#50 Let me bore you to sleep - Jason Newland (27th October 2018)

Hello and welcome to jasonnewland.com. My name is Jason Newland. This is a let me bore you to sleep. I think, I think, think, think, think this is number 50, which is apart from the relaxation sessions.

So I used to number them years ago. But this is the most amount of any courses or series of sessions I've ever done. That's nice.

So I've lived on my own so long that things like picking the ears and I'm so used to doing that I forget that there's people watching. It's just an itch. Sometimes you've got to scratch an itch.

It's itching because it needs to be scratched. You get hungry because you need to eat. You get thirsty because you need to drink.

So that's how I see itches as you need to scratch it or seek medical help, you know, depending on where it is and how long it lasts, I suppose. So only watch this video or listen to this audio when you can safely close your eyes. Because it may cause drowsiness.

And I was speaking to someone. I was doing a live broadcast last night on Facebook. And a lady called Fiona said that listening to me was making her feel sleepy.

And I said, well, this isn't a sleepy session. And she just pointed out that listening to my voice, having listened to the, oh no, it was something else. No, she listens.

I think it was maybe hypnotic buffets. Anyway, it was a case of the connection between my voice and feeling sleepy and falling asleep. Seemed to be that connection was there.

I could definitely fall asleep myself. Actually, I might do. I might just go to sleep together.

So I've got the light on just in front of me. That's why it's so bright. And Andre just poked his head out of the bag.

He's looking at me. I think he's wondering why is it so bright in here? Maybe it's time for dinner. But I can't get him dinner when I'm sitting here talking to you.

So it won't be about an hour until you get your dinner. He's coming out anyway. You can come and give me a cuddle if you want, Andre.

Come and say hello to people watching if you want. So I'm quite pleased with my beard. It's growing.

It's doing its thing. It's going to be very, very, very huge beard. It's going to be Uncle Albert.

It's going to be an Uncle Albert beard. I'm not thinking of letting my hair grow really long. So I might have to get myself a hat to wear.

While it's going through that. I'm not sure what the correct word is, but uncomfortable to look at stage, I suppose, where it's just my hair is just going to be sticking out in all directions. And at the moment, I know perhaps you can't see it, but at the moment it's starting to curl at the sides.

It's already getting curly at the top of the front. Although the front is a bit higher up than it used to be. I'm sure my fringe used to be about there.

That's where my hairline used to be. Now it's a little bit higher. I don't mind things like that.

I think it would look a bit strange if at my age, I still looked 17. It would be, it'd be unusual. Imagine if I had a 17 year old's face and head with this body, you know, I have to have a, this is not a flattering t-shirt or look, it looks like I've got, it's like I need a bra.

You wouldn't believe it, but this is not all muscle. So Andre looks so cute. He's just laying out of his bag.

So he's, he's up to his waist out of the bag. So the rest of his body's in the bag and he's stretched out and he's like that. And he's just resting on his, on his hands.

He's got his eyes closed, his little ears. So cute. Sometimes I just look at him and I just like looking at him.

He's so beautiful. Just everything about him is just so beautiful. It's such a cute, cute little boy.

And then he starts misbehaving. Some of the things that he does to misbehave is, and these are things that he seems to want to do in the middle of the night, you know, three or four in the morning. He suddenly get up out of his sleep and I'll have to be watching television or doing something and I'll hear scratching and banging.

So I'll go in and it'll be my wardrobe. He likes to scratch at the door, open the door of the wardrobe from underneath, but just keep letting it bang and bang and bang and bang and bang. And then he gets inside the wardrobe and the door closes and he starts pushing the door and scratching at the door and banging and banging and banging it.

And he's not trapped in there. He can get out at any point. He just enjoys the process of going in and out of the door.

Imagine if we could all be that satisfied with such things. We wouldn't need the internet or television or crayons or Lego or whatever it is that interests you. It's the noise that's a bit annoying.

