you're right. like i said i only try, they are difficult, which makes me feel i'll be like this for a long time. :(

Relaxing techniques takes imagination realy. Imagining that you're melting like an egg is one of the ways. For me it takes effort, and getting into the mood and calming down and all.

Sometime when I'm in bed (or somewhere alone) I predent to have a conversation with someone about anything, and asking myself questions, coming up with ideas and answers. A habit I like falling into.

Hrm...I plan stories plots...what can I say, I'm a born writer. :D Most of my best ideas appear before I go to sleep. :D

I've tried many relaxation techniques, but I've only discovered that soothing music and incense gives me a headache.
The one spot I can really get my calm on is in water. Tub, pool, jacuzi, whatever. It is a bit on the dangerous side though, I have a tendency to nod off in rising water.

I'm exactly the same way! I can spend hours writing and drawing my ideas when I go to bed!

....Which explains why I'm always so tired and grouchy....

I'm the same. Apparantly it's something to do with you being closer to your subconcious which is something to do with your creativity.
I may have used the wrong words, but you get the gist.

I think about ... Sephiroth of course. :)

*cough*

Although I have a lot of problems getting to sleep due to screwy sleeping hours. I often find myself thinking about things that heppened and sometimes I worry about things I shouldn't.

Abe Babe...

I generally think about whatever happend that day or whatever's most pressing in my life at the moment.

I usually just think of all the stupid stuff i've done that day, or thinking of the fun things that happen that day. But sometimes I try to figure out complicated problems from school, which almost always works. So I usually just try to figure stuff out before I fall asleep.

But then, for some reason, this tiny thought creeps into my mind and makes me beleive zombies are right outside my house, waiting for us to fall asleep and break in. Of course, some of you might say zombies don't exist. But when i'm alone in my bed, with the streetlight faintly shining into my room, they are real to me. I don't know why, but my brain won't let me dismiss the idea of zombies.

So I lay there, my mind going 60mph figuring out an escape route, what I would do, what weapons to grab, etc. So I finally get to sleep by counting up to and down from 10. Then I'm out like a light.

Is that enought for you guys to think i'm a total psycho? ;)

And no, what I typed above is what actually goes through my mind before I go to sleep.

Melodramatic, but:

My first love.

Christ I'm such a pussy.

Alcar...

I think about my family. I miss them sometimes.
If I want to go to bed quick i can't think about sex and get all riled up, I think about happy times in my life instead.

How does thinking about your first love make you a pussy? Anyway, I've started thinking about wierd things and last night I dreamt that I swallowed a Gameboy.

Lately I've been seen Psychonauts every time I close my eyes. But that's not exactly a conscious thought, just an effect of playing it waaaay too much.

Sidenote: Mia's nightmare totally freaked me out.

Aw Petey. You think of me every night? :)

I used to do that a hell of alot. [Think about first love not peter/myself. ;)] As sad as it sounds I only got 'over it' a few months ago, about 2 and a half years later... -_-;;

Recently I've been thinking about films and stuff I'm gonna do in the future.

And of course. That special someone.

- Rexy

I'm still recovering. But I'll be damned if I take 2^1/2 years. Dammit, I'll probably take longer :p

Alcar...

Yay! And thats because of someone special being more important eh? ;)

Well, I try. xxx :p

Yes, because I found someone more annoying to think about. :p

- Rexy

I've been thinking about Petey lately... but perhaps it's best not to reveal why.

*Without reading any of the above posts*
I think about Oddworld. Shocker.

I usually think what I am going to do next day. Just now I am writing a novel and think of that. Sadly it nothing to with Oddworld.

It the silence. Where I can piece each character into place. I have the prologue done. Is there a literture section on off topic stories? I put it on to see if I should continue or scrap it. So far it is a bit of a mess

I think of fat, sweaty gimps, covered in babyjuice, while spanked by some skanky, skinny granny mistress, who's drinking a glass of wine, mixed with bile and blood. There's an elevator music running on the background, and then suddenly George Bush comes fluttering by, dressed as a ballerina with wings, and a magic staff. That's what I think of when I go to sleep.

But for some reason, I only manage to get an 6 hours night of sleep...

Edit: For those of you who don't know what a gimp is:

G is for Gimp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/images/o...on/gimp205.jpg

Lately, as exams are approaching, I've been hounding myself for not revising more. I'm screwed.

That gets me unhappy, so I think of a certain someone and a certain future I'd appreciate, and that keeps my spirits up until the regular cynicism kicks in again.

I think I've been getting to sleep much better recently.

I'm writing a novel too but..it's about Oddworld...so even if I think of it then technically I am still thinking of Oddworld...dang, I'm obsessed.

Because of Sekto Springs' punk ass I CAN'T sleep anymore. He dredged up some unpleasent memories from my childhood that keep me awake sweating at night. Plus, (as if that wasn't bad enough) he showed me a picture of his penis. OF HIS GODDAMNED PENIS! Every time I close my eyes........uh, I can't talk about it.