Dymph. Is your bedhead ancestry showing itself tonight?