Late Nights
The carol singing concert our younger daughter was singing in ran on 40 minutes later than expected, and our older daughter was then frantically finishing homework when she was so tired she could hardly speak let alone write, so last night was late again.
Still, at least I now know that the story that I don't sleep well if I go to bed late (as mentioned in yesterday's post) isn't true. As usual I fell asleep listening to the I Can Make You Sleep CD only to wake up as it looped back round to the warning not to drive or operate machinery. This warning always slightly amuses me, since it also says you should listen to it in bed before you fall asleep. I'm not in the habit of driving in my bed!
Day/Night 12 of Paul McKenna's I Can Make You Sleep Program
There's not much to say. I sat up with my daughter, supporting her to get through the homework, just listening as she thought about what she had to write. It was well after midnight by the time she finished and got to bed, and she felt tense and unable to sleep, so I explained one of the exercises from the book to her - one in which you simply notice and silently describe to yourself whatever is in your mind. McKenna explains that this exercise was developed because of work being done by Dr Win Wenger. Dr Wenger researches into ways to increase intelligence, and in one exercise he developed people describe aloud the stream of images that go through our minds. But when his team of researchers tried this exercise by silently describing what they saw, they couldn't stay awake. And this interested McKenna. I explained all this to my daughter; she tried the exercise and soon felt calmer.
It was after half past twelve when I got to bed, but after that awakening at the end of the CD I slept through the night.
Still, at least I now know that the story that I don't sleep well if I go to bed late (as mentioned in yesterday's post) isn't true. As usual I fell asleep listening to the I Can Make You Sleep CD only to wake up as it looped back round to the warning not to drive or operate machinery. This warning always slightly amuses me, since it also says you should listen to it in bed before you fall asleep. I'm not in the habit of driving in my bed!
Day/Night 12 of Paul McKenna's I Can Make You Sleep Program
There's not much to say. I sat up with my daughter, supporting her to get through the homework, just listening as she thought about what she had to write. It was well after midnight by the time she finished and got to bed, and she felt tense and unable to sleep, so I explained one of the exercises from the book to her - one in which you simply notice and silently describe to yourself whatever is in your mind. McKenna explains that this exercise was developed because of work being done by Dr Win Wenger. Dr Wenger researches into ways to increase intelligence, and in one exercise he developed people describe aloud the stream of images that go through our minds. But when his team of researchers tried this exercise by silently describing what they saw, they couldn't stay awake. And this interested McKenna. I explained all this to my daughter; she tried the exercise and soon felt calmer.
It was after half past twelve when I got to bed, but after that awakening at the end of the CD I slept through the night.
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