[jyl]

I’m looking for some mental or behavioral solution. Like “counting sheep” but that doesn’t work for me. Some sort of meditation or suchlike.

I used to use an iOS Sleep App that reported my hours sleeping and in light or deep or REM sleep, gave me a score each night. That kind of worked, by gamifying sleep I was motivated to fall asleep faster. But after awhile the thrill of a high sleep score (hey, I have a boring life) wore off.

I sometimes put on calming music or ocean waves sounds. That helps but the tinny iPhone speaker gets me thinking hmm, the audio quality . . . I should hang some better speakers on the far wall, I have some extra Bose 901s, I could power with that spare NAD amp, and . . . soon my mind is racing again.

I’ve had a problem with waking up in the middle of the night for decades. It started when I was setting an alarm for 2 am to wake up and read the news from Asia then get another couple hours sleep before the market day started. I don’t need to do that anymore but seems I’ve screwed myself up. Currently my problem is I get into bed and scan the news - including from Asia - and then can’t stop thinking about whatever the yen or oil or futures are doing. I’ve tried to not do that, but then I lay awake wondering what is going on that I’m missing.