Mind bondage-1

It helped that Pamela sat gracefully down on one and nothing came skittering out.

I sat on the other couch and faced her. She leaned towards me and I found myself inexplicably wishing that she were wearing a shirt with a lower neckline.

“I think it is wonderful, first of all, that you don’t want to become dependent on drugs to help you sleep. Sleep is a natural part of our lives and we should all be able to do it, without any extra chemical aids beyond what our own bodies produce. Besides, adding extra chemicals into our bodies never really lets us have the right kind of sleep, does it?”

“No, it doesn’t,” I agreed and stifled a yawn. The couch was quite soft and comfortable and, at this moment, felt a whole lot better than my bed had in months.

“How much sleep are you getting each night, on average, without any added chemicals? I use the word chemicals rather than drugs, because most people don’t realize that alcohol, for example is a drug. Anything that we ingest into our bodies can be considered a drug. What we ingest, whether it be chocolate or morphine, has a real chemical effect on our bodies. So, what I am asking is how your sleep is on nights that you neither drink alcohol, nor take anything specifically to aid your sleep.”