Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for April 11, 2021

I keep getting that feeling JJ has been peeking again.

What you need is some white noise.

I self described myself to a doctor as a restless sleeper, based on the topsheets getting pulled out of the mattress each morning. The doctor returned with, so you’re a tosser. The way he said it, I don’t think he knew the British slang version of the word. Or maybe he did, and was cleverly dissing me thinking I didn’t.

When Big Ben failed to chime one midnight, thousands of Londoners awoke and said, “What’s that?”

At least she is in touch with what Arlo is going through.

My world and welcome to it. The older you get, the less sleep you get.

There are times when my wife is sleeping very quietly and I have the sudden urge to reach out to make sure she’s still breathing. Then there are the times I reach out to get her to change position so that it will be quiet.

Connubial symbiosis.

Trying to figure out if I have to nap because I don’t sleep well or I don’t sleep well because I take a nap. The answer is different if start collecting data at 7 am or 7 pm.

Oh, Janis!

Speak for yourself. I am 67 and fall asleep quickly. Maybe the fact that I never nap during the day may be the reason why.

My thrashing around at night doesn’t wake up my wife, unless I start cursing about not being able to sleep.

I’ll give it upwards of 30 minutes and then get out of bed and go downstairs to read so I don’t disturb the wife.

After sex, it is easier to fall asleep.

Some nights my “fitness band” records lots of steps, way beyond the distance to the “necessary room”. I’m guessing vigorous tossing. Haven’t set a trail-cam up to see what moves yet, but it did occur to me.

I found a way to get to sleep when it is eluding me. I breathe deliberately, long, deep breaths. Inhaling, I think of a color – say, orange. Exhaling I imagine a field of flowers in that color. Orange poppies. Blue bluebells. Red roses. Green flowers. Within a few minutes I am asleep. I think the short bursts of conscious thought coming up with a color and a flower, interspersed with thoughtless calm images, does the trick.

I’m reminded of my Mother in her later years. An avid reader all her life, she quickly got into a routine of keeping a book by her bed as she would wake at the same time in the middle of the night with the “I can’t go back to sleep” issue. She read for an hour exactly and was then ready to sleep again. Worked for her anyway.

This is more honest, Arlo.

I called Bs on the strip where Janis is lying awake worrying at 3 am, but Arlo is laying there smugly thinking about not getting up in the morning, so he wasn’t stressed that he couldn’t sleep.

Me, last night…

The number of times I wake up at 4:30 am is highly annoying. If I am lucky I can roll over & doze a bit

One day I was so tired after work that when I came home I took off my clothes and got into bed. I was home alone. Later when I woke up and looked at the clock, I panicked because I thought I had over slept and thought it was the next morning. After that, I only took naps in my recliner.

This Sunday both Arlo and Frank of “Luann” talk about their sleep problems. Interesting.

She is used to his tossing and turning. When he stops, shew knows something is wrong. My wife told me this about myself until I got my C-PAP.

The less sleep we get affects our brains in a negative way. Less REM.

Well, since we’re both awake…

The telepathy still works

What I have done for me is shut the world off in my head. Try to zone out and think empty your mind or open your mind , breath easy. And I am usually out. The only time I do have to get up and go stand over the can if I drink excess amount of soda. Try to make it like that half man/alien dude in “Total Recall” movie with Arnold schwarzenegger where the half alien says those lines from the movie.

Psst…. Arlo Wake mama up too :-) Hint Hint