Avid Naked Readers
For those who love to read, either old fashioned paper books ( and my preferred way) or the new fangled ebooks. There was a book reading nudist group at one time but i have not found any trace of it. So this will fill the void.
- created by noodengr2
do you read yourself to sleep?
Return to DiscussionsFor as long as I can remember I don't fall asleep for the night without reading. Sometimes it is only a few pages, other times I can lay there and read for hours. My mind naturally races and until I concentrate on one thing, a book, my mind will not shut down to sleep. Anyone else cursed with such mind games?
On a related note, there are topics if I come across in a book, I know will not allow me to sleep. Anything that has a person in a claustrophobic situation. A guy describing his personal experience packed in a railroad car during the Holocaust or a captive in a trunk of a car in a thriller book. Etc. I will put it aside and pick up a book without that in it. What topics keep you awake?
What topics keep me awake? Not reading topics, unless you count reading mail. Anything that I perceive as a threat to my budget or finances.
My insomnia comes and goes, and reading is not a cure when it is here, nor a necessity when it is not. On the contrary, I try to avoid reading when I want to sleep, because it annoys me to lose track of the thread as the drowsiness comes on. Also, I really hate it when a book has been left open face down, and forever afterwards it always tries to open to that page. So falling asleep and letting the book fall on your chest is a no-no with me.
I always keep something to read beside the bed. Usually it's a very serious book that I know I won't have time to read elsewhere. Right now, for example, I'm finishing up Gibbons' "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Next up, I think, will be Churchill's six-volume history of WWII. History and philosophy works like these help to settle my mind for sleep.