See the link everyone...Pink!
Nope.
Been falling asleep to Floyd almost every night since I started this thread.
They're certainly a nice way to slip off to sleep, Johnny. For a period I used to get night terrors as a child, between the age of 4 & 7, & my folks would recount stories of them being woken by my "blood-curdling screams & animalistic growling". They'd come in & flip the light on to find me standing in the corner of the bedroom clawing at the wall or under the bed ripping away at the base of my mattress as though I'd been buried etc. At one point I tore both the doors off the built-in cupboards in my room as a 6 year-old. I'd have absolutely zero recollection of it other than waking in the morning feeling sore & exhausted- no doubt distressing as hell for any parent. Given the isolation of where I grew up in Arnhem Land there was no sleep therapists or kiddie shrinks etc, so my parents did the best they could to manage my terrors. 18mths after the terrors started Mum & Dad resorted to Pink Floyd as a way of calming me through the night. They would quietly have Floyd playing in my bedroom to send me off to sleep- the old man went to Darwin & specifically bought a tape player that would automatically loop-play cassette tapes & he'd sit there putting together these awesome Pink Floyd compilations for me. Recently Dad made comment that he found it particularly surreal & eerie that as a 5yr my favourite song was Comfortably Numb- apparently I'd sing it pitch perfect & with a level of conviction that made it quite confronting & on a few occasions my renditions would hit such a nerve with my Mum that she'd have to leave the room to cry. Pretty fucked up stuff. I've never had any issues since that time, but I look back on it now & can only begin to imagine how that must've messed with their heads, terrified that I'd grow to be some fucked-up teen etc.
To this day I still semi-regularly put Pink Floyd on to fall asleep to, particularly whenever I'm going through a stressful period.
I'm not a religious man, but I do consider myself agnostic. And if I had to identify with an establishment/place of spiritual enrichment then yeah, Pink Floyd's the nearest thing to being my church.
