What do you think about before you fall asleep?

Ever since I can remember, I've used the time before falling asleep to make up stories. Mostly fantasy/adventure, with increasingly sophisticated plot lines as I aged. I'm now thinking I should mine 30 years worth of stories and start writing novels. Look for them wherever Harlequins are sold!

I usually fall asleep to the sound of my SO's voice reading out loud to me....or just chatting about various things. It is so soothing.....I have no time to worry or replay or plan or anything because I am fully embracing her voice and drifting away.

All of the above, and then some.

my thoughts before sleep are so random, i can't pinpoint anything

Great survey! I've done most of these things at one time or another, but most of the time I think about all the things I have to be happy about. I suppose that sounds kind of cheesy, but it's true. Some nights I lie awake with a song I'm writing running though my head, but that hasn't happened for awhile. And some nights I fall asleep while reading.

My vote was your last choice for a very important reason. You see I am a lucid dreamer. And like one should plan ones activity for the day, the same applies for ones dream time otherwise its wasted..
..............................................................michael

I am plagued with great ideas which I usually forget later.

All of the above, except nothing.

It depends on the night and what happened that day, and what's happening the next day.

I think about when I'm going to fall asleep and just where is the point between waking and sleeping. Usually, I end up staying up all night asking myself "Am I asleep yet?"

A few of these... I should qualify "images" 'cuz I don't do visual imagery, but I often do the equivalent for other sensory modes... hearing voices, for example, or the harder-to-describe sensory experience of "presence."

I pet the cat, roll over, and conk out.

eris - I've never heard it called "petting the cat" before...

It would make more sense for a woman, I think. :)

Hmmm... If that's "petting the cat," then what's "snogging the cat?"

Ummmm.... maybe that involves someone else's cat?

"Mom, when I die, is it forever?"
"Yes, Rocky."
"Mom, when I die, is it forever and ever?"
"Yes, Rocky."
"Mom, when I die, is it forever and ever and ever?"
"Yes, Rocky."
"Mom, when I die, is it forever and ever and ever and ever?"
"Yes, Rocky."
...

I THINK ABOUT HOW I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO GET A SUFFICIENT AMOUNT OF SLEEP.

dpolicar WHAT WOULD YOU CALL IT IF IT ISN'T PETTING THE CAT?

bluebird1974 - DID YOU KNOW THAT USING ALL CAPITALS IS CONSIDERED KIND OF LIKE SHOUTING? You may know that, but you may not, so I figured I'd tell you.....

I do know that but I was yelling I was excited sorry if I offended you.

calm down...snogging the cat means "making out with" the cat...or kissing the pussy ;)...and I should know...

bluebird1974 - no offense taken! I just feel that it took me so long to learn all the little nuances to nettiquette that I like to pass them on if I think it'll help someone pick them up any quicker than I did.

I think about my true love...*sigh*...:)...and I think about how beautiful life is..then I usually get bored and start to count sheep. LOL. j/k.

Lately I have been thinking about my father.

Care to tell us why?

nope.

I obsess over the boy I'm currently in love with.

PANDORA : There you go Pandora. Something to be happy about !!!

But I can't be happy about that either, Wicksy, because I don't know how he feels about me.

Pandora : Ask him in person and using your instinctive powers, you will find out by the way he says it. I call it a " psychic photo of one's expression ". There is so much you can discover by one's expression and tone of voice, it's amazing !!!

Wicksy: strange as it may seem, some people are only happy when they are truly miserable.

I need my misery.

TWISTERMINE : Great film !!!

I guess Stephen King is suffering his own misery these days. Has anybody heard how he's recovering from his accident?

It completely varies. Anything from, "Oh crap, I forgot to go to the bank!" to "Ah, I really enjoyed doing ____ today."

I think about nothing at all if I actually want to achieve sleep. If I let one little thought about the future, even if it's something as mundane as an errand I have the next day, into the blissful void of my preslumberous mind, any hopes I have of getting a good night's sleep are blown.

**SueBee: He was released from the hospital last Friday.

Thanks, Daver. Lots of rehab ahead, I suppose.

I wonder if his next novel will be a hospital-horror tome...

Or one about stupid drivers getting eaten by their pet dogs? :)

*clapping* and stupid drivers spilling searing hot coffee in their laps and getting electrocuted by their car phones

LOL LOL LOL

Plan dreams & meditation voyages.

sex...yum

That time before falling asleep is my happiest time. :)

I also have this really annoying habit of imagining, like, a stack of pancakes, and then I cut them in half and stack up the halves and then I cut that stack in half and stack up those halves and it keeps going and going and going. Those are the nights I usually can't sleep.

It depends on whether I need to get to sleep or if I'm in bed early. I try not to make plans because then I never get to sleep, but if I'm in bed early it's okay. If I'm desperate to get to sleep and I can't, then I list things starting with each letter of the alphabet (I think that's why I win at Scattergories) until I fall asleep. I hardly ever make it past H.

I plan my next move for getting the person I like to notice me and like me. It is a nightly ritual. I have come up with some really funny ones.

All of the above...

Warm happy thoughts and making up stories