Stu came to my apartment after work and after a beer I threw him out. I was tired, sleepy, and ready to sleep! So I went to bed. 

Soon after that I heard the sound of thunder several times and I

thought okay, this is a storm that will pass south of Bangkok!

Wrong!!!

Well, I love to sleep to the sound of falling rain but the lightning and thunder keeps me awake (unless I am fully asleep and then I don't care)! As I type, it's around 2:40am and it's still raining and the thunder and lightning doesn't stop!

Okay, I'll be patient. It will stop. And Dr_Singha is helping me to take the "I don't care" attitude.

Good night...soon I hope!

3 am here in Malaysia, also can't sleep!

Bugger. i KNEW I should have squeezed another beer out of you before I left...

you threw Stu out?

(Good call!) !!!!! ;-)

beejoir: what the hell are you doing in Malaysia?

that country should put anyone to sleep immediately!

ask Sassy!

(no...wait...she is sleeping now!) ;-)

$$$

u r not the only one. hehe

long holidays in China. bored...

The thought of Stu being the last thing I saw before I went to bed would be more than enough to keep me awake.

What? you threw Stu out? thats shocking maybe Stu couldn't sleep either and needed a few more beers! hehe

fool moon...?!? uppps full moon? ;-)

Helpful Dr_Singha! )))

Khun Lung Mike {Serious condition} Sometimes soft exercise and warm milk can help na kha. ))) Or reading Dhamma book...Maybe!

For me "I don't care" attitude is also the best ja...;D

Why dont u and stu go to bed together? It s good to cuddle someone and fall asleep hehe..

I bet you are sleeping now eh ? Sleep well na Khun Lung

LadyVin: That is NOT an option!!!!!!!!!!!

I am also an insomniac. Let me know when you have the cure. I find that I sleep better if I get good exercise earlier in the evening, but that's not possible all the time.

Not 100% on point but saw this in the IHT today:

Confused? Try getting a good night's sleep

By Eric Nagourney

Published: May 2, 2007

Sleeping on the job is not generally a good idea, but when it comes to the brain it may be another matter.

As people sleep, a new study suggests, their brains may be sorting through the information they have gathered, making connections that could lead to new insights. The study appears online in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Earlier studies found that people appear better able to remember things they have just learned if they are able to sleep soon after. In effect, they found, the brain appears to use sleep time to consolidate memories.

This study suggests that the process is still more complex, and that sleep helps people make inferences from bits of knowledge that may at first appear random, said one of the authors, Dr. Jeffrey Ellenbogen of Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Harvard affiliate.

People make minor inferences all the time without sleeping first, of course, but those connections tend to be fairly straightforward. Sleep appears to play a role in helping people make "big picture" realizations, Ellenbogen said, like those involved in major scientific breakthroughs.

For the study, researchers asked 56 college students to study pairs of elaborately decorated ovals. They were told that in each pair, one oval won out over the other. But they were not told of a broader pattern in which all the ovals were part of a hierarchy.

The students were then broken into three groups. The members of one group were tested to see how much of the hierarchy they could discern just 20 minutes after they studied the shapes. Another group was tested 12 hours later, with half its members having slept. Members of the third group were tested 24 hours later, after all had slept.

The first group did the worst, while those students who had been able to sleep did best.

Stu was ok.

When khun_lung threw him out, I found Stu sleeping under a bridge.

I took him home and put him to bed

(I slept on the floor!)

(Cannot trust a Pom under any conditions!!!!) ;-)

anenglishman:

you are corrrect.

Thanks again for all the comments! Well, an extra bottle of Singha and writing a journal seems to make me sleepy but I won't make a habit of that!