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I live in a large downtown apartment building and there's some kind of problem going on with people lighting fires in the hallway. We've been evacuated in the middle of the night four times in the last five nights. Every time it happens, I'm up for the rest of the night due to the blaring alarms and the adrenaline rush of it all. So I'm up after just a few hours in bed, and there's nothing I can do to get back to sleep. I've tried every kind of visualization and relaxation technique I can think of, but I just can't get back to sleep and I can't survive on 3 or 4 hours of sleep a night. Anyone know how to shed a fight or flight response when I'm awake enough to swim across the Columbia River in the dark with a child on my shoulders?