If 2020 hasn’t driven you to the brink of madness yet, I’m sure [if you live in the US], the last few days tested your sanity. I used practically all my coping strategies between the time I cast my vote Tuesday and when I read earlier today that the Biden/Harris ticket prevailed [Praise the Lord!].
When my stress levels are off the chart, I do the one thing that calms immediately–I sleep. And that’s exactly what happened Wednesday night when I started writing my blog post on sleep as a way to cope with 2020 madness; two sentences in, I fell asleep. 
There are times when I struggle with insomnia for days, sometimes weeks, but when I encounter high levels of emotional stress over situations I can’t control, I have no problem escaping through sleep. When I wake up, even if the worst hasn’t passed, my emotions and/or stress are a lot more manageable.
The links between lack of sleep and stress and good sleep and our responses to stress are widely discussed in academic and medical journals, so it’s no surprise that sleep helps me to “wait out” 2020’s madnesses with patience and calm.
And that’s a good thing, because, if nothing else, 2020 is trying to teach us to wait.
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I’ve had exactly the opposite problem: I couldn’t sleep. Then I try to catch up on audio books, when I can find them in the public domain.
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When I can’t sleep, I listen to audio books and podcasts. If they’re super interesting, I’m out like a light in no time. LOL!
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That’s what I’ve found, too! The problem is that then I keep having to find the spot where I fell asleep in the story! 🙂
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Yep! LOL!
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Sleep… the great healer.
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Indeed! I remember when I was in my high school creative writing class, another student wrote a poem about sleep. He described it as “heaven on earth.” I can think of no better way to describe a good, restful sleep.
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God will give you rest, at just the right time.
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Thanks. God is good& His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations ((Psalm 100:5)
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A few pages of reading my book in bed and whatever that sleep button is in the body seems to work every night for me, sometimes I try to resist and read the same page over and over and over and then have to reread it the next day. 🙂
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Same. My famous words when things are too much…I’m about to take a nap!
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Indeed! One of my colleagues is the same way too!
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