But you'll get nowhere. When you don't sleep, you're more sensitive. It's as if your skin is peeled back. Some of these demons that come in the night can't get in during the daytime. In another culture, people may regard those nighttime experiences as far more important than getting a good night's sleep, because it's a chance to meet the other world.
Insomnia demands a whole new approach to night and sleep, or else it is only a misery.
As for the old person telling the same story for the thousandth time - our problem is that we haven't learned how to listen to it anew. I know in my own case, I could not listen to my mother's stories again and again, but I could listen to my grandmother's stories, which my mother could not bear.