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Husband: “When I used to sleep with my wife, she would poke or nudge me every time I would start to snore. This resulted in my becoming a little neurotic, to say the least. It got so bad that I wouldn’t be able to go to sleep, because I was afraid that I would start to snore, and that she would poke or nudge me. I had to start sleeping in a separate room in order to try to keep my sanity.”
Wife: “When I sleep with my husband, his snoring helps me to go to sleep. How can anyone think of anything but sleep when they hear someone snoring? How can anyone associate it with anything but sleeping? I don’t understand how some people are annoyed by it. My husband sounds like a big bear when he snores…so masculine!
”The other day my husband got into bed to take a nap. I wasn’t sleepy, but I wanted to be in bed with him. As soon as he began to snore, the sound of it put me to sleep also.“
Brahmacārī: ”Your new roommate snores louder than anyone else in the āśrama. If he starts to snore, just throw something at him.“
Vānaprastha: ”I used to have a roommate in the brahmacārī āśrama who had a reputation for snoring more loudly than anyone else in the āśrama. I was determined, however, to not let it bother me, because my wife used to poke me or nudge me to try to make me stop snoring, and it used to make me a little neurotic. It got so bad that I wouldn’t even be able to get to sleep for fear that I would start snoring, and that she would poke or nudge me to try to make me stop. I finally had to start sleeping in a different room.
“The first night that I slept in the same room as my new roommate, his snoring was very loud, but it was very rhythmic, almost hypnotic. I recalled a self-hypnosis tape which I used to listen to, so I adapted the technique to my present situation:
”With every sound of the Zzzzzzzzz, your eyes are getting heavier and heavier… With every sound of the Zzzzzzzzz, you are falling deeper and deeper to sleep…‘
“I fell asleep very quickly using this method.
”The second night, my roommate was snoring in such a way that it reminded me of wild animals in the jungle, so I imagined that I was in a nice sturdy jungle cottage completely surrounded by a screened in, roof-covered porch. The cottage was sitting in the middle of a clearing, but was completely encircled by a beautiful forest filled with the variegated creatures of the jungle. The nighttime air was still very warm, so the windows were wide open, but they were all covered with sturdy bars and screens, so as to keep out all types of intruders.
“I pretended that my roommate’s snoring was the sound of the jungle creatures, and that the sound was coming in through the open windows. This fantasy created a mentality which was very conducive to sleep, and again I fell asleep very quickly.
”From that point on, I was used to my roommate’s snoring, so neither of the above mentioned techniques was ever required again."
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