insomnia?
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- marky_brown0
If you do enough regular exercise you'll sleep fine ... boring but true.
- Bender0
I watch Seinfeld, and I never get past the first five minutes.
This is after having tried just about everything under the sun.
- 23kon0
i thought i had really bad insomnia for years but then i gave up drinking tea or coffee in the evenings and i get to sleep ok.
stimulants like that, even the tiniest amount can keep you awake. stuff like smoking grass is bad for keeping thoughts wandering and keeping you awake.
try giving up tea/coffee in evenings if you drink it then.
dont lie in bed worrying about not being able to get back to sleep, go through to another room and sit reading a book or magazine (tv or pc will just waken you more). then when you feel tired - go back to bed.
the reason you are doing this is so that your body doesnt associate "lying in bed" with "not being able to get to sleep".
ya dig?
- Lifeinvector0
Or if you're not into the Eastern practices, how about something more psychological. Like as soon as you wake up, tell yourself – "Tomorrow I can think about these things. But now is the time for sleep."
Just an idear. ;)
- Lifeinvector0
There is something you can do to shut down your thoughts. I have been practicing it a lot lately. Thoughts are usually a reflection of either the past or the future – usually worry over something. People spend so much time worrying in their lives, and for what reason? Worry never, ever changes anything. It only brings stress to your body.
The present moment is what can help you escape your thoughts. There are lots of ways to get in that mode. Breathing exercises, for example. (Or simply listening to what's around you right now.) Meditation was designed to quiet the thoughts in your mind.
Take deep, deep breaths. Concentrate on the feelings inside your body. Focus on your belly & the air being pushed in & out. – Do this every night before you sleep & it will become easier & easier over time.
(This concept of living in the present has changed my life recently, btw. If you're interested, I can recommend some books.)
- Witt0
I'm sure you'll be sound asleep by the time I post this solution to your problem.
- janne760
i am drinking tea that will force me to sleep
- blaw0
Everyone I speak to seems to receive great benefits from a regular yoga routine. Adding a few days of exercise that concentrated on getting the mind focused and relaxed may be the ticket. Good luck and feel better soon.
- SkyPoo0
I suffer with insomnia really bad. My method is to write something that makes no sense. I used to write nonsense for about an hour, but recently I've noticed it takes only ten minutes. I make sentences according to the rules of sentence making, and the sentences generally form a narrative of sorts, but I deliberately make the whole thing out of entirely wrong words, and it derails my brain from whatever thoughts occupy it. I read it back two or three times, making corrections and amends... just like its a real piece of copy... and in that way my mind becomes consumed by it, superceding whatever my mind was railing on beforehand. Its imprtant to put all your concentration and focus on it becuase when you go to bed and your brain starts to think it through and make corrections that are all uter gobbledeegook so it can't get a grip on anything logical. Next thing you know, its morning.
- Now you have QBN to write on?Jnr_Madison
- SKYPOOOOdigdre
- I drop them in the blog thread sometimes. I'm dying for someone else to start doing it so I can...SkyPoo
- ... establish a website for insomnia prose and start a new form of literary expression. The Insomniists.SkyPoo
- wouldn't know anything about that, but I do have a nice pouch full of green arms here.killthefish
- Kapow!SkyPoo
- Jnr_Madison0
I've never had a problem with it, sounds heavy though.
- lolNairn
- ..and then, weeps slightlyNairn
- ..fall to knees, remembers why I had knee pads on.Jnr_Madison
- Well, blow me.
Strewth.Nairn
- centro0
I suffer from it.
Instead of shutting your eyes and hoping to fall asleep - try keeping your eyes open. You will start to feel sleepy.
- Marcelom0
janne76, arent you gay?
- queerer than a $3 bill.Russell_Sprout
- me, that is.Russell_Sprout
- janne760
fapsomnia
- Marcelom0
maybe a good handjob with some vids at www.pornhub.com
and you are done.
- Nairn0
Only time I sleep really, really well is when I go skiing.
Or when I used to do manual labour summer jobs during Uni.
- hmmm, fresh air/physical activity = sleep maybe?Russell_Sprout
- Aye, which is pretty hard for a graphic designer,spending all day on his arse! (I'm changing career soon, to something a ..Nairn
- little bit more physically-involving... And no, I'm not becoming a rent boy, before someone suggests it...Nairn
- what is a rent boy?Russell_Sprout
- is that like a chav? white pants and all.Russell_Sprout
- A boy for rent? kinda self-explanatory!
http://www.urbandict…Nairn - ahh, boy for rent and rent boy, two very different things. http://www.siteforre…Russell_Sprout
- Nairn0
Actually, fariska has a point - read dull stuff.
Though, there's a couple of relatively dry periodicals I read a lot of, starting with the, because they were so dry, they'd bore me to sleep.
Now though, I'm kind of into them - so will happily read them cover to cover, then turn on the internet to read more.
Je suis doomed.
- WeLoveNoise0
i dont have it anymore cos i have these cute little things called drugs
- Nairn0
Yup. I'm a 'fretter'. My sleeping 'pattern' is all over the shop and I'm afraid I have no useful, healthy suggestions for you.
My entire life, I've not been able to just 'stop thinking'. When I was a kid, I'd lay awake at night, thinking. Same when I was at school, at uni, at a 9-5, when I had a company that was doing well, when I thought I was about to get arrested, when I thought London was going to get fucked-on (2005 - not a great period in my life), when I had a year off and didn't have to worry about ANYTHING, and now, when I have no cause to.
My mind just turns over and over and over. I can't distract it because then the distraction consumes me - work, books, internet, films, games, whatever - I'll just keep at it 'til the sun comes up.
I try and avoid caffeine after 6pm.
I start smoking weed after 6pm.
I have backup sleeping pills/sedatives for knocking myself out should I need to guarantee a certain amount of sleep.
I know that alcohol seriously affects my sleep (it'll knock me out for 4 hours or so - but then I'll wake up, feeling awful, unable to get back to sleep = part of the reason I don't drink much any more)I'm 'lucky' in that I now work from home, and/or have always worked in an environment where specific hours didn't matter too much.
So yeah - I feel your pain.
- poor nairn! it sounds like my problem but more severe. i had serious insomnia in my 20s and it's been replaced by this now.sputnik2