I still don't know. So after dismissing my anxiety, I turned to my old stand by. My trusted treatment for insomnia, episodic television. There is a certain kind of tv show that never fails to put me soundly to sleep. It can't be too funny, too sentimental or too thought provoking. Short plot lines and new characters help. The trick is that you don't want to get to involved in the show but it must be interesting enough to take my mind off of whatever is keeping it awake at night. My go to show? Psych. It's silly, trivial (even though it's usually dealing with murder), the characters are likable enough but I don't really relate to them and all that just lulls me to sleep. And most importantly it's available online.
But this morning*, I learned that at that very moment when I couldn't figure out why I couldn't sleep, I could have been checking out the night sky for auroras**.
The sun ejected two huge solar flares Tuesday, and NASA says that we here on Earth may notice the effects of magnetic fields and ionized gases that it estimates will arrive around 1:25 a.m. ET Thursday. So, if you detect some electronic interference — say, your GPS doesn't work right — blame it on the sun. -NPR News BlogWell, my laptop kept working like a champ but I'd like to think that maybe it was the solar flares keeping me up.
Cuz, I'm so connected to the universe and stuff.
* Hey NPR, how about putting news about predicted cosmic events in my news feed before they actually happen?
** The first time I ever saw the aurora was in Moab, Utah on a field trip while I was in college.
I blame these solar flares for the fact that I've been off my game all week. And I blame them for your insomnia, too. Castle is my version of your Psych. Hope you get some rest!
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