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I think it's good sometimes to laugh in the face of problems... so i just Googled "jokes sleep" and found this one (now why didn't i think of that?):

Eddy went to a psychiatrist. "Doc," he said, "I've got trouble. Every time I get into bed, I think there's somebody under it. I get under the bed, I think there's somebody on top of it. Top, under, top, under. "You gotta help me, I'm going crazy!"

"Just put yourself in my hands for two years," said the shrink. "Come to me three times a week, and I'll cure your fears."

"How much do you charge?"

"A hundred dollars per visit."

"I'll sleep on it," said Eddy.

Six months later the doctor met Eddy on the street. "Why didn't you ever come to see me again?" asked the psychiatrist.

"For a hundred buck's a visit? A bartender cured me for ten dollars."

"Is that so! How?"

"He told me to cut the legs off the bed!"

That was good joke.

A man absolutely hated his wife's cat and decided to get rid of him one day by driving him 20 blocks from his home and leaving him at the park.

As he was getting home, the cat was walking up the driveway.

The next day he decided to drive the cat 40 blocks away. He put the beast out and headed home.

Driving back up his driveway, there was the cat!

He kept taking the cat further and further and the cat would always beat him home. At last he decided to drive a few miles away, turn right, then left, past the bridge, then right again and another right until he reached what he thought was a safe distance from his home and left the cat there.

Hours later the man calls home to his wife: "Ann, is the cat there?"

"Yes", the wife answers, "why do you ask?"

Frustrated, the man answered, "Put him on the phone, I'm lost and need directions!"

Holly, this was a lovely joke. can you imagine the expressions of this man?

You mean to say that man laughed?

I don't know, but i hope he did!

Three lawyers and three engineers were traveling by train to the same meeting. At the station, the lawyers each buy a ticket but the engineers buy just one. When asked why, the engineers coyly said "You'll see."

They all board the train, the lawyers taking seats, but the three engineers all crowding into the bathroom. After the train has left, the conductor comes around and takes the lawyers tickets and knocks on the bathroom door and says, "Ticket please." An arm stretches out from the bathroom and the
conductor takes the proffered ticket. The lawyers were very impressed.

On the return trip, the lawyers proposed to emulate the engineers and bought only one ticket. To their amazement, the engineers bought no ticket at all. When asked, the engineers said, "You'll see."

All board the train and the lawyers and engineers cram into separate bathrooms to await the conductor. After a few minutes,
one of the engineers emerges from the bathroom, goes over to the lawyers' bathroom, knocks on the door and says: "Ticket
please."

I watched a comedy today.

That's good.

I have been playing with my cat. I had a acquaintance who took in a rescue dog who had been mistreated. I learned a lot from one off-hand remark she made. She said, "I'm trying to teach this dog a sense of humor."

I'd never realized before that like humans, some pets have a good sense of humor and others do not. And a sense of humor can, indeed, be taught, and help both humans and animals to be more confident and secure.

My cat is also a rescue animal, and either he did not have a sense of humor when i got him, or we didn't understand eachothers' senses of humor. Together we've been coming up with more games we can play. For instance now he understands that when i act "threatening" in certain ways that it is a good game and he's not afraid and it has helped to build trust and his security. I'll use my "big voice" and wave my arms or stomp and he knows it's time for play! He likes confrontational games, so this lets him be a wild tiger without being truly aggressive. He's learned that i won't ever hurt him, and he is gradually learning to be gentle and not bite hard.