Message from brain at 2:00 a.m.:

[jujube]

Ralph Waldo Emerson (I think it was him but it could have been another great wordsmith) had a dream that he was standing in a Greek amphitheater, orating to hundreds of people. He pronounced some line of such transcendental and haunting prose that the entire audience started to weep with shock and awe and joy and rend their robes and throw laurel wreathes at him or whatever they did in Greek amphitheaters when someone hit it out of the ballpark.

He leapt out of bed, grabbing paper and pen and ink to write down this piece of deathless prose. When he awoke the next morning and remembered his dream, he was most eager to see what he had written. It was "O, come see the deer, big-hearted Oro!" Yep, that's going to go down in the history of great literature.....

Me? I write myself such wonderous notes in the middle of the night such as "DON'T FORGET!" or even more informative, "DON'T FORGET THAT THING!" On occasion, it's "DON'T FORGET TO CALL!" Call who? Mr. Thing?

 

[Gary O']

Me? I write myself such wonderous notes in the middle of the night such as "DON'T FORGET!"

That beats the heck outa 'CLIPS!!'

 

[peramangkelder]

I guess I'm not the only one that cursed 2:00 am demon follows around.

Nope @RadishRose the 2:00am Demon and occasionally the 4:00am Demon are alive and well and in South Australia

 

[grahamg]

I am so, so envious!

Maybe its the age related brain fade I'm arguably experiencing makes the difference, as I'm probably sleeping as well as I did as a young man, (though having to wake occasionally for other as related reasons!). .

 

[Ruthanne]

Give it a go, tell him to ring you five minutes or so before normal bedtime, make polite excuses about being tired or your mobile reception being weak, when you've stood as much as necessary to generate near or impeding narcolepsy, and if it a success organise a repeat dose the next evening! .

I really don't want to talk with him that often...depressing

 

[grahamg]

I really don't want to talk with him that often...depressing

I do know just how depressing such conversations can be, but how about this, "try it once", and record his voice and boring conversation. If it works in terms of getting off to sleep, you can then listen to the sleep inducing talk again, without having to ring them to hear the same boring things directly!
I can see some flaws in the plan, as the guy might get the wrong idea, were you to ring him, and keep contacting you, whilst failing to understand how boring he is, and why you rang him, (can't see a way round that problem, unless he just happens to ring, and you're ready to record his voice?). .

 

[peramangkelder]

I am quite possibly one of the world's worst insomniacs due to my mind working overtime at night
I use a Lectrofan White Noise Machine just like the one pictured and at least that helps me get some rest

 

[fuzzybuddy]

At 3:00 AM, your brain is active, with just the right amount of sleep to be awake and so that you will be dragging by 8 AM. This is the time you ponder the great questions of the universe, like, "if the rotation of the earth slows, how will that affect shark week"?