Another thing he likes to do, and he may well start doing it even while we're talking, but, and he's ruined a few sessions doing that over the years, is he'll start, he's got a cat scratcher, which has got a, it's a big brown thing and he can climb on it and there's the, there's an entrance to it and he can sleep inside it as well. But every now and then he has a good old scratch that's really noisy and sometimes he'll do it when I'm making a session. But the only alternative is to put him into the bedroom and it's okay if it's for 20 minutes, but I don't want to put him in there for an hour.

And I didn't get him to lock him up, you know, it's, I know he's got a cage and I put him in there in the evenings, not the evenings, but when he, when I go to bed, I put him in the cage. And the only reason for that is because he disturbs me when I'm asleep. He'll start rattling the wardrobe or sometimes he'll climb onto me and he'll start nibbling, nibbling my hands.

Definitely he likes to, so I have a little bite at my toes, which isn't great. And then sometimes to wake me up, he'll actually start licking my ear and nibbling on my ear and then he bites just where my eye. It's just to wake me up because he wants to play.

There's no other reason for it that I can think of unless he's trying to eat me, which I hope, hope not. And he does that sometimes during the day, if I've gone for a sleep, a lay down, which I do sometimes. And I have to keep my socks on because otherwise he'll start nibbling on my toes.

He's got a foot fetish. It goes for everybody's feet. Everybody.

Doesn't matter if you're an adult child, man, woman, even if you're a dog, it goes for your feet. He just loves feet for some reason. I don't understand why, but I actually was lying there one day and because he climbs onto the bed, but he has to, sometimes he has to make a few attempts because he has to sort of cling onto something to climb up.

And I was just laying there and I kept my eyes closed and then I kind of opened, you know, when you open your eyes a little bit, you can see through your eyelashes, but you're not, your eyes aren't completely closed. A bit like when you're on a first date and just the person's getting undressed and maybe, or maybe not the first date, but you know, might be a romantic relationship and you kind of, you've got your eyes closed, but you've got your eyes, you're kind of looking through just to make sure there's, I don't know, just everything's as it should be. No hidden surprises, although it's been a long time for me.

So he's lying there. So what should I talk about today? So the point of these Let Me Boy To Sleep sessions is that I just talk about stuff. Just talk.

Talk and talk and talk and talk and talk again. This t-shirt really isn't giving me the best angle of my body. Nevermind.

So the idea behind these recordings, videos, whatever, is that we've all met somebody, I'm guessing, we've all met somebody that likes to talk. And it might be someone that you really care about. And you know, it's not, it's not kind of a negative thing.

But sometimes perhaps they like to talk about a particular subject that you have zero interest in. So, you know, you might have a great relationship and any other, every other part of that relationship, when they start talking about goldfish or the history of cement, it just, and they can talk about it for hours. And even though they might be talking about it with enthusiasm and pie charts, and, you know, they might have videos to show you and it's just maybe a little bit hard to keep your eyes open and to, you know, to try and stop a yawn.

In one way, I suppose, if you do yawn, just try and cover it up, just tell them that you're just bored. That could be rude. But you could say you're tired.

I'm yawning because I'm tired. Or you could give a hint, you could sort of say, well, do you mind if I record you talking about all the different colors of the various budgies around the world? Can I record you talking about it? And if they say, why? You say, well, because I think it's going to help me to sleep. So when I can't sleep, I'll play that and I'll be able to get to sleep really quickly and easily and safely feel relaxed and calm and just drift off.

I don't know how that would go down. So this is kind of an alternative to that. So instead of asking someone that you care about, if you can tape them talking about their travels, you know, instead of saying, well, can you tell me more about your round-the-world trip and all the different destinations you went on? And tell me more about how you feel it's changed your life.

And I'll tape it so that I can get to sleep easier when I need to. Can I film you and tape you showing me the photographs from your wedding? So when I've got a bit of insomnia, I can drift off nicely. Some people might class that as rude.

So I'm kind of the alternative to that. So, you know, the idea you really like somebody, it might even be a first, like a new relationship or your husband or wife, or, you know, you really like them. And you've been invited to go around to a friend's house to, I don't know, maybe to, oh, it's an idea.

