For the most part I'm a pretty good sleeper - and napper, I love to take midday naps on the weekends. I went thru a period of a couple years where my thoughts/dreams would loop at night and I wasn't getting restful sleep, so I used to take 5HTP which really helped. Mid-last year I decided to stop taking it and things have been pretty OK, in hindsight I think the mental looping might have been related to allergy responses to eating food with lectin.
My current challenge to sleeping really soundly is my cat Whitehall, who has food issues and wants to be fed several times a night... it is easiest to just get up and feed her, but I have been thinking of trying to retrain her by not getting up. It's been a bit of a struggle, but last night we may have turned the corner because she wasn't nearly the pest she usually is.
While I was in Maryland last week there was a mass shooting here in Seattle, nine people shot and one person killed because of a fight, right where I catch the bus in the afternoons. Had I been here and worked my normal schedule, I would have walked right thru where it happened about half an hour before it took place. Yesterday was my first day back and there was still a strange agitated vibe, like people were milling around looking for trouble. In particular there was a group of punk kids blowing up balloons and popping them, imitating the sound of gun shots to scare people... even though there was a heavy police presence. It's got me thinking more and more about how I don't enjoy being in the city at all, and about making concrete plans for the future. That and Kobe Bryant's death has re-trigger all the feelings from my brother's passing, and how a day starts out 'normal' and then the shock that happens when the world changes in an instance. Lot's of heavy thoughts today, things to work on.