I can't sleep lately
 

I toss and turn all night and it takes me aggesssss to fall asleep.

and so now I dont want to go to bed.

I could get drunk. but then I havent had alcohol since the last time I got really drunk.. it makes me feel ill. maybe I've overcome it.\


sleep cures?

My sleep cycle is totally fucked too.

Like the other night I fall asleep at midnight, wake up at 5:30, can't sleep at all, so I just decide to stay up and I'm a zombie all day.

Then last night being so tired I go to bed at 1 AM, and I sleep til 2 PM.

Tonight I can't sleep and it is past 7 AM.

I have been a bit giddy lately, so maybe that is it.

I just took some benadryl, so my insomnia is going to go away pretty quick.

Here are my cures:
1. Masturbate
2. Take 2-3 antihystamines.
3. alcohol + antihystamines

A good book, but not so good that you don't want to put it down.

Some of the music referred to in this thread: Music that induces sleep. Suggestions?

Not alcohol - no sooner than you fall asleep than you'll wake up again needing to pee, and then you'll struggle to fall asleep all over again.

Grab a book, read like 20 pages and you'll sleep like a baby.

Holy shit, the exact same thing is happening to me and I can't figure out why!!

maybe its in the water

antihystamines dry my mouth out and make me drousy the next day.
and I got in trouble for the other one last night cos I woke him up shakin the bed.:p

I think I am going to drink.

needing to get up and pee once or twice and sleeping the rest of the time is better than not sleeping at all.

Just take one shot of whisky. Worked for me. Only I had to put up with the horrible taste for the next few minutes I was awake.

What's your caffeine intake?

What's your diet?

How much exercise do you get?

What's your alcohol consumption?

Are you under stress?

What do you do to relax?

Do you try to stick to a normal bedtime?

These are all questions you must address.

Most psychologists will recommend that you stick to regular sleep schedules, and that you get a minimum of eight hours of rest. You need eight hours of full restorative sleep, as a minimum. Everybody does. Anything less is bad for your mental and physical health.

Most psychologists will also recommend that you go to bed at your regular time and stay there, even when you can't sleep. Don't get up to do something else. Toss and turn if you have to, but stay there. This trains your body eventually to adhere to a regular time and schedule for sleep.

You must also not become dependent on artificial measures such as that shot of whiskey or a sleeping pill. This won't allow your body to become accustomed on a regular basis to the full restorative sleep you need.

When you start fucking with your sleep cycle, you do in fact fuck it up and make it hard to get back into a regular pattern.

Amend this now.

I've been going to be at 10:00 lately out of boredom.

normally, I would go to bed at about 1:00am but not for the last two weeks...

it sucks because I don't sleep through the night and end up getting less sleep than if I had just stayed up.

PS: in trouble for shaking the bed! shake it anyways imo.

Some serious in/out exercise will make you sleep like a baby with a smile on your face.

What, like breathing exercise?

I sleep alot better nowadays. I mean, I still don't sleep that much but I had a period in my life in which I slept a total of 12 hours a week. I was a wreck! I don't think you can do much about it, sleeping pills are garbage don't start with them.

Something like that. :p

i practised athletics since i was 9 until i was 17, from 14 to 17 i was doing mid to high competition and training 3 hours 3 or more days per week.

i am now 19 and my part-time job requires me to be sit in front of computer a great part of the day and i'm no longer a sprint runner but i feel the amounts of adrenaline are still there so unless i do some sort exercise it's hard for me lie on a pillow and fall asleep.

i am not even joking.

so yeah, exercise.. from hardcore guitar playing, sex or whatever
communist youth books work
drugs, alcohol.. work

I love waking up to see that I missed text messages. [/sarcasm] :(



does that hippie shit teach you how to work in a factory?

I'd take yr advice, but I don't want to be caught with subversive material when the next round of purges come.

see... those books are where i take the hippie talking from. i take them mostly humorously, i'm not a hippie or a communist.
i recommend you to read american latin communist youth books, it's higly amusing to read someone call ten times "puta de mierda" to pinochet in the same paragraph.
the kind of thing i like to read just before falling asleep.

Drink valium with your coffee.

lower the temperature of your room. too much heat will keep you awake.

brown spirits. no!

we have fans and air con, it isnt the temp.

What's your caffeine intake?
about a cup of coffee a day equivalent? like.. if i dont have a coffee, I'll have tea or two.

What's your diet?
a bit average at the moment but I take suppliments to try and help

How much exercise do you get?
less than I should but I do walk a fair bit now.

What's your alcohol consumption?
nada lately

Are you under stress?
sometimes, but not really.

What do you do to relax?
read, watch tv, sew, paint, draw, etc

Do you try to stick to a normal bedtime?
no thats boring. i go to bed when Im tired or earlier when i need to get up in the morning.

These are all questions you must address.
tick!

Most psychologists will recommend that you stick to regular sleep schedules, and that you get a minimum of eight hours of rest. You need eight hours of full restorative sleep, as a minimum. Everybody does. Anything less is bad for your mental and physical health.
yeh I get about 8. I know that rule. sometimes lower sometimes higher, I live, you know.

Most psychologists will also recommend that you go to bed at your regular time and stay there, even when you can't sleep. Don't get up to do something else. Toss and turn if you have to, but stay there. This trains your body eventually to adhere to a regular time and schedule for sleep.
in my experience that makes my insomnia worse. and its the opposite of what I've been told by my psychologists and doctors. :confused:

You must also not become dependent on artificial measures such as that shot of whiskey or a sleeping pill. This won't allow your body to become accustomed on a regular basis to the full restorative sleep you need.
I'm not dependant.

When you start fucking with your sleep cycle, you do in fact fuck it up and make it hard to get back into a regular pattern.
yep

Amend this now.
tick!

take a valium and watch BBC world news
works every time

this is what I used to do! But I'm better now.

I really think I do need to get more exercise. I'd like to swim more. Dunno what else. I have a sexy bike that needs new tyres. Maybe I should get that fixed and bike ride.

I can't lately either. I've done that thing where you badly screw up your natural schedule of sleep by staying out way too late for like more than 3 nights in a row. Now my body won't let me fall asleep until like 4 or 5 am. I hate it.

Another shitty thing that happens is I'll try to go to sleep at like 10 or 11 pm. I fall asleep no problem but I wake up at 3 am sharp, everytime, and then I'm unable to go back to sleep. I'll lie there trying like hell to relax and fall asleep but like 8 hours go by, 10 am comes, and I am super super pissed off.

the fucked up thing is, when I was abusing my body a lot more than I am now, my sleeping habbits were so much better. I dont even stay out late anymore!

I've had some sleep issues lately also, I hate not sleeping. Although when my son was a newborn I didn't really care and kinda looked forward to beeing awake at the strangest hours of the night/morning. It was cool, I would tend to him, put him back to sleep and there I was in a daze, listening to music, brain dead on the sofa. There was something about all of it, a clandestine spirit in the air. Or maybe I was just really tired and my brain was acting a bit giggly. Oh wel..........

it won't matter, if they need meat they will come for you.

they'll take my meat when they pry it from my cold dead fingers!

Fingers are mostly bone and gristle.

I doubt they'd want my fingers. not when they are gripping my meat.

You are not all silicon & steel, then.

you've been to the movies...

you can't cross the temporal barrier unless yr wrapped in flesh.

:rolleyes: <--- not eye-rolly enough.

WRONG

now yr just making fun of the fact that I'm an older model. :(

if they do, I will happily terminate them for you. :)

Time for an upgrade, maybe.

those are spare parts for your eyeballs. You can evan choose the color.