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What do you do when you can't fall asleep?
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Yes please do,
myself I read or listen to movies, or watch videos whatever works for me at that moment.
Although I have a friend who can only fall asleep listening to metal music... :/
20mg of Diazepam at the moment. I do prefer Temazepam though. i use it when i feel overtired which paradoxically stops me somehow from getting asleep.
I'm careful not use them too often as i realise how addictive they are.
I'm careful not use them too often as i realise how addictive they are.
Apparently that poster fell asleep.
I'm currently busy preparing for publication on my website which is the best place for it. It ain't gonna work here. The 'please do so' comments' looked a bit disingenuous.
I can't really tell you, but it involves a bag of rock salt, a fountain pen, a lit cigar, and a duck.
Don't try this at home!
I'm a professional!
Don't try this at home!
I'm a professional!
I've got it! You service your water softener (bag of rock salt), writing the date on the servicing label (fountain pen), all while impersonating Groucho Marx (cigar & duck).
Me too....Enya, Chicane, Deepforest knock me right out
Yep- usually works.
surprising enough....probably because its a form of body release that brings in a relaxed feeling.
I've always heard that sleeping immediately after filling your stomach was bad. I don't know why "they" say that though.
I think to some extent the answer depends on what has caused the sleeplessness.
When I was a student - arriving home very late after a night out drinking and talking and laughing and philosophising with friends - I remember being unable to sleep through sheer intellectual effervescence and bubbling good humour; being cheerfully intoxicated helped, too. Those days, music (played on headphones) allowed descent from the summit of undimished exuberant joy at the intensely felt pleasure of knowing that you are living life.
Latterly, when I cannot sleep, it is on account of stress, and that is something that comes in different forms. There is the personal, private and domestic one, the one you feel you cannot escape, as when dealing with a parent who suffers from dementia (a situation I am familiar with), where one ear is permanently cocked for the nocturnal wanderer (who might be prone to falls) and who has inexplicably forgotten that night and day are different, forgotten too, that a cherished spouse is dead as they wander the house, having flicked all of the lights on, as they roam, seeking their deceased partner in room after room. That is a sleepless night.
Then there are the sleepless nights where the stress is external, public, and impersonal. It is the sort of sleepless night when you have been roused out of bed at 4 a.m. in a foreign city, ordered to the bunkers, because this is a world where bombs are a daily occurrence, and because there there has been an attack nearby. The funny thing is that true sleeplessness only occurred on the nights subsequent to the alarms, not the night where the initial disruption occurred.
I have been reading and participating in these threads for quite some time; sometimes, reading them, the glib responses, the US centric world view, the utter lack of critical analysis, the effortless mastery of a vocabulary describing the sexual but used to mask and deflect rather than interrogate and think, I wonder whether I am on the same planet as some of the other posters and conclude that I am not......
Anyway, most nights I sleep. And, on the stressful ones, when I don't, a racing mind can be calmed by reading, or listening to music, or browsing the web, or, sometimes, drinking alcohol in surprising quantities (a well-worn remedy I am surprised nobody has mentioned thus far....)
Well, the complicated tapestry that makes up the universe is of a rich and varied and tangled weave.......
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I meant to mention that I really like this post; inexplicably, for some reason, it has me chuckling insanely.....
When I was a student - arriving home very late after a night out drinking and talking and laughing and philosophising with friends - I remember being unable to sleep through sheer intellectual effervescence and bubbling good humour; being cheerfully intoxicated helped, too. Those days, music (played on headphones) allowed descent from the summit of undimished exuberant joy at the intensely felt pleasure of knowing that you are living life.
Latterly, when I cannot sleep, it is on account of stress, and that is something that comes in different forms. There is the personal, private and domestic one, the one you feel you cannot escape, as when dealing with a parent who suffers from dementia (a situation I am familiar with), where one ear is permanently cocked for the nocturnal wanderer (who might be prone to falls) and who has inexplicably forgotten that night and day are different, forgotten too, that a cherished spouse is dead as they wander the house, having flicked all of the lights on, as they roam, seeking their deceased partner in room after room. That is a sleepless night.
