lay me down to sleep...

Just how do people fall asleep? What do they think about? Do they review their day's events or plan the next day's course? Do they sing themselves to sleep? Or think of their favourite places and things, and then using their imagination, transport themselves there?
I can't sleep. I mean, I can't fall asleep. Once I eventually fall asleep, I'm fine. But the time in between awake and asleep, for me, is think and deep, marred with peril, like a DMZ riddled with landmines.

I seem to come awake at night, my mind floods with ideas the minute I get into bed and try to sleep. It never fails. As a result, I'm not much of a morning person. My bouts of nocturnal energy, if followed through, can safely see me through to dawn and well into the next day. The day in turn, unless fraught with activity and not one moment of stillness, will be fine. But give me half an hour of silence in the hustle of the day, and I might just doze off on you.

I swear, sometimes these vampire tendencies scare me. The sun, I have come to conclude, somehow saps me of my energy, leaving me weak and sleepy. In the dead of night, when all other things sleep and seek rest, I think and labor on without a pause.

So I lay in bed. After an hour of trying to fake sleep. Apparently, the saying 'fake it till you make it' may apply to having faith or to the first weak on the job, but it simply doesn't work for sleeping. So I'm still trying to sleep, and in doing so start thinking about how people generally fall asleep. Do they make lists in their head and tick them off? Do they congratulate or bemoan the endeavours of the ended day and plot out glory for tomorrow?

Do they pray? Thanking God for the blessings of the day and the hope of the next? Do they think of family and friends? What do people think about as they shift around looking for a comfortable spot? As they close their eyes and exhale wakefulness away and ending the day. What do they think?