It's too... to sleep!

[Doctor VonSexMachine]

Yeah, my university still has finals week to go and then I get to go home and take up residence in my parents' basement. Thank god for that but they don't like me there, they'd rather me be upstairs.

In that case, I will definitely try your makeshift airconditioning idea. It sounds really smart, if i had the equipment to create large amounts of ice and hold it in a large bucket I would totally make my room icy cold. : D A little overboard? Perhaps your damp towel will work too.

Good luck with your struggles for a good night's sleep!

Time for SCIENCE! The damp cloth over the fan idea works because energy (heat) from the air is being used to evaporate the water in the cloth. It's called latent heat, and it's about 2404.8 kj/kg, (at 40 C) which is quite a bit. That's why you get cold when you get out of the pool, even if the water is at the temp of the outdoors. So, air that's had some heat removed will be blown towards you.

One note of caution though: The towel needs to be damp, not soaking. Too much water evaporating will make the room hotter...or rather seem hotter due to a raised sensible heat. If you look at a psychometric chart, you can see the trend.

Ok, enough science for now. Sleep well!

 

[Aesir23]

The sound of my own heart
Not being able to get my mind to SHUT UP for a few seconds.
Headaches.
And the insomnia I've had since I was a baby. It's not so much that I can't sleep (most of the time). It's that I have trouble falling asleep and then staying asleep.

 

[Plurralbles]

Yeah, my university still has finals week to go and then I get to go home and take up residence in my parents' basement. Thank god for that but they don't like me there, they'd rather me be upstairs.

In that case, I will definitely try your makeshift airconditioning idea. It sounds really smart, if i had the equipment to create large amounts of ice and hold it in a large bucket I would totally make my room icy cold. : D A little overboard? Perhaps your damp towel will work too.

Good luck with your struggles for a good night's sleep!

Time for SCIENCE! The damp cloth over the fan idea works because energy (heat) from the air is being used to evaporate the water in the cloth. It's called latent heat, and it's about 2404.8 kj/kg, (at 40 C) which is quite a bit. That's why you get cold when you get out of the pool, even if the water is at the temp of the outdoors. So, air that's had some heat removed will be blown towards you.

One note of caution though: The towel needs to be damp, not soaking. Too much water evaporating will make the room hotter...or rather seem hotter due to a raised sensible heat. If you look at a psychometric chart, you can see the trend.

Ok, enough science for now. Sleep well!

Though science supports it and people in India even make ice by soaking hides over a container of water in the hot sun, I prefer my instant gratification/no thinking method.

 

[iLikeHippos]

Well, I often have trouble getting into sleeping.
If I get to bed at 22:00, I sleep at 23:30 or something.

Stupid active brain, ruining your own recovery...
I also HATE it with a grudge when the man in the house decides he wants to watch some league play on the television, right outside my room.
They are shown at night time, and night time only. Fucking hate that...

 

[Doctor VonSexMachine]

Though science supports it and people in India even make ice by soaking hides over a container of water in the hot sun, I prefer my instant gratification/no thinking method.

It's ok, we'll do the science for you.

 

[Plurralbles]

Though science supports it and people in India even make ice by soaking hides over a container of water in the hot sun, I prefer my instant gratification/no thinking method.

It's ok, we'll do the science for you.

damn canadian, ohwell, I'll do civics, the arts, and control your computer systems for ya'.

 

[tombman888]

my nose, i can barely stand how much it runs, it keeps me up all night, then when i DO fall asleep, it wakes me up again in about 3 hours

 

[TRR]

i dont sleep because i have my own computer and an internet connection, seriously. i could spend days doing nothing but surfing the web or playing video games. And yes i recognize i have a problem.

How is that a problem?
It just means you're one of us.

you ever just not sleep because you were on the computer, and essentially doing nothing, like not video games?

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

Insomnia. Though on the second or third day without any rest at all I can sleep like a baby.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

personally i'd say my farts.


now by extern noise, i'd say Cars, Trucks, Wifi waves, Cellphone antenas, and the once a time drunken bunch that makes some noise on the streets...

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Heat.... that is about it.

But on the subject, it happens too frequently where I am laying in my bed, viewing my television, in a dark room, barely lit. I look a little to my right, at the wall hugging my bed.... and behold, what is this? A dark, small, moving blob on my wall?..... I stare for a moment, then I realise...

FUCKING SHIT ITS A SPIDER

NOW I GOTTA KILL IT, FUCK

I can't sleep til its dead....

Goddamnit, now I'm all paranoid....I do this exact same thing all the time. Stupid fuckin spiders.

 

[HotShooter]

My own personal boredom. I'm just too bored to sleep. It doesn't make much sense but neither do I.

 

[Revolutionary]

Thinking about school keeps me up sometimes. Sometimes anger about something that happened.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

The random sounds i keep hearing in the basement plus my natural tendency to stay up late.

 

[RaphaelsRedemption]

The insomnia can keep me awake.

Wide awake. Slightly shaky, on-edge, wide-eyed awake. The sort that needs sleeping tablets to overcome.

But now, however, the opposite is happening and I'm sleeping an avarage 13 hours a night. And I'm tired. All the time.

Damn depression.

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

the cold. its often freezing here (well, for me. compared to anywhere else its nothing...)

thats annoying. annoying as all hell.

also having no constant sound. its why I sleep with the TV on.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

My own fucked up body clock prevents me from going to sleep at normal times when I require it a couple times a week, because the rest of the time it's up till 5, sleep till 12-3... Maybe I should look at that.

 

[Deadlock Radium]

My room is either too hot or insanely cold, it really sucks to get 1 hour of sleep because of the heat/cold. I don't have a heater in my room to make it more warm in there either.

 

[IzisviAziria]

Thank god for basements.

I have insomnia. Not you average "oh, I can't sleep, I've been trying for 20 whole minutes", but rather I cannot sleep for more than 3 or 4 hours at a time, if I can even fall asleep at all. And it's not like I don't need that sleep! It's been going on for more than 2 years.

I'm going on a good 3 years of the same thing. it's not necessarily ever night, but it is several nights a week (3-4). Having my first class at 8 am, this causes some extreme difficulties. I've also had some rather intense anxieties about my future, when I'll likely have my livelihood dependent on getting to some job early in the morning.

But I lay in bed, I'm tired, and I know I want to sleep, but I just sort of stare for hours. I close my eyes, but I still feel like I'm seeing things. I notice my eye position, I feel them rotating in the socket... I think about the day I just had, about tomorrow, about random things from 10 years ago.. just random junk. And it continues this way until 4 or 5 am, when either I finally fall asleep (to wake up zombified 3 hours later) or finally decide that sleep is just not coming tonight, and get back up.

Often when I make that decision, not 2 hours later, I'll either fall asleep in total exhaustion, or wish that I could but remain awake to go to class or something. And going to class in a state of exhaustion is certainly not good for information retention.

Figure I should look into taking a sleeping pill? I'm really not a big fan of pills.. Long story, but my mom is a pharmacy technician and she's been on and off of a plethora of different medications her whole life, and her body is just in a total state of imbalance... So I'm really hesitant to take a pill to resolve anything at all.

 

[Littlee300]

Insomnia. Though on the second or third day without any rest at all I can sleep like a baby.

3 days without sleep? That sounds very unhealthy