Then there are the sleepless nights where the stress is external, public, and impersonal. It is the sort of sleepless night when you have been roused out of bed at 4 a.m. in a foreign city, ordered to the bunkers, because this is a world where bombs are a daily occurrence, and because there there has been an attack nearby. The funny thing is that true sleeplessness only occurred on the nights subsequent to the alarms, not the night where the initial disruption occurred.
I have been reading and participating in these threads for quite some time; sometimes, reading them, the glib responses, the US centric world view, the utter lack of critical analysis, the effortless mastery of a vocabulary describing the sexual but used to mask and deflect rather than interrogate and think, I wonder whether I am on the same planet as some of the other posters and conclude that I am not......
Anyway, most nights I sleep. And, on the stressful ones, when I don't, a racing mind can be calmed by reading, or listening to music, or browsing the web, or, sometimes, drinking alcohol in surprising quantities (a well-worn remedy I am surprised nobody has mentioned thus far....)
Well, the complicated tapestry that makes up the universe is of a rich and varied and tangled weave.......
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I meant to mention that I really like this post; inexplicably, for some reason, it has me chuckling insanely.....
Maybe some people have difficulties falling asleep after eating late (stomach has to work). Plus, and although this makes sense to me - just like one shouldn't eat before going to swim - I've no idea if that's an urban legend, it's said to be unhealthy. Guess because your body decreases activity (wants to sleep) yet your stomach wants to be active...no idea, really.
You sketch a duck with a fountain pen while smoking a cigar and... nope, i cant think of anything for the salt...
I think because digestion takes quite a lot of bodily systems to be working quite hard so your internal organs arnt winding to down to the relaxed states they normally are when you sleep. Its generally best to not eat a couple of hours before trying to sleep.
You get sleepy after eating a huge meal because the body diverts its resources away from everything but digestion and what keeps you alive and safe.
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Maybe some people have difficulties falling asleep after eating late (stomach has to work). Plus, and although this makes sense to me - just like one shouldn't eat before going to swim - I've no idea if that's an urban legend, it's said to be unhealthy. Guess because your body decreases activity (wants to sleep) yet your stomach wants to be active...no idea, really.
I've never had difficulty falling asleep after eating late; indeed, eating a nice supper, with a good friend, a bottle of wine, good conversation, is one of life's great pleasures......actually, I prefer eating late to early, but that is a personal preference, and I'm nocturnal by nature in any case.
Re swimming, I suspect that the theory there is based on the fact that an incredible amount of the body's resources are taken up by the process of digestion, so much so, that the body has little left over for anything else, least of all energetic activity requiring intense focus and concentration.
Listen to Leo Laporte
What do I do when I can't fall asleep? I put my iPad Mini beside my head and turn on Leo Laporte's This Week in Tech (TWIT) podcast. As a result, I doze off almost immediately.
Now if it were Sarah Lane doing the talking, then I would have some trouble dozing off. She's cute.
What do I do when I can't fall asleep? I put my iPad Mini beside my head and turn on Leo Laporte's This Week in Tech (TWIT) podcast. As a result, I doze off almost immediately.
Now if it were Sarah Lane doing the talking, then I would have some trouble dozing off. She's cute.
should you eat right before going to bed?
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt...o+bed?&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-656
If interested, have at it!
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt...o+bed?&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-656
If interested, have at it!
Yea wanted to say, if you have acid reflux issues - sleeping after a heavy meal (or doing anything uhhh vertical)
is a bad idea.
Yea wanted to say, if you have acid reflux issues - sleeping after a heavy meal (or doing anything uhhh vertical)
????? horizontal?
You know if I were to worry about how people perceive me then I'd never have done any work at all. As Kant said...'Dare To Reason'. If I say I perceived something in a particular way, how can you say "wrong"? That doesn't make sense.
I'm currently publishing now and I can assure you that this forum is not the place for my work. Trust me.
However if you would like to outline a precise area of interest to you then I'll see if I can make some comments for your consideration, but you'll need to narrow down your area of interest.
