Smarter Sleeping 101

This week’s Insomnia Story comes from Jenny Lim of islandpacket.com.  Jenny took the Great American Sleep Challenge and discovered that she was in need of serious sleep help.  Check out the excerpt and read the rest here:

“My lack of sleep is frequently the result of my own choices, most of which revolve around my love of to-do lists, or more specifically, my love of checking stuff off my to-do list. I’ll stay up late for the bizarre joy of knowing I’ve finished all the laundry. I’ll get up early for the freakish satisfaction of thinking I didn’t waste over-ripe bananas because I was able to bake them into a loaf of freshly made banana bread. (Sometimes, I’ll write down tasks I’ve finished, just so I can check them off. Yes, I’m that girl.)”

This week’s insomnia story comes from Wendy Carlyle, and has something to do with colon cleansing…

“I was just about to get in the car and drive up to Walgreens and buy some sleep aid when it started raining, and I mean raining, so I decided to stay in the house. I don’t want to be walking around a drugstore at 2 in the morning anyway.

So I stayed in bed and watched TV until all hours. I didn’t mind the Letterman and Craig Ferguson shows, but after that, it all goes downhill. There was a cop show and then some science fiction show and then another cop show and then the infomercials started.

How in the world can someone find enough stuff to write about colon cleansing to take an entire 30 minutes? And how many people set their TV or make a point to wake up and watch a show at 3:30 in the morning to learn about the benefits of a Colon Cleanse treatment?”

Read the rest here.

This week’s insomnia story comes from Jenny Lim of Island Packet.  Her take on the Nation Sleep Foundation’s games and quizzes created for The Great American Sleep Challenge.  Check out the excerpt below:

“My lack of sleep is frequently the result of my own choices, most of which revolve around my love of to-do lists, or more specifically, my love of checking stuff off my to-do list. I’ll stay up late for the bizarre joy of knowing I’ve finished all the laundry. I’ll get up early for the freakish satisfaction of thinking I didn’t waste over-ripe bananas because I was able to bake them into a loaf of freshly made banana bread. (Sometimes, I’ll write down tasks I’ve finished, just so I can check them off. Yes, I’m that girl.)”

Read the rest.