any sleeping spells you want to share?

[kuotetsu]

Placing an amethyst under your pillow is supposed to help you sleep well. Unless it's one of those big, pointy ones, in which case you're likely to spend all night going "Ow!"

Amethysts are also supposed to ward off anxieties, nightmares and oversleeping. A small tumbled stone should work fine if you cleanse and charge it first.

Dorothy Morrison had a spell in 'Everyday Tarot Magic' that used the four of swords tarot card. I've used the same card to help charge sleep related items for sleep spells.

All that being said, hot milk with a little cinnamon works as well as any spell I've used

wow, that one's new to me, i might put some cinnamon in a milk. plus that amethyst in a pillow, works well too. thanks a bunch..

[Makbawehuh]

This is where I resort to my favorite bedtime reading. Which I'm going to pick up now, as a matter of fact. Ah, macro-economics textbook, you are good for something! Anything interesting, but dry in tone, usually has me asleep in minutes, no matter how awake I am when I start. Economics, heavy philosophy, history of any kind...

No incantations, you just open the book somewhere and read. I am usually dead to the world in about five minutes. If I wake up at all, it's to just turn out the light, usually around 3 A.M., and I don't usually wake up enough to remember it in the morning.

If you need heavy incentive to sleep, tell yourself you're -really- studying, ball your pillow up under your chin while laying on your stomach, and prop the book up in front of you. Let the magic begin!

[kuotetsu]

This is where I resort to my favorite bedtime reading. Which I'm going to pick up now, as a matter of fact. Ah, macro-economics textbook, you are good for something! Anything interesting, but dry in tone, usually has me asleep in minutes, no matter how awake I am when I start. Economics, heavy philosophy, history of any kind...

No incantations, you just open the book somewhere and read. I am usually dead to the world in about five minutes. If I wake up at all, it's to just turn out the light, usually around 3 A.M., and I don't usually wake up enough to remember it in the morning.

If you need heavy incentive to sleep, tell yourself you're -really- studying, ball your pillow up under your chin while laying on your stomach, and prop the book up in front of you. Let the magic begin!

like pastime reading? It appeals to me.. Like try to read books with quite hard to know words in it. Like the novels of Homer?

[Revolpathon]

read the christian bible in it's oldest form.

it will get you to sleep in no time

[jcrowfoot]

In the original hebrew, greek or aramaic? A lot of that would be interesting, to me, but I have a quirky romance with cultural anthropology with a sideline in religion.

Though Numbers does take the cake for the most boring bit of literature on the planet... I tend to loose track of all those begats. Why not make a family tree, for crying out loud? I can see it now... J Random Hebrew scribe: "Well, I'll just write it down in text for now... and make a diagram later." (time passes) "WTF? How did it wind up in the Torah???"

No, I'm afraid I can find any given text interesting, and will start playing games in my head while I'm reading. Yes, I read *every* textbook we were assigned (and some we weren't) when I was in school.

Oddly I find standard hard core video p.o.r.n very boring.
Yet, I can stare fascinated at a lava-lamp for hours (if I'm tired).


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[kuotetsu]

read the christian bible in it's oldest form.

it will get you to sleep in no time

that's really nice, those out of this world words with hard meanings would give you a real headache... and a good sleep