Day 10- A Song That I Can Fall Asleep To- Somewhere in Time

Let me begin by saying, I learned something new today.  It's not often that I get surprised, but today is one of those days.  I will get to that in a second.  Today's challenge was to find a song that I can fall asleep to.  Easily done since I can fall asleep just about anytime.  If sleeping were an Olympic event, I could be a contender for the Gold!  I think that comes from working the night shift, and never actually having a regular sleep schedule.  The vampire schedule works well for me though, and I do like it.  It is only hard on the weekends when I switch over for 2 days to being up in the day and sleeping at night, and then juggle back in time for work on Mondays.  Some weeks are better than others. 

On those very rare occasions that I have trouble falling asleep, I go immediately to the soundtrack to the movie Somewhere in Time.  No matter what my mind is racing over (that is usually the only reason I cannot sleep), the score from this movie immediately relaxes and soothes me, sweeping me quickly and blissfully into oblivion. 

Somewhere in Time has been one of my favorite movies for 25 years or more.  I first remember seeing it in high school.  Jane Seymour, Christopher Reeve and Christopher Plummer star in it, and it is to be quite frank about it, a HUGE chick flick, but with an awful ending (I will not give it away, but for those who have seen it, you know what I mean).  It was filmed at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, and is mostly a period piece from the turn of the century.  We visited the Grand Hotel when I was a kid, but that was before I knew the movie.  If I were to have a "Bucket List", one of the items on it would be to return there, and thanks to the whole new view the movie has given me, see it again with new perspective.  When I do, I will have this music playing in my mind.  I just hope I do not fall asleep. 

BONUS INFO
It came as a great surprise to me, that Richard Matheson, the author of the story,  Somewhere in Time (originally titled Bid Time Return) has been quite a prolific storyteller.  I knew he had also penned What Dreams May Come, and Passion Play.  I ready all three of them  What shocked me was some of his other tales which include I am Legend, The Box, The Legend of Hell House and  Stir of Echos.  He wrote for the Twilight Zone, including the famous Terror at 20,000 Feet episode with a young William Shatner starring, as well as the introduction and closing statements spoken by Rod Serling.  He wrote for Star Trek.  I would never have connected him to such a vast array of works.  It amazed me, and I had to add it here for you as well.