How to get to sleep-what do you do :0

JustAThought · 09-09-2012 04:51AM #1

Feck.5am again & can't sleep. Will wake automatically at 8 feckin fifteen as always

3 1/2 hours sleep if I'm lucky

I've tried petting the dog, tried TV, tried After Hours & " walking" around the garden like a lunatic in my PJs . Still can't sleep.

What do you try, & then what works?

09-09-2012 05:02AM

Valium or sex.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 09-09-2012 05:02AM

I'd just stay up, its Sunday. If you're dying take a nap in the afternoon unless of course you have any other pressing issues happening. Either way you'll definitely sleep good later on tonight.

Scorpion Sting · 09-09-2012 05:08AM

All I remember before falling asleep is feeling very drowsy and then I can't remember anything at all after that.

JustAThought · 09-09-2012 05:15AM

jebforever wrote: »

All I remember before falling asleep is feeling very drowsy and then I can't remember anything at all after that.

Hmmm.'back To the Ops suggestion of bucket lodes of Valium so. Or other....
Still not sleeping

Sarah Bear · 09-09-2012 05:25AM

masturbate or have sex

Gummy Panda · 09-09-2012 07:18AM

Rub my belly

Autonomous Cowherd · 09-09-2012 08:20AM

Having once been a long time insomniac i suggest the following possible adjustments....

*drops of lavender oil on either side of you, on sheets or pillow
*Avena Sativa or Dormeasan...both herbal tinctures
*wearing socks...sounds daft.. but works surprisingly well
*sex...with self or partner
*NLP or Yoga Nidra tapes/cds when you just cannot drift off
*bathing with epsom salts (= magnesium = relaxation of muscles)
*accepting that there are things that are bothering you...write them down...acknowledge their existence...do what you can..and accept what you can't
*exercise - vigorous, outdoors - in the earlier part of the day
*quit or severely limit caffeine...includes chocolate...or at the most have it before lunch...(sorry :-( !)
*Daily Meditation. I recommend Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's book The Joy Of Living for a clear, useful description of same...
*Accepting not sleeping - accepting FULLY. No sweat. I once went 2 weeks with no more than brief snatched minutes, I'm still alive, and sleeping well at the moment. I go into phases of not sleeping and the sooner I relax and accept them fully, the sooner i get back to a pattern.
*warm milky drink does work for me - tryptophan perhaps?
*massage with lavender oil before bed....either on your own belly, or if you've got some one very nice in your life who will do your back...:-)
*write or paint out the issues in your life before trying to sleep

There are others...if I remember i'll get back...my go-to remedy is lavender oil...its cheap, cheerful and for me it really helps. Whats not to like?
best of Luck OP.

haydar · 09-09-2012 08:26AM

get off your computer /phone for a start

girl2 · 09-09-2012 08:26AM

Autonomous Cowherd wrote: »

Having once been a long time insomniac i suggest the following possible adjustments....

*drops of lavender oil on either side of you, on sheets or pillow
*Avena Sativa or Dormeasan...both herbal tinctures
*wearing socks...sounds daft.. but works surprisingly well
*sex...with self or partner
*NLP or Yoga Nidra tapes/cds when you just cannot drift off
*bathing with epsom salts (= magnesium = relaxation of muscles)
*accepting that there are things that are bothering you...write them down...acknowledge their existence...do what you can..and accept what you can't
*exercise - vigorous, outdoors - in the earlier part of the day
*quit or severely limit caffeine...includes chocolate...or at the most have it before lunch...(sorry :-( !)
*Daily Meditation. I recommend Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's book The Joy Of Living for a clear, useful description of same...
*Accepting not sleeping - accepting FULLY. No sweat. I once went 2 weeks with no more than brief snatched minutes, I'm still alive, and sleeping well at the moment. I go into phases of not sleeping and the sooner I relax and accept them fully, the sooner i get back to a pattern.
*warm milky drink does work for me - tryptophan perhaps?
*massage with lavender oil before bed....either on your own belly, or if you've got some one very nice in your life who will do your back...:-)
*write or paint out the issues in your life before trying to sleep

There are others...if I remember i'll get back...my go-to remedy is lavender oil...its cheap, cheerful and for me it really helps. Whats not to like?
best of Luck OP.

Don't think thats gonna work at 8.20am. OP wakens at 8.15am.

