[Insomnia] Hope

Every MWF, Koei makes someone do a 3 min speech about anything they want. I think the purpose is to help us "nerds" develop our public speaking skills. For what? I'm not completely sure, but I'm not against the idea. I hate it when it's my turn, but I generally think it's a good idea. Anyway, on Friday someone talked about having trouble sleeping and her solutions to it!! How lucky for me :)

Her name's Keiko and it started happening around a month ago - same time she joined Koei (hmmmm). She has trouble falling asleep and she finds herself lying in bed for hours at a time. She also has my problem where she will wake up in the middle of the night because of random thoughts, but I think talking to her afterwards her thoughts pretty much centre around work related things.

Solutions! She's suggested sipping a bit of alcohol before going to sleep. lol. That's a good one, but I don't think I'll be trying that one. The one intriguing solution is this old folks' tale that her grandfather told her about. They believe that there are certain spirits that "haunt" you and are therefore preventing you from falling asleep. So in order to dispel these spirits you have to put something with a blade near you when you sleep (ie. a pair of scissors under your pillow). I'll let you know guys know how that works out ;)