Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 20, 2015

I’ve met this guy before.

Take a dose of NyQuil with a double vodka; that will put all the ghosts to sleep.-This insomnia cure courtesy of the late great Hunter Thompson.

Yep, it’s thinking about why you can’t fall asleep that keeps you awake.

Rat: “I think I’ll try counting ghosts with black eyes…”Ghost: “Goodbye.”

so that is how rat gets ideas of what to tell others, so things would go wrong for them

So Rat’s actions are all from a lack of sleep……..

Rat’s problem is that he believes in ghosts….

Stay in the Now, and you can sleep. If you let tomorrow (which is currently a ghost like the past) intrude, you’ll stay awake with regret or anxiety. For many, leftwingpatriot’s reference is a temporary soporific. Meditation practiced regularly can help.

I forgot to say that this is one of the very best Stephan has done, a serious jewel among jewels.

Never had to worry about what could go wrong the next day. But have had trouble falling asleep. The worst isn’t when you just can’t go to sleep so you end up wide awake, it’s when you’re eyes stay closed but you can’t enter R.E.M. sleep until about half an hour to an hour before you’re supposed to get up because you’re thinking way too much.

Five hours sleep is a good night for me.

My trick, for what it’s worth: when my mind won’t stop spinning, I choose some project or hobby that I plan on building, then proceed to construct it in my mind……sleep often follows in under 3 minutes.

Poor Rat

This is NOT funny. With the exception of the NyQuill/vodka I’ve tried EVERY remedy mentioned and none of them work.And if I do manage to drift off, I have the most terrible dreams.I need Rat to come bop me on the head with his judge’s mallet every night. I’d have a lumpy head but at least I would get some s-l-e-e-p!

Tell me this, Mr Ghost. Who was Casper before he died?

He is the ghost of things that can go wrong, I am living proof of things that did go wrong.

Usually about 3AM or 4AM my ghost arrives. So much to do!

Wow, that’s kind of different. Did someone stand in for Stephen today?

Genial.

“The Ghost of all the Things that can go Wrong Tomorrow”“What the Dickens does he want?”

at least I listen to relaxing music when I sleep at night

It’s always fun when two different cartoonists come up with matching strips. But today: Part 1 is Calvin and Hobbes. Part 2 is Pearls Before Swine. A perfect juxtaposition!

This ’toon is nonsense; the only thing that would keep Rat from sleeping is remembering something nasty that he failed to do.

Worst of all is finally getting to sleep and then dreaming you’re at work! BTDT, especially if there has been some difficult project or new programs to learn.

Tomorrow is another day.

xxx

“Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” Matthew 6:34 OKJ

I heard if you count backwards from 300 by 3s it will put you to sleep. It sounds weird but it works. I think you fall to sleep out of boredom. Anyway, I’ve never made it past 280.

Try sleeping near a dumpster where rats are supposed to sleep.

Very funny!! I had to Pin that one! I have taken Ambien for years. My mind won’t shut up and let me go to sleep, Ambien shuts me off like a light switch.zzzzzzzzzzzzz

I had insomnia as a teen. On my first night away at college, I slept quickly and thoroughly and woke only to my alarm clock next morning. Been that way ever since. Clearly, something at home made me restless. Today, if some necessity (or fun) keeps me from taking my eight nightly, I can snag a nap at a moment’s notice. I can be asleep in one minute and wake refreshed in ten. (Alarm watch or cell phone needed for the wakeup.) My friends say I have the gift of instant sleep. One claims that if you sneak up behind me and press a pillow against my ear I’d fall down unconscious… and that’s not much of an exaggeration. Wish I could package and sell it. Clearly, I’d be rich in short order.

Hey-at least Stephan didn’t end with a long-contrived pun.