Episode 55 - What Keeps Us up at Night?

Hello listeners! Whether you consider yourself an insomniac, a sound sleeper, or something in between, we’ve got an episode for you!

 

What keeps you up at night? When do you realize that you’re moving from deep slumber to begrudging consciousness? How do we even know whether or not we’re awake or asleep! We’ll tell ya, we sure can tell when we’re lying in bed unable to fall asleep! Does that ever happen to you? If so, we’d love to offer you this podcast episode! 

 

Originally, the thought for this one was, as the title suggests, are the things that keep us awake at night? Is it fear, anxiety, a task left undone, or something that you did that you regret, or something that made you angry? Perhaps it’s a big philosophical question about why we’re all here and the meaning of life as we know it. However, what Paul discovered about himself is that this isn’t really the question that applies to him. For Cheri, who once struggled with insomnia this question once haunted both her days and her nights.  These days, we both find, like perhaps many others that falling asleep isn’t the problem. Rather, what is it that keeps us awake when we wake up at 2AM? And what caused that awakening to happen in the first place? For some, that might be when the mind really spins a tale, which is what originally prompted Paul to have his rule, “never believe anything that your mind tells you in the middle of the night!” For others, like Cheri, it might be a sign that the brain’s finished stewing on some idea and is ready to move to problem-solving mode!

 

Are the anxieties that seem so loud when it’s dark and quiet really so important, or is it really that it’s just dark and quiet, and the mind does what the mind does? Fertile ground for curiosity, indeed! In this episode, we explore this topic with our experiences, and, as an added bonus, we compare fizzy water preferences and discover a few interesting things that make each of us rather uncomfortable! Hopefully, this episode doesn’t keep you up at night, but if you do find yourself awake, give it a listen!

 

Thanks all!

P + C

Related Episodes

If you’d like to explore this topic a little more with some previous episodes, please check out the following:

Episode 11: Resistance

Episode 23: Navigating Discomfort

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