Lots of goo advice for tonight though

Autonomous Cowherd · 09-09-2012 08:29AM

You're right girl 2...how could I have been such a fool? :-D

and steady on Haydar...whats a body to do in the long lonely sleepless hours of the dead of the night? ;-)

wendell borton · 09-09-2012 08:30AM

Heres some advive form the who.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv99qGqJ6R4

theteal · 09-09-2012 08:31AM

I used to watch telly but had to give that up when I moved in with herself. now I read books on my phone and it has proven to be even more effective - if sitting up reading i could easily finish a book in one sitting but when lying down reading I'm regularly out cold within 3-5 pages

kwestfan08 · 09-09-2012 08:31AM

I always love listening to some music while i drift off to sleep. Something quiet and soothing like the xx or warpaint.

xzanti · 09-09-2012 08:35AM

My special brew sleepy tea (3 chamomile tea bags and one Valarian tea bag)

Then I have a read of a good book and.... ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz :cool:

Autonomous Cowherd · 09-09-2012 08:39AM

Yes, I second that xzanti...thats a good sleepy brew you make there...and since i started drinking loads of mint tea during the day i have been sleeping much much better, because not only is it a digestive and carminative, its also a sedative nervine...which i didn't know before it started working so well for me....

zenno · 09-09-2012 08:40AM

I have the opposite affect, i will be sitting here at the pc doing what i always do and then all of a sudden i faint from being awake for 3 hours and wake up with a creaky neck. As soon as i wake up i'm fresh as a daisy and 3 hours later i get tired and fall asleep again but sometimes in strange places and awake again to a creaky neck.

One way to fall asleep is to lie back and listen to coast to coast am radio on the ear-phones and if that doesn't put you to sleep then i don't know. Just don't drink soft drinks before you do go for a sleep.

Sunnyisland · 09-09-2012 08:41AM

Every morning I wake up at 06.30/07.00 no matter what time I go asleep at, Sometimes I would love to be able to sleep right through till 8 or 9 :-(

bbam · 09-09-2012 08:49AM

ZMA.
It's just a supplement but it gives great sound sleeps and crazy vivid dreams its done wonders for my sleep

uberalles · 09-09-2012 09:08AM

Try give up coffee / tea. They only give a short term lift and are alien to your. I sleep like a lamb now aft giving that poison up

xzanti · 09-09-2012 09:10AM

Autonomous Cowherd wrote: »

Yes, I second that xzanti...thats a good sleepy brew you make there...and since i started drinking loads of mint tea during the day i have been sleeping much much better, because not only is it a digestive and carminative, its also a sedative nervine...which i didn't know before it started working so well for me....

Must try that

thanks

mikemac1 · 09-09-2012 09:13AM

Read those stories about Brett

I don't get the hype, booooooring

xzanti · 09-09-2012 09:13AM

bbam wrote: »

ZMA.
It's just a supplement but it gives great sound sleeps and crazy vivid dreams its done wonders for my sleep

Is that the stuff Bodybuilders take? Or could anyone use it without turning into Jodie Marsh?

Buck Fizz · 09-09-2012 09:23AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmbmNp1RDCE

zenno · 09-09-2012 09:45AM

xzanti wrote: »

Is that the stuff Bodybuilders take? Or could anyone use it without turning into Jodie Marsh?

It might not turn you into jodie marsh but It might shrink your twinkle and ball-sack. Not recommended, better off doing 100 pushups and then lie down and try to sleep.

jessiejam · 09-09-2012 09:54AM

My friend swears by magnesium supplements, no tea, coffee or sugary foods after 7. Assuming you have gone down the looking at your eating habits, the following always works for me -

Lie flat on your back hands by your side.
In your mind picture a pencil starting at the top of your head. Trace (in your mind) a line around every inch of your body, in between your fingers and toes etc. When the imaginary pencil gets back up to the top of your head, concentrate on relaxing every single muscle in your body. You would be surprised what muscles are clenched and you don't even realise it.

Start at relaxing your forhead, eyes mouth shoulders, upper arms fingers and so on.
This always works for me, I usually don't remember getting to my lower body.
Good luck with it try it a few times and let me know how it goes.

Gummy Panda · 09-09-2012 09:56AM

zenno wrote: »

xzanti wrote: »

Is that the stuff Bodybuilders take? Or could anyone use it without turning into Jodie Marsh?

It might not turn you into jodie marsh but It might shrink your twinkle and ball-sack. Not recommended, better off doing 100 pushups and then lie down and try to sleep.

zma is a steroid now? lol

its patented ratio of zinc and magnesium. The magnesium part is what helps people sleep.

gozunda · 09-09-2012 10:02AM

Stilnocht - prescription
Nytol
Kalms Sleep

also use black out blinds / sleep mask etc

Autonomous Cowherd · 09-09-2012 10:06AM

Sshhhhh, guys, OP has been asleep since about 5.15 am....awww.

Scioch · 09-09-2012 10:10AM

When I wake in the morning I'd very easily fall back to sleep if I let myself. That usually consists of continuing a dream I had instead of just rousing myself.

So at night when I have trouble sleeping I try to remember a recent dream and continue it. Draws your mind back into abstract mode or something and allows you to drift off instead of being stuck in the loop.

ltdslipdiff · 09-09-2012 10:16AM

OP -

Look in to my eyes...not at my eyes.....in to them.....

ZMA does work though,very well.

How to get to sleep-what do you do :0

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