Maybe you've met someone that you really like and you meet their parents, maybe for the first time. And one of the parents decides to get the photo album out and they want to show you pictures of the person that you've just met and maybe you really like them, but pictures of them since they were a baby. And instead of saying to them, well, can I just take the photograph album or the 17 photograph albums home with me so whenever I've struggled to sleep, I can look through them and fall asleep really easily.

Because that might come across as mildly rude, possibly. You can listen to me talk about the idea of how boring that would be to look at pictures of anything really for more than a few minutes. But some people like photographs.

My brother's girlfriend who was at a wedding, not his, but he was at the wedding with me and he was with his girlfriend. And he was getting annoyed, well not annoyed, not really angry, but just because she liked to keep taking photographs of everything. So I was encouraging her.

In fact, I took her aside because he hadn't told her that he didn't really like photographs. And I took her aside. I said, you know what? The thing is, he doesn't tell many people, but he absolutely loves having photographs taken of him.

The more that they're happy readers, he can't get enough. He keeps it quiet. It's something that he absolutely adores.

He likes to have at least 10, 20 photographs just every time, just so he can get the right picture. He likes to keep all those photographs. He'd be happy to.

He always wanted to be a model just so he could have cameras facing him all the time. I didn't tell him that I told her that, but he did question. He said, how come suddenly she's taking even more pictures of me? All I wanted to do was go to the toilet.

Didn't expect her to come in with me. So, yeah, it was sort of something like that. Pictures, looking at pictures.

It's boring to you. And, you know, instead of telling someone, you could listen to me talking about people taking pictures and people that are bored looking at pictures. I remember there was once I was at this thing.

I won't go into details what it was, but we basically, it was what, six of us, and we all just needed to do a presentation. And it was a personal thing. So I kind of, everyone did a small presentation.

And one of the people in there, he started reading. And it was like an essay. It wasn't his essay, it was someone else.

But he was reading it. So he didn't, it wasn't personal at all. He just read someone else's work.

That was one of the longest 20 minutes of my life. It went on, and on, or he went on, and on, and on, and on, and on. And 20 minutes listening to somebody, especially when you don't know when it's going to end.

You don't know when something's going to end. Sometimes it just seems to last longer. And if I'd have laid down, well, if I'd have known he was going to do that, I'd have took a sleeping bag with me.

But if I had took a sleeping bag with me and laid down and kissed everyone goodnight, you know, did a little rain dance, whatever, you know, what we all do before going to sleep. Put cream on my knees. So it's just basically, it possibly would be rude to do that.

I still don't think it would have distracted him from reading. He was determined to finish where it started. And that's kind of what I'm doing.

But you can see how long it lasts at the beginning, because you can look at the length of, you can see the length before you decide what to do with it, you know. So if this is an hour long, you can see it's an hour long. So you're not sitting there or lying down thinking, oh, when's this going to end? Oh, that's when you might not go, ooh.

You might go, ah, when's this going to end? You might not go, ah, either. But that's kind of what these sessions are about, just me talking, just a bunch of words, making up sentences. And some of it may be meaningful, some of it may not be meaningful.

Some of it may be true. Some of it may not be true. Some of it may be things that I believe in.

Some things may just be me messing about. And none of it really matters, because it's all about being boring. I could spend the next 30 minutes talking about the first time I purchased a pair of socks on my own, or the first time that, you know, I discovered that, what is it called? It's a shower gel, but it's minty.

It's like, it doesn't taste minty. It smells minty. But it's, it leaves the minty feeling on your body, even after the shower has come to a close.

It's still that feeling, tingly, tingly feeling of that shower gel on your body, even though you've washed it off and you've rinsed it off your body. And it's that smell. It's not just the smell, it's the feeling on your body.

And wondering if other people also have that same reaction to that minty or spearmint shower gel. I can't recall what it's called. It's some organic or... But if you have used it, you will know what I mean.

And you'll understand what I'm... You'll understand what I'm not saying, if that makes sense. So I used to use it quite a lot. I used to like it.

