…is worth two after, or so the early birds tell me. And boy were they ever right. Having a media-type-creative-type job I am lucky enough to compensate low income with late starts. This allows me to stay up late and soak up all those important cultural events that go on in our fair capital…or stay up to watch Arrested Development and Curb Your Enthusiasm after midnight.

So rare is the day that I am in bed before 2am.

The other evening all that changed. Exhaustion sent me to bed early and the importance of a good night’s sleep became clear. I had amazingly lucid dreams and woke up early for work fresh and ready to go. I normally put my sour morning demeanour down to cheap coffee and quitting cigarettes just under a year ago. Now I realise after a couple of early nights in a row. It was the lack of sleep.

Which is why I’d encourage all hl readers to tuck themselves up early on these wintry nights and check out the stories that your subconcious is trying to tell you. And if you need a little help to get to slumberland you could always put this on in the background.

http://www.firemusic.co.uk/music/archivemusic/sleepmix.mp3

TRACKLISTING:

Sleep Mix

Jungle Noises…
Petit Pays Cesaria Evora (Chateau Flight Remix)
Prelude and Fugue in C Minor The Swingle Singers
Psalm Detroit Elevator Company
Peace Piece Bill Evans
Psalm Detroit Elevator Company
1st Of Tha Month Bone Thugs & Harmony (K&D Session Part III Dub)
They Came In Peace Tranquility Bass
Summer Noises…
Meditation Carlos ‘Devadip’ Santana & John Mclaughlin
Ashes, The Rain & I James Gang (2nd Movement)
Cristo Renditor Harvey Mandel
With This Love Wells Cathedral Choir
Of These, Hope From The Last Temptation Of Christ OST
Open Peter Gabriel & Shankar
La Petite Fille De La Mer Vangelis
Small Hours John Martyn
A Wonderful Life Carl Craig….