Move over Ambien my wife has discovered a new sleep aid, the Sherlock Holmes mysteries on MPBN. It is a wonderful series with Jeremy Brett playing Holmes and David Burke as Dr Watson. Jeremy Brett's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes is perhaps the best filmed version of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous detective, showcasing Holmes's dazzling brilliance without ignoring his unnerving intensity or drug dependencies. Dr Watson is also played as a steady companion and not a bumbling fool in the Sherlock Holmes movies of the 40's.
So this is how it plays out at our home as we begin to watch this program. My wife and I will be surfing the channels and finding nothing that we both want to watch. Then she will say " Why don't we watch the Sherlock Holmes stories that we have recorded on our DVR." So we start to watch and within 4 minutes my wife is fast asleep. Now this behaviour does not happen every once in a while. but every time we watch Sherlock Holmes adventures. And after last night I have discovered that it is all of the Sherlock Holmes adventures put her to sleep ,as confirmed by the watching of a Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce's Holmes movie last night . So I am chucking the Ambien and using the much safer Holmes as a sleep aid.
PS My wife has also fallen asleep reading this post.
So this is how it plays out at our home as we begin to watch this program. My wife and I will be surfing the channels and finding nothing that we both want to watch. Then she will say " Why don't we watch the Sherlock Holmes stories that we have recorded on our DVR." So we start to watch and within 4 minutes my wife is fast asleep. Now this behaviour does not happen every once in a while. but every time we watch Sherlock Holmes adventures. And after last night I have discovered that it is all of the Sherlock Holmes adventures put her to sleep ,as confirmed by the watching of a Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce's Holmes movie last night . So I am chucking the Ambien and using the much safer Holmes as a sleep aid.
PS My wife has also fallen asleep reading this post.
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To Quote the master:
Come, Willie, come! The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come! (The Adventure of the Abbey Grange)
Your wife falls asleep to Sherlock Holms?
How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth? (The Sign of the Four)
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable . . . Their most trivial action may mean volumes, or their most extraordinary conduct may depend upon a hairpin or a curling-tongs. (The Adventure of The Second Stain)
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner. (The Man with the Twisted Lip)
Or . . . maybe she is looking for a substitute for Amben.
Someone's a Sherlock fan me thinks.
My friend Nihad bought the complete works of Sherlock Holmes on sale at Waldenbooks. He then would read 5 pages each night before falling asleep. On the first night, he read pages 1-5. On the second night, he started on page 2 to try and remember what on earth he had been reading and fell asleep by page 6. On the third night, 3-7, and so on.
In other words, it doesn't just work as a sleep aid for your wife.
I think you've found a money maker, Willie!
Just don't listen to the audio books in the car!
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