Thursday, June 12, 2008

Sheep Counting

It had become pretty frustrating that I cannot fall asleep without counting sheep, even if I did, it doesn't always work... Just bought some chamomile tea from Coles, hope it would work tonight...

Well I was wondering, what to think while counting sheep helps me falling asleep?

Usually when I count sheep, I'll think of their arrangements according to the number counted, though I am not that kind of math savvy... The arrangements are in different forms, among which the simplest way is add them to a circle and imagine the circle enlarges, but what I usually do is try to arrange them as rectangles or squares, which requires much more maths... :S It is usually the case that my head gets bit of slower than the count as the number increases and I'll think hard, which comes one of the thresholds. I'll either find it harder and harder to get the image of sheep arranging then fall asleep or simply dumped counting and remained awake.

The classic sheep counting is more likely to imagine the sheep jump over the fence one after another despite the number counted. But with numbers counting aloud I can't help myself concentrating on the ones that are in the fence... I must declare again that I ain't a math savvy, but I don't think one would believe if they only read this, I actually am not though...

I didn't know why am I writing such crap but there's a voice in me calling for it so here it is... Another thing is I found the quality of posts here gets worse with time... Maybe I should reduce the frequency of updating...

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