Insomnia beating tricks

[stompy]

Hot milk should help, since it releases some chemicals that help put your body to sleep (serotonin is the chemical that pops into mind, though I'm probably wrong).

Your body goes to sleep when your body temperature reduces by ~.3C (or so I've heard), so I suggest keeping well ventilated, and I personally can't sleep well in socks (unless of course I'm camping, where it's bloody cold!), so I suggest not wearing socks as well.

Also, don't drink alcohol before bedtime. Alcohol messes with brain functions, so it's not advisable if you want to go to sleep. Try and keep the stimuli away, like music (noises in general), other people and lights (if you're like me).

Exercise will also help, tiring out your body and making it require sleep to recuperate. Sorry to break the immature bush beating, but sex, if I remember my Yr 7 PE class, is like running a marathon in terms of physical exercise, so itshould theorteically help to have a 'lady friend' (or guy if you roll that way) to 'assist' you in sleeping.

 

[slowpoke219]

What happened that your about to be homeless? I know I wouldn't be able to snooze if I was about to wind up on the street. Maybe thats your stress right there. Maybe on a subconscious level.

 

[Mnemophage]

Y'now those people who tell you not to drink caffeine after 12? They're only halfway right. If bedtime is 12, load up on caffeine at around 9:30. The crash will hit you just when you need to sleep. If your problem is getting to sleep, rather than staying asleep, this should help. I've taken to drinking tea in the evenings - a cup or two gives you less of a jangly buzz than coffee while still allowing you to drift pleasantly off when you need to.

If not that, nightcap! A single, stiff drink about half an hour before bed will chill you down just enough to make sleeping easier. This is especially nice in wintertime when you can get yourself some cognac and watch the world bury itself outside.

 

[Mnemophage]

Exercise will also help, tiring out your body and making it require sleep to recuperate.

I don't know about you, but exercise gets me pumped up and full of energy - at first. If you desperately need to go to sleep this second my god I have to be up in three hours, don't start doing jumping jacks, it'll work opposite to what you intend. If you work out an hour to two hours before you sleep, though, that'll give your body a chance to settle down and realize it's tired.

 

[stompy]

Exercise will also help, tiring out your body and making it require sleep to recuperate.

I don't know about you, but exercise gets me pumped up and full of energy - at first. If you desperately need to go to sleep this second my god I have to be up in three hours, don't start doing jumping jacks, it'll work opposite to what you intend. If you work out an hour to two hours before you sleep, though, that'll give your body a chance to settle down and realize it's tired.

Yes, sorry, I should've elaborated on that. Thanks.

 

[Soycopter]

Take a train to NY, go into a dark alley and ask for 'The Stuff' Go home and proceed to use said stuff, sit back, relax, and wait.

 

[GenHellspawn]

I have one, but, erm, I've never been banned, and now's not a time to start.
Just gotta figure it out for yourself.

Heh heh, I was going to say that as well.

 

[Ultrajoe]

I have one, but, erm, I've never been banned, and now's not a time to start.
Just gotta figure it out for yourself.

Heh heh, I was going to say that as well.

Oddly enough the forum is pretty open to a more adult concept, if you don't be a dick or a jerk about it.

At least i hope were thinking about the same thing.

Rubix cube right?

 

[countrysteaksauce]

Just watch TV, put on the sleep timer, eventually something will give

 

[-Z-]

My advice is to live with it. Just don't sleep. Too many people think of insomnia as a condition; it's not. It's a f#cking life style. Right now it's 5 in the morning where I am. I woke up at 3 in the morning. After going to sleep at 2:30 in the afternoon yesterday. I'll probably be up until 2 in the morning today.

It keeps my enemies guessing.

Alternately, if you work or have to be somewhere or just don't want to become a weird nocturnal subhuman abomination like myself (trust me, it's worth it) than I suggest valerium root. It works, its natural and it actually tastes pretty good.

I'm with you all the way, if its a lifestyle you find that hinders you change it, if not Enjoy the ride and remember you'll get enough sleep when your dead!

 

[ElephantGuts]

Yeah, doing something during the day usually helps. I usually cant get to sleep until 1 or 2 because I sit at my computer/xbox all day. Also, breathing air that hasn't gone through an AC system first helps.

 

[Helmet]

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie Film For Theaters. Buddy of mine loaned it to me and I can't make it past twenty minutes of that shit before I'm out.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

2 beers and a shot of Tussin

 

[tweaky7]

Yeah as someone says watching reruns or a dvd you've seen a million times before really helps, i find the simpsons makes me fall asleep if i've seen it before. And if you have really slow or even boring music you don't like much on your ipod, go for it, gets me tired every night.

 

[Xhumed]

As a fellow sufferer, the option I would recommend is listening to a book on cd, one you've heard several times, at a barely audible volume. i find it keeps my mind occupied enough to stop it worrying about various things, but not so occupied it keeps me awake. (s)Exercise is also good, if its strenous enough. i find a stiff brandy or 2 helps as a night cap, but i can't recommend that, as I don't know how old you are. if you try it, don't drink too much. If you get drunk, you won't sleep deeply and you'll wake up early feeling tired.

 

[DrmChsr0]

Read Jane Eyre.

The most boring I have ever read. I swear by it's ability to put even the worst insomniac to bed.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Sex.

 

[mwhite67]

Weed and NyQuil cocktail