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The couple in the hotel room next to me.
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My son playing drum’n’bass.
All of the anxious thoughts that you are able to escape during the day that somehow know when you are lying down to relax.
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Worrying about the faux pas I made earlier that evening. I tend to suffer from foot-in-mouth disease.
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Eight years ago, I didn’t sleep for more than two hours a night and was very skinny. I went to a sleep clinic, and learned techniques to switch my mind off.
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