Okay so reading these... thinking about things, and fantasizing about what you're gonna dream about keeps people up? That's kinda what I do to fall asleep.... I start running a story through my head or a fantasy where I'm on some sort of adventure and within 20 minutes I usually fall asleep.
How do most people fall asleep then? Do they just stare at the ceiling until they fall asleep??? O-O
Things that have usually kept me up at night would be things that have scared me. When I was like ten I read about Wendigos in my Haunted Canada book and that spooked me to the point where I stayed up until like 3am because I thought I had to guard the house in case Wendigos came to hypnotize my parents into becoming cannibals. Eventually when I felt the threat of sleep I ran into my parent's room crying about the Wendigos until my mom calmed me down by pointing out all the flaws in the stories, debunking them.
Another time when I was like 15 I had troubles sleeping for about a week because I had urges to gouge my own eyes out.... yeah that was not fun...
Nowadays its usually little things, like if it's a particularly windy night, what if a tree falls on the house?
Or that one time I got sick for the first time in like 6 years, what if some one poisoned me?
And then when the lady who lives in the basement had a party, I got scared that someone would steal my Doc Marleys which were sitting in the shared entrance way. I ended up getting up and pacing around the house until I decided to retrieve the boots and stow them safely away in my room. But then a few party goers had decided to go outside for a smoke and they were taking forever to get their coats and shoes on, so I ended up eavesdropping on them for like 10 minutes until they finally went outside, giving me the time window I needed to dart into the entrance way to get my boots and go back inside without anyone seeing me.
