Hmm.

Just a thought.

When you can't sleep, do you count sheep?

And when you count sheep, does it actually help you sleep?

And the sheep you count, what do they look like? Cute cartoon versions? Or real ones?

You know how the sheep in cartoons of people counting sheep are always cute and leaping over fences? There was this night when I decided that they were too hyper and instead of getting me sleepy, I was becoming awake from all their strenuous activity and their boing boing actions. Besides, they were grinning and too happy.

That night, I switched to walking sheep forever. I would imagine cartoon sheep that have the slightly mournful expressions of real sheep walking slowly past a fence. They would trail by slowly in a neat row, sometimes munching something equally lazily in their mouths. It's a more logical pace and scenario for encouraging sleepiness isn't it?