Ah, I hope there's lots of times that you recall when you're not reading... driving, sleeping, ah, romantic moments.
I read every night before I fall asleep, it helps me disengage from the day and distracts me from everything I was thinking about long enough to put me to sleep. It works super well for me and I'm usually asleep within seconds of putting my book down...
... but the downside is that I now find it really hard to read any sort of educational material. Either it gets my brain buzzing before sleep... or if I read during the day, it puts me to sleep... so it's kind of a weird situation I've found myself in.
Yep, I too can't read non-fiction in bed or else it makes it harder to get to sleep. Bedtime is when I read fiction.
Lol...yeah there's a few times. Lolled at "romantic moments."
You get it, the disengagement and it works a treat usually. I've read some tings that spilled over into my dreams in good and bad ways and that's ok I guess, it's that detachment from the every day that I seek, as do you.
I mean, I legitimately struggle to sleep without the disengagement.
On the very few times reading hasn't worked for me, I have to very purposefully and intentionally think of ridiculous things that are completely unrelated to my life. One that works quite well for me is thinking about animals in formal attire... so I'll try to visualize a cheetah in a tuxedo or a giraffe in a ballgown and before I know it... I'm waking up in the morning.
Me too...I'm struggling at the moment actually. My job is, well, let's say it's all-encompassing and has a voracious appetite, and I sometimes struggle to detach enough to find a restful sleep...often up at 2:30 and start to think and that's the end of sleep for the night. It's a problem.
I'll try cheetahs in tuxedos and ballgown attired giraffes and see how it works.