Tuesday, August 22, 2006

"secondhand insomnia" and why zac is great

last night for the second nite in a row i was having trouble sleeping. zac hates in when i can't sleep cuz that makes him not sleep (secondhand insomnia as he put it). after i'd been laying there for a couple hours (i probably should have got up and read or something by that point but the bed was warm, the house was cold) zac realized he wasn't going to sleep either unless he got me to sleep. i'd already gone through one of my instrumental cds twice and that didn't work. zac asked if i thought if he played guitar that might help. i was willing to try it (and i think he figured playing it would get him relaxed to sleep too). he got up and got one of his acoustics and sat on the end of the bed for probably 15 min softly picking at the guitar. almost immediately my brain slowed down and i got to a relaxed state by the time he put the guitar down and came back to bed. it worked really well. i felt bad that i kept him up though (and he kinda had to put me to sleep) cuz he had to get up less than 6 hrs later for work but i slept for another 3 hours after that.

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