What do you do when you can't sleep?
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I drink a pot of Coffee and ride that ***** through til morning. If I won't be able to get the amount of sleep I'll need or I think I won't be able to wake up in time, I'll just stay up. I used to have a really bad problem with insomnia, so I'm used to going without.
Since every Sunday it's impossible for me to sleep, I've declared it a night fit for 6-hour Team Fortress 2 marathons. I usually browse the internet on my phone if I can't sleep, I'll usually fall asleep and drop the phone on my face though, so it's effectiveness is debatable.
I've spent almost my entire life having issues sleeping. When I was in elementary I had a bedtime of 10 but I wouldn't go to sleep until at least midnight if not later. It's been suggested to me that I might not make enough melatonin but that person wasn't a doctor and neither am I so, who knows, could be true, could not.
So usually when I can't sleep it all depends on what I have to do the next day. If I can't sleep and I have to get up at five in the morning, I just try my damndest to calm down, relax, and go to sleep. It usually doesn't work and I lie there, bored, for hours, but nothing else works either.
If I don't have anything to do the next day...I get up. I play video games, watch a movie, read a book, just do what I want to do. I gave up keeping an actual sleep schedule a long time ago because usually I can't go to sleep unless I'm exhuasted anyways so if I don't have to be up and doing something the next day then there's no point torturing myself.
So usually when I can't sleep it all depends on what I have to do the next day. If I can't sleep and I have to get up at five in the morning, I just try my damndest to calm down, relax, and go to sleep. It usually doesn't work and I lie there, bored, for hours, but nothing else works either.
If I don't have anything to do the next day...I get up. I play video games, watch a movie, read a book, just do what I want to do. I gave up keeping an actual sleep schedule a long time ago because usually I can't go to sleep unless I'm exhuasted anyways so if I don't have to be up and doing something the next day then there's no point torturing myself.
When I can't sleep, MST3k. I recommend Diabolik (godawful 60s movie) or Godzilla vs. Megalon (godawful 70s movie) The dubs on both of those are hilarious.
I usually watch netflix in the hopes that it will put me to sleep. Unfortunately, I usually get into watching whatever show I put on and just keep on starting new episodes. You would think after a few sleepless nights I would learn that its a bad idea, but I frequently get to the point where I just say screw it and aim for sleeping the next night.
Melatonin. I know someone has already mentioned it, but I might as well to 
I have trouble getting to the point where I can fall asleep, even though im extremely tired, so I usually take Melatonin to get to that point so I can sleep. While thats having its way with me, I usually put on Mythbusters on Netflix and wait for the drugs to hit.
I have trouble getting to the point where I can fall asleep, even though im extremely tired, so I usually take Melatonin to get to that point so I can sleep. While thats having its way with me, I usually put on Mythbusters on Netflix and wait for the drugs to hit.
I either listen to mp3's on my laptop, or I play youtube videos I've already seen, get bored, close my eyes and listen to it, then wake up later to find that I'd fallen asleep.
I usually listen to music or watch a movie. Failing those 2, I usually read till its hard to focus, or... fap (or clop) myself to sleep, as others have suggested. I usually stay up way too late for my own good anyways, so I tend to not have too hard of a time going to sleep.
As for your spider dream though, I would be more confused and fascinated than scared. I like me some spiders, and usually go out of my way to save them. I tend to put them on my pear tree, helps keep the bugs away.
As for your spider dream though, I would be more confused and fascinated than scared. I like me some spiders, and usually go out of my way to save them. I tend to put them on my pear tree, helps keep the bugs away.