But I have baths now anyway, because when I first moved in here, into this flat, I fell out of the bath. I'm not sure if I was having a shower. I forget now, but I fell out of the bath and actually broke my wrist.

So I prefer baths now. Plus I do like showers sometimes, especially if it's really, they're really powerful. I don't mean good at running businesses or, you know, politicians.

I mean, it's powerful at the pressure of the water, especially on the top of my head. And especially after maybe a workout, you know, going to the gym or something like that. Back of the, yeah, also back of the neck and shoulders.

And then the back as well, my back, the back, my back, the top, middle and lower back, I suppose, just a really powerful, full-on, it's a kind of, kind of jet of pressure that I wash my hair, but I kind of wonder if there'll be any hair left. Because of the pressure, they just blown my hair away. They never did.

Never did. So that's kind of what these sessions are about. I realize now this, this video is just me talking about what the video is about.

And I'm not sure what else I'm going to talk about, but I will find something to focus on. Because it's quite easy to just let go, relax. And we all need sometimes to just close our eyes and fall asleep easily and naturally.

And that's the thing about listening to somebody that's boring is there's no interest in what I'm going to say next. Because what I'm going to say next is going to be boring. There's no excitement or anticipation at all.

It's just more of the same. Just me talking and talking. And it's just a bunch of words.

It's just a bunch of somehow interconnected ideas, forming thoughts, and then verbalized in a vague format. Not really producing or creating anything or meeting any kind of goal. Except the intention of feeling sleepy and calm.

And I really could just fall asleep myself. It'd be so easy to just drift away. I'm just on the verge, really.

The verge of just drifting. And I can always tell when I am there because I notice that the words start to appear a bit slower than before. And there is no connection between things that may have seemed as though they were connected with the view of allowing yourself to feel so relaxed.

And there's a comfort that can be gained. And sometimes it's a comfort that maybe only comes with this sense of peace that you experience when you're feeling sleepy. There's some things that I like to do as I'm laying in bed.

And I do this. It's like a routine. And over the years, pre-sleep routine has changed somewhat.

So these days, I lay down, and usually I lay down on my left side. And if it's warm enough, I'll have my right foot outside of the quilt. And I'll feel relaxed.

And I tell myself internally that my body is relaxed. And that my mind is calm by my body is relaxed. I tried to say my body there, and my lips got stuck together.

It ended up being my body. My mind is calm. My body is relaxed.

My mind is calm. And then I start to say these things to myself. I breathe naturally.

I sleep naturally. I breathe safely. I sleep safely.

I breathe easily. I sleep easily. And this is something that I've been doing for a while.

It's also almost, which is what I was trying to say then. Instead of saying also, I meant almost. And then it turned out to be also, almost.

I probably could have just got away with it if I hadn't mentioned. So also, almost. And I've forgotten what I was going to say.

It's almost become habitual. It just feels like the right thing to do, to say these things as you're laying in your bed. Saying it inside your head.

And some roses are red. I saw that as an opportunity to make a pointless poem. Because not all poems need to have a point.

Although roses do have a point. They have quite a few. And leaves.

But this session isn't really about roses or ridiculously bad poetry. This is about finding your own words that fit your own experience. And whatever those words may mean to you, means that you have a really lovely effect upon your mind and body, allowing you to experience more comfort.

Allowing you to enjoy increased relaxation in every part of your body. Relaxed muscles. Relaxed in your bones.

Relaxed in your skin. Every part of your skin that covers your entire body is feeling relaxed, calm. And all your internal organs also feel loose and relaxed.

And that sense of natural healing that takes place within your body increases that healing by a thousand percent. So your whole body and mind experiences that sensation and feeling of healing. And safety.

Relaxation. Not just in your brain. Relaxing the different parts of your physical brain.

And the muscles of your body. Sleeping. Loose.

Calm. Sleepy. Safe.

Appreciate yourself. All those wonderful qualities that you possess. You can feel good and relaxed inside.

Now letting go completely. And that brings us to the end of another Let Me To Sleep. See you next time.