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.
My very long to-do list.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 source ↗
Thinking about all the worst possible things: losing people, dying, how am I going to die? All that sort of stuff. I stay awake thinking about furniture and shoes as well. It’s not all death.
My rational brain doing battle with my emotional brain.
Nothing. If I’m worried or upset or tormented, I go to sleep quickly and easily, to find welcome oblivion.
Worrying about insomnia.
Nice, direct, loyal.
At each of my sons’ weddings.
Safety of loved ones.
I had to clean up the sump pump [toilet system] in my house because my sister and I flushed things we shouldn’t have.
Being at our beach house with my family in the Bahamas.
I think our kids take our stuff!
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