insomnia !!!!
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- Spookytim0
I have that type of insomnia frequently. I've devised a way to deal with it that works really well for me and a few others who've tried it. Never try to cure insomnia with drink or drugs, it makes it worse not better.
Anyway, at the point where you think you have had enough of lying awake overthinking you should get up, get a small glass of water, crank up your computer/laptop and write for twenty minutes. Try write soemthing that makes absolutely no sense at all but flows as though it does have meaning. It takes a bit of practise to get the hang of it, but you basically start off a sentence and drop in wrong words in places where they fit. Before long you start to work with a narrative flow that underpins what is essentially nonsense. Do it for twenty minutes maximum, then red it back, then go to bed. Get comfortable, lie in the position you most frequently wake up in, and relax.
Your brain will be derailed from its train of thought, and occupied with a big cloud of babble that it can't get to grips with.
- Blimy, by that reckoning you have about 20 bouts of amnesia a day!creative-
- designerror0
I find drinking lots of water helps me.
Also, turn computer, tv and other moving images off at 10 and read instead.
- i second the reading. If I read for at least 30min before bed, I'm out.arthur
- vespa0
alcohol makes it worse.
exercise after work.
don't eat after 8 pm.
no caffeine after 5 pm.
- skt0
stupid amounts of drink is the only thing that works for me.
- got leathered last nite and no still no sleep. blazing fuckin hangover thoWeLoveNoise
- Spookytim0
Is it thought related? ie are you laying there with pressing thoughts constantly going round your mind unable to find resolution?
- def thought related
tried not thinking......... dnt workWeLoveNoise - turn on the light and read for a bit - will clear your head.arthur
- def thought related
- WeLoveNoise
Literally finding impossible to hit a state of sleep for over 2 wks now.
Anyone got any good advice to cure insomnia?