This was me in the early evening last night. I have been through an emotionally charged few days regarding my career projectory and I just needed to sleep. Being the early evening, sleep isn't the most automatic response your body has to being forced into a reclined position poised for slumber. I therefore resorted to playing some of the classical music I have accumulated, which theoretically should have worked because classical music is perceived to be soothing and relaxing, but this isn't quite the result. Instead of soothing and relaxing me, my brain found the classical music far too stimulating to induce sleep as I found myself going through maybe the subtle nuances of a flute whispering through a particularly charged passage in a symphony or the fervent bowing of a principal violinist solo. This reduced me to the stark realisation that I have no soothing music in the plethora of files stored in my laptop, an impossibility I had not foreseen because I never once thought that I would be in dire need to "soothe" myself. I guess this is when I try to find 'sleep' music, but surprisingly, I'm not too inclined to find it. I'm quite content to have my flighty symphonic works, if they don't help to put me to sleep (like what happened last night) I can always try the age-old recurrence of sleeping in silence.
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