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Okay, this is stupid, but is he checking his answering machine? I don't know what that has to do with him going to sleep, though.
What about, is he setting a wake-up call? Can you do that without speaking?

Was he phoning a sleep hypnotist?

Sorry but,nope to all!

G-Mom

Ok, here I am. It's morning two, thus my third cup of coffee on this puzzle. The whole world has probably changed overnight...politically, socially, economically....and I'm still stumped on this puzzle!

So, did he phone Dial-A-Prayer? for a good-night prayer?

Did the person on the other end of the phone say something like "Sorry, we don't deliver pizza to prison cells!" so he gave up and went back to sleep?

He didn't speak because he'd gotten a wrong number?

Oh, where's that cup o'mine, gotta wake up better!

Merme

Merme. Maybe he phoned a wrong number like you said, felt to tired to phone again, decided to try again in the morning.

Is he a mute and just waned to hear friendly voice?

I don't suppose he's in a hospital bed, and called the nurses' station to get someone to come adjust his bed down so he can go to sleep?

Nope,boy I never thought this would be such a stumper!

G-Mom

Was he a sleepwalker?

Okay, clearly it's time for hints!
Was the call made on a regular telephone?
Or perhaps it was made on a laptop computer?
Did he call a psychic?

It was a regular telephone...and heres a monkey wrench to throw in the works...he could hear it when it rang.

G-Mom

The man is on vacation in Vegas and his friends/parents are staying in the hotel room next door, and the pre-arranged signal to check in when they get back late at night is to call next door,let it ring once and hang up??? So he's just checking in????

He can't sleep because he lost his cell-phone, so he calls himself to find it, then goes to sleep?

Or maybe his dog his dog ate his cell-phone, and they're waiting for it to pass, and he wanted to check its progress?

He's a blind man who thinks his wife is running around on him, so he calls HER cell-phone to check up on her, and when he hears it ring, he knows she's at home, so he goes to sleep?

This one is driving me CRAZY!!

He lives in an apartment building with paper-thin walls and his neigbour's bed is on the other side of the wall to his bed. He hears his neighbour snoring so phones - his neighbour stops snoring when waking up to answer the phone, allowing the first man to fall asleep?

This puzzle is so difficult to solve because it doesn't have enough clearly defined parameters. Several of our solutions fit the initial problem as stated, now it is just a process of elimination and truly it could go in many directions.

Merme

Cricket, I think you got it! I'm betting on thin walls to be the answer. WTG, girl!

Yah!!! Cricket got it

G-Mom

Last one for this thread:

An ordinary American citizen, with no passport, visits over thirty foreign countries in one day. How is this possible?

Visits them on the internet?

G-Mom

Spot on G-Mom
Well l hope that is the answer you never know.

Nope, and not in books, either.
Physically visits them.

ls he a ghost?

Is he a pilot traveling the globe,going east so he is adjusting his time back

That doesn't make much sense...does it

Does this have something to do with embassies? I think they are considered part of the country who runs them regardless of their location.