8. Ever since we bought a TV/DVD player combo for the bedroom I've developed a list of "lullaby movies," movies that for some reason I find soothing enough to want to fall asleep while (sort of) watching them. Some of them are obvious choices, like March of The Penguins and Lost in Translation (a movie both beautiful and sad but so deliberately slow it can put me to sleep under almost any circumstance.)

Some of my lullaby movies are completely unexpected. Why do I find Lord of War and V For Vendetta calming? You'd think the machine guns and explosions and whatnot would have the opposite effect, but not so.