Drifting off to sleep, my habit has always been to daydream. For me, that consists of imagining stereotypical good vs evil adventures where I save the world. Well, that was 8 years ago. The stories have evolved to confront more personal demons. But in the last few years, especially this year, it feels like I am forcing it. I don't have anything to daydream about. The stories are too one-dimensional and have been revisited too many times. Besides, I am not trying to write a novel with a good story, I am trying to fall asleep.

Now, I am wondering if time has come to let go and stop daydreaming. It saddens me a bit because I always thought it would be something I would do until the end of time, I did it so much. I wonder if it is the process of aging, like the way there came a time where I stopped getting satisfaction from inventing stories with my Legos.

And daydreaming maybe is the reason I don't do my mantra/intention before sleep. But I find concentrating on my dreaming practice as I fall asleep actually makes it harder to fall asleep, because I feel aware. I know feeling aware does not necessarily go against sleep but I have no experience with WILDs.

What are your thoughts on this? Do you daydream as you go to sleep or do you do something else, or nothing for the matter?