I paint murals of the night sky (very realistic ones) that are only visible when the lights are off, and the room is dark. He lives on a guest ranch for high-profile people and while I painted the rooms there… we had the place to ourselves. When I finished painting his bedroom ceiling, I went back to enjoy the ranch with my wife and kids… but expected to see my customer later that night. He never showed. It wasn’t until the next morning that we saw him at about 10 AM. He came over to visit us and told me that he had laid down under the night sky (I’d blacked out the windows to show him the mural during the day and left them blacked out) at about 5 PM the evening before to enjoy the view of the night sky in his room… but had fallen asleep within about 20 minutes. He then said that he woke up at about midnight, used the restroom and then went back to bed. After looking into the night sky mural again… he fell right back to sleep. Then, at 5 AM, when he normally woke up, the other workers on the ranch didn’t see him. They looked everywhere for him… but he was still in bed sleeping (He said that he never used an alarm because he always woke up at 5 AM). Well, he told us that he’d slept in until 8 AM, something that he had never done before. And, he was amazed at how easy it was for him to fall asleep the night before.

I heard back from him about a month after painting the mural for him… and he said that he was still falling asleep really easily.

Now, to you… you don’t need to get a professional mural painted… but you might want to try putting up some of those cheesy stick-on stars so that you can focus on something while in bed. I have to listen to some kind of talk radio at night so that i can focus and let my mind relax. If talk radio isn’t for you… then maybe you can go for some nature sounds or something like that to go with the plastic stars. Or, look into someone painting your ceiling for you. They are very relaxing and there are people all over who can do it. some, much better than others. You can even have a small poster-sized painting done (which you can stick up on your ceiling) that will look like a window into space.

Anyway… this is a story of how the night sky murals helped one insomniac (actually the murals have helped many), but there may be something totally different that will work for you. Good luck!

Jeff
http://www.NightSkyMurals.com

I am glad you got some rest this weekend…hopefully your body will get back in a normal sleep pattern now – good luck!

All I can say is that we both live in the Boston area so call me next time you can’t sleep — my closests could really use some organzing! Hee hee