Sleeping like a Goblin

First, align all your sheets and pillows perfectly so that you can satisfactorily mess them up.

Then add to the bed a collection of uncomfortable things to sleep on top of, books, laptops, paper, and pens, the harder and pointier they are the better.  

Make sure some of the objects end up underneath edges of the blankets and some of them on top so you don't know where any of them are really.

Then bunch up your blankets into the perfect nesting configurations.  Piled and heaped and knotted and only covering random portions of the bed.  

Now clump and mush your pillows up into lumpy and odd shapes.

Next pick your favorite object, such as a rusty screwdriver or a moldy turnip, and place it near the pillows so you can cuddle with it in the night.

Throw yourself into this misshapen nest and flail about with your limbs until you are just as tangled amidst the pillows and blankets as they are with each other.  

Now you are ready for the finest night of goblin sleep where your feet are never quite covered by blankets, you get jabbed with random objects throughout the night and your head is never fully comfortably supported by pillows.

You will toss.  

You will turn.  

You will wage a sleepy war with bedding and unseen jabby things.  

Oh the tangle!

Sheets all mangled!

You will find, that at least once in the night, one or more limbs will be trapped in a contortion of knotted sheets that is completely impossible to sort out in the dark.  

You will sleep here.

You will throw limbs there.

You will never once be satisfied with the arrangement of anything until the moment you are meant to get up in the morning.

Then you can arise, knowing that your status as a Goblin is secure.  

You will have failed at blanket management skills.  

You will have slept like a feral lizard trying to escape the nesting you made for it.

You will be a proud and worthy Goblin.

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