Arrgy\h!! It is now 3:03AM and I cannot sleep. I have been awake since 9AM. I said goodnight to my ladyfriend on AIM over 2 hours ago!! I told her I was tired and needed sleep, and I still AM/ARE/DO! I want to get up at 9AM and go to work, but at this rate I’ll still be awake. Tel; me how I can get to sleep! I am tired, I keep thinking. Can’t drfit off, tried reading. My cat is b ecoming increasingly annoyed with me…
Now I can’t even type correctly.
I’m dying of tiredness, why can’t I sleep?
Sing loudly until you get tired out. Or take a shower. Do both.
This is why I avoid getting into conversations late in the evening. Because if I do, I’ll continue the conversation in my own head for hours and not be able to sleep.
Can’t sing. Roomates and cat will become angered.
Lie in bed anyway and relax. Try some deep breathing and stop worrying just laying there will do 80% of the good that sleeping would do. The urge to sleep comes in waves and if you miss one you often have to wait an hour or so for the next one. If you miss it because you are doing something then you may have to wait another hour.
I had one of these nights a few weeks ago. For no reason at all I couldn’t fall asleep. In the end I slept for about 90 minutes or maybe 2 hours, went to work and managed OK. I thought I was going to die but, as this post proves, I didn’t.
Relax, relax, relax. And turn off the bloody PC.
This may work for some, but most sleep docs will tell you exactly the opposite–don’t lie in bed for more than fifteen or twenty minutes if you can’t go to sleep. I used to be a bad insomniac, and this one piece of advice helped me a lot.
The main thing, though, is to not worry about it; worrying only makes it worse. You have to learn to say, “Oh well, can’t sleep, gonna feel like crap tomorrow.” Oddly enough, this will make getting to sleep easier.
That advice is true if you are attempting to correct the sleep hygiene of a poor sleeper but as I said in my post if it’s out of the blue just lay down and relax.
Sleep docs only recommend not staying in bed so that you strengthen the association between bed and sleep. How this works with sex has always worried me. Maybe more use is made of the dining room table.
The sleep doc I’ve worked with said that the bed should only be used for sleeping and sex.
At different times I guess.
I heard you should get up and do something bnon sleep related for a while then repeat the whole going to bed business again, brush teeth get dressed/undressed etc.
Well, I finally managed to get to sleep around 4. I took the advice, got out of bed, and washed dishes for awhile, then was able to fall asleep. Thanks all!
I’ve never had any bouts of insomnia or real sleeping problems, but I do have occassions where I’m wide awake and need to sleep and wake up again in 6 or 7 hours. When I have to force myself to sleep, I usually drink a beer. 20 minutes later, I’ll fall asleep wherever I am. 1 beer knocks me out. 2 makes me want to party.
I usually find that a hot rum toddy or cocoa and Irish whisky, combined with some Joyce (never have made it far into Ulysses)does the trick, but then, I’m a chronic insomniac who counts it as good if I get five hours a night. Overindulgence (of alcohol) will put you down but not for a restful sleep.
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That’s exactly what I came to recommend. If I’m lying there awake, I just say to myself, “Well, I might as well do something productive. I’ll go do those dishes (scrub the floor, do a load of laundry, whatever).” Then, I either get up and clean, or the mere thought of housework causes a crashing wave of exhaustion to pull me under. Usually the latter.
Gabe, next time read some of your own posts. They always work for me.
Thanks. I guess. :dubious:
i’m just the opposite. I all asleep in 2 minutes, about 9:30 and wake up like clockwork at 3am.
next time try a bowl of cereal. Or …‘touch yourself’.