Well, maybe except for those live-human-interaction kinds of excitements that you mostly only get when you’re awake and functioning concurrently with the rest of your local humanity.

The more wee small hours you spend on line, the fewer daylight hours you get amongst the people. It’s a simple trade.

that are the eventual price for movement into the virtual world.

We were laughing about it a few years ago and he said he still keeps a copy in his nightstand because its the only foolproof method he’s ever found to be asleep in 15 minutes or less.

Old movies do the trick for me.

In my younger days, I often stayed up most of the night, which was handy for schoolwork left undone until the deadline, but not good otherwise. Since I always worked during my school years, there were some rough days.

I sleep very well these days, mostly because of the extremely fortunate presence of my wife, and a reasonably healthy and happy family.

I used to sit up and read all night, but now it’s a sure fire method of getting sleepy, with a few exceptions for the really good books that come along only rarely.

Anyone who truly struggles with insomnia has my sympathy—there’s nothing worse than being wide awake at 4 AM when your whole body and mind longs desperately for sleep.

Which is called something or other but I don’t think it’s insomnia.

in (not) + somnus (sleep)
Plain and simple.
No need to assume psychiatry’s (or poli-sci’s) subsequent awe ful “usage” abuses.

Along with (ie)food stamps, the whole Bread and Circuses thing is covered- all without the whole
icky employment-of-”educated”-colluseum-builders/maintainers/entertainersthingy.

In other words, the “insomnia” I talk about is a major cause of … insomnia.