So, how do you sleep?

[Flint]

Originally Posted by wolf

... I have several drumming CDs ...

Drumming is nice. The repetitive patterns are soothing, like a mantra. If my daughter is being fussy and not wanting to go to bed, I can hold her while I play the drums (lightly, with little bundles of dowel rods) and she goes right to nighty-night.

I've recently started experimenting with having a Terry Bozzio CD playing very low in her room at night. We also have a CD for babies with various types of white noise, such as vacuum cleaners and hair dryers.

I use drums, in a different way, to calm my mind down while I'm trying to get to sleep. I imagine playing the drums, visualizing it as well, sometimes I add a bass guitar, so I can play figures against an ostinato. I actually learn how to play new things this way (when I actually sit down at a drumset, my limbs already know how to play the pattern).