The question
What thought won't let you sleep?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Intrusive thoughts and caffeine.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2025 source ↗
A bad performance.
Worrying about the faux pas I made earlier that evening. I tend to suffer from foot-in-mouth disease.
Nothing. If I’m worried or upset or tormented, I go to sleep quickly and easily, to find welcome oblivion.
Sometimes the overwhelming realisation that I will one day die; but mostly that ShortList man from the tube throwing stones at my window.
I cried watching the movie Coco with my daughter.
The best way to spend time is to waste it.
A strong work ethic and enough wealth not to need it.
OCD medication.
A flight from Paraguay to South Africa that went badly wrong. The plane nearly fell out of the sky and the oxygen masks dropped. People were screaming but the pilot saved the day, and then apparently never flew again.
“I would love to go on a date with you, but I’d be too embarrassed.”
Fran Lebowitz, Julien Macdonald, Craig David, Lil Nas X, Susan Calman, Tom Burke
Search the directory for somebody in particular.