What helps you sleep?

[swankyfella]

I listen to the Harry Potter books on tape.

Not because they're boring or anything (I actually love those books) but because I used to listen to them as a kid at night. I would try not to fall asleep and listen to a side of a cassette every night but I'd never make it. Now those suckers are like knock-out gas for me.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Playing portable gaming devices in bed helps. Tetris helps, since it's pressuring without being unforgiving.

 

[Heathrow]

"Jeeves and Wooster" and Coffee.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

This may sound corny but my boyfriend. When he's with me I'm out in a few minutes even if I'm not that tired. Alone it takes me FOREVER to get to sleep.

I totalay understand that. I always have problems to sleep at nights, but when my GF is there its totally easy.

When i am somewhere else then home, i usually dont have problems to sleep either. Say i am visiting friends or am in vacation or something. There is just so little to remind me of things to think about there.
At home i either watch some series till i am really tired or read, then i listen to an audiobook in very low volume so that i really have to listen to it to understand it and my concentration doesnt wander of in the usual thoughts that annoy me at night. All the stuff i have to do, problems that are to solve, or even stuff that didnt worked out well in the past and thats totally irrelevant but i use to think them through again how it could have worked etc.

2 bottles of wine do the trick too, but that sleep isnt really very refreshing.

 

[anotherdamnwatanabe]

I listen to a song I like in my head.

I only drink a third of a cup of wine at the most which only makes me a little sleepy. I don't think wine would help me sleep.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

slow music, i have a giant playlist in Spotify devoted to helping me sleep.

its stuff like maroon 5 and boston, queen and hinder, alter bridge.

 

[moretimethansense]

Either some kind of white noise or a focused train of thought, I tend to think of random things if I'm trying to sleep so I need something to drown it out.

 

[Quellist]

Cup of tea in bed while i'm reading and a Y pillow for neck support. I find if i'm gonna have a bad night i'm gonna have a bad night whatever (i suffer occasional sleep apnea) but those two make regular nights easier.

 

[sdfasdfhfgfgjtyisdgdfdfj]

A bed often helps quite well in my experience.

 

[thedevilscousin]

Today it's either my DS or i fall alseep watching some show/movie

I used to read a lot before sleep, but then i'd just get caught up in the story or just wouldn't sleep.

 

[Woodsey]

Copious amounts of cocaine.

 

[Dumori]

Lieing with a partner. Just the lieing makes me so much more relaxed than I normally am I've fallen to sleep in stupid places or at dumb times due to this effect. I must say my chonic insomnia has helped towards the more dumb falling to sleep moments not being able to sleep for up too 72+ hours at a time is fun. Such and in the middle of sex or just while talking mid sentence.

 

[putowtin]

booze, lot's of it!

 

[Korak the Mad]

I have to take presciption medication to help me fall asleep, but to help me stay asleep, I listen to either a movie with commentary on, or I keep a small pair of speakers on my bed table and I hook up my mp3 player (repeating on one song) to them. I plug the mp3 charger into the wall so it stays on.

I recommend when listening you keep it at a level you can hear the music well enough, but not loud enough that it will keep you up. I just started doing that, and I can't remember when I've slept that well.

 

[Ambi]

Exercise, reading, green tea, lack of coffee and tea, and not eating much. Not eating much except for something nutritious but low in calories like vegetable soup gets me into a calmer, more stable state, probably because I lack the rush of energy to care and I have a certain attitude towards it. I think it's why some religions advocate periods of fasting to clear the mind. It also makes me wake up early without an alarm, with this empty, almost romantic feeling.

I don't think green tea chemically facilitates sleep, but it's supposed to be good for you somehow and I feel something hot, sugarless and (mostly) lacking in caffeine matches bedtime.

If you feel like experimenting a little, if you haven't already, cut out sugar (apart from a little fruit), caffeine, and most other simple carbohydrates for a few days. Eat until 70 percent full, as the Japanese say. Go for a run or do some other exercises.

 

[Phishfood]

No caffiene after 2 is a big one for me.

Failing that: reading, TV or a nightcap can do the trick.

Actually...last night antihistamines did it for me far too well. :/

 

[Anti Nudist Cupcake]

Telling my brain to stfu.
Listening to my own breathing.

 

[Mr.Squishy]

A date with Rosie Palms beforehand always helps me, but I usually don't have sleep problems, so...yeah. Also, ensuring the temperature is right; maybe a bit cold, so that you wanna tuck yourself in under the covers. Then again, that's just what I've grown up with here in a country with parts above the polar circle and bordering to Russia, so..

 

[Amberella]

Listening to my boyfriend sleeping. :/

Probably why I sleep so poorly anymore, it's been awhile.

 

[Russian_Assassin]

Nothing. I would have said smoking, but I quit recently... 5t4r66y5t775ty9y8rt34fgvb (that was me banging my head on the keyboard, I am not taking this whole quitting thing very well)