It’s barely been two weeks since I launched this blog and hundreds of people keep emailing me to ask “How does it work?” “How do you compete?” “I’ve never seen a pro event. At least I don’t think I have” “What are the rules?” “Is it really a game? And if so how do you play it? How do you win? “Do you compete on the same bed as your opponent? What are a few standard sleep strategies? “Are there different types of events?” “Where can I download pod casts of the events?” “What network are you guys on?” When does the season start? Is there even a season?
I have to apologize because having slept on the circuit since my childhood, dozing has always been a part of my everyday life. I took it for granted if you will, and assumed that everyone knew as much about it as I did. This is just one of the psychological risks associated with going pro while you’re still an infant. They say Michael Jackson missed out on his child-hood. Well I find that hard to believe. I mean really, what’s more child-like? Singing and dancing and shouting and playing music on stage with your brothers or having to sleep in the spot-light in front of an audience, night after night while holding perfect sculpture form? So not only was I a child who was competing/performing but I was sleeping through it all. Talk about missing something. But I’m verging on the sensitive issue of Baby Dozers. How young is too young? Mike Wallace is developing a piece on this with me so I’ll save the discussion for 60 Minutes in the Spring.
Back to the topic. Your questions. All of them. I was wrong to assume that everyone understood the intricacies of comp dozing in the way that most people know that a quarterback is the guy who throws the ball. This week I will address all the questions listed above and more so that everyone can talk dozing like Cubans talk baseball. Sports bind countries together. Why is baseball America’s sport? I mean shouldn’t the sport that defines a culture be the sport that every single citizen plays every single day? I look forward to detailing the sport for all of you but I really must say, I’ve never been to a Monster Truck Event. I have no idea what goes on. I just figured, hey I guess the best truck wins. Does it matter how they get to the podium?
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I have to admit that I have never heard of Competitive Sleeping. I guess that’s what happens when you get wrapped up in a marriage for 9 years. You get so focused on your own little world that you miss what’s going on in the real world
I found your site because I have been laying awake until dawn for the last 11 days. I can’t sleep. That’s a slight exaggeration. Sometimes I have nodded off for an hour or two after dawn but that’s it. It’s no mystery to me as to why I can’t sleep. Ever since my wife came home at 1:45am smelling more like another man than another man I have been too upset to sleep. My wife is cheating on me and I can’t sleep. I lay awake each night imagining her writhing on his musky body and I lay beside her knowing that she neither thinks about me nor respects me.
I don’t want to take up too much of your time as I’m sure your schedule is rigorous. But I just wanted to ask if you know of any advanced techniques for falling asleep that might help me sleep each night regardless of my situation. Thanks in advance for any thoughts you might have.
DM
Sorry for the delay in response. I have been. Well... Sleeping and not writing. Perhaps you have slept or moved since last you commented. I have few tricks for sleeping during an untrusting relationship. Mostly it's about sleeping for yourself. No one can take that away from you.
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