* regarding other ideas for imagery: depends what calms you during the day, anytime: if it is the touch of fur (your dog)- you may actually pet him if he is there or have a small pet toy with you with fur that you can hold close and touch. It may be a sound (there are or were “sleep machines” for sale that play nothing but falling rain on one setting, a train on another…) and it may be a visual imagery of nature… even the imagery of a person’s face, a person that is calming to you, smiling at you. And anything of nature- the sight of an endless, quiet desert, or the top of a mountain, all alone there. It can be the imagery of being inside a .. a hug, an embrace, someone hugging you and you sleep inside that hug….

anita