As if there weren't enough things to worry about these days to make one lie awake at night staring at the ceiling and trying to count sheep, add retirement to the mix.

That's according to a CreditCards.com poll, which finds that money woes in general are costing Americans plenty of shuteye, with 65 percent of them saying that the sheep just aren't helping when it comes to money woes.

In fact, money worries are approaching the nightmare status not seen since the Great Recession, when 2009 survey results indicated that 69 percent of people were unable to sleep because of them. That was up from 2007's 56 percent—and while the number of sleepless in Seattle and elsewhere dropped back a bit after the Great Recession, in both 2015 and 2016 it was at 62 percent.

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