For Sleepless Summer Nights: Nerd Connection's 'Good Night Good Dream'

There are nights when sleep just won't come. It's not that anything's weighing on you — your eyes simply stay wide open. The damp air left behind after the rainy season pools in the room, and every so often a car passes somewhere far off. On nights like that, I turn off every light and play this song, very quietly.

The title of this Nerd Connection song is already a greeting handed to someone. Sleep well, it says. Sweet dreams. The song is in no hurry. The guitar plucks out a few careful notes, and the voice settles low beside you, like someone tucking the blanket up around your shoulders.

The deeper the night gets, the bigger everything feels, doesn't it. Things that meant nothing by day keep swelling once it's dark. This song doesn't force that swollen heart back down. It just sits beside you and quietly says, let's only think this far for today.

However your day went, some nights a simple good night is enough.

There are nights you want to play this song for someone else, and nights you want to play it for yourself. Tonight is the latter. I leave the window open a crack, let the humid breeze drift through, and simply let this season's night slip by.

Tomorrow's worries can wait for tomorrow. For now, there's just this — 'Good Night Good Dream.'