After a Thousand Counted Sheep, I Tried Something Else
A long-term insomniac's late-night record: falling asleep, without the struggle.
She had tried melatonin, white noise, bedtime yoga and locking the phone in a drawer. The insomnia still reported in nightly, on time. At its worst she lay watching the ceiling go from black to grey. A friend forwarded her our late-night page: go — let your body be talked to sleep first.
The night room's light was lowered to just enough, the music low as a murmur. She soaked in a hot bath, steam laced with a faint woody scent. The therapist kept her voice pressed soft, as if afraid of waking something. The body care moved even slower than the day shift's, warm palms spreading temperature through the blanket, degree by degree.
She said she 'powered down' somewhere in the second half — no struggle, no sheep; consciousness receded like a tide going out on its own. She woke nearly an hour later, mouth dry, to find a warm drink already waiting in the rest area, kept hot for her.
On the drive home she didn't turn on music. The sleepiness felt old and natural — the kind from childhood, after playing hard all day.
The night session is a weekly fixture now. Insomnia, she says, doesn't get 'cured' — but she finally has a place that can lead her back to sleep.
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