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phoenix 01.16.2008 07:04 AM

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?

SpectralJulianIsNotDead 01.16.2008 07:13 AM

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

sonicl 01.16.2008 07:13 AM

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.

_slavo_ 01.16.2008 07:20 AM

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

ZEROpumpkins 01.16.2008 07:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phoenix
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?

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

phoenix 01.16.2008 07:32 AM

maybe its in the water

phoenix 01.16.2008 07:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead
Here are my cures:
1. Masturbate
2. Take 2-3 antihystamines.
3. alcohol + antihystamines



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

phoenix 01.16.2008 07:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sonicl

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.


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.

ZEROpumpkins 01.16.2008 07:41 AM

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.

gmku 01.16.2008 07:45 AM

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.

floatingslowly 01.16.2008 08:47 AM

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.

Tokolosh 01.16.2008 08:51 AM

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

ZEROpumpkins 01.16.2008 08:53 AM

What, like breathing exercise?

Trasher02 01.16.2008 08:55 AM

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.

Tokolosh 01.16.2008 08:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZEROpumpkins
What, like breathing exercise?


Something like that. :p

█████████ 01.16.2008 09:16 AM

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

floatingslowly 01.16.2008 09:46 AM

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


Quote:

Originally Posted by █████████
communist youth books


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.

█████████ 01.16.2008 10:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by floatingslowly
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.

sarramkrop 01.16.2008 10:01 AM

Drink valium with your coffee.

!@#$%! 01.16.2008 12:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phoenix
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?


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


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