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[Brofist]

Lately I swear I'm averaging like 3 hours of sleep a night for the last 2 weeks. I'm not feeling the effects of it catching up with me yet, but this can't be healthy

Any suggestions?

 

[rs7k]

Don't drink coffee, don't smoke.

 

[Crispy]

If you don't feel tired...I guess you just don't need anymore sleep!

Listen to your body, open your mind....

 

[Orin GA]

Might want to try using one of those sound therapy machines that mimic rainfall, or jungle or whatever

 

[Naked Snake]

Run, workout, exercise, etc.

Jerking off before going to bed might help too.

 

[Matlock]

 

[Manabanana]

Make sure your lips aren't chapped and blow your nose? I don't...understand?

Edit: Blast, fixed it.

 

[Zaptruder]

Screw sound therapy machines.

Is there a rainfall soundtrack that I can find and just have that playing on my PC?

 

[Naked Snake]

Make sure your lips aren't chapped and blow your nose? I don't...understand?

 

[Manabanana]

Screw sound therapy machines.

Is there a rainfall soundtrack that I can find and just have that playing on my PC?

Yeah, I have a friend who had a whole playlist for sleeping. He just sets it on loop in iTunes and...zzzzzz....It was sounds from different areas of Japan. Rain sounds or cicadas, etc.

 

[brooklyngooner]

My advice is to stop rooting for the Sox. It doesn't matter how late you're up agonizing, yes they ARE going to choke and yes they ARE going to break your heart.

 

[Brofist]

I might try the sounds idea. I tried the other already, aint workin

 

[Brofist]

My advice is to stop rooting for the Sox. It doesn't matter how late you're up agonizing, yes they ARE going to choke and yes they ARE going to break your heart.

:lol

 

[brooklyngooner]

:lol

For what it's worth, as a Met fan I am rooting for you. I had a lot of fun up at Fenway a few weeks ago.

In terms of sleep, I had trouble for a while, and I think it's worth figuring whether you think it's purely physiological or whether you have things on your mind that are playing havoc with your ability to sleep. In either case, what I did was simply read and write. I tried to avoid TV. The most important part for me was to accept I wasn't going to sleep a blissful 8 hours and stop putting pressure on myself to fall asleep.

 

[Cimarron]

Masterbation works for me.

 

[teiresias]

Read Robert Jordan.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Exercise.

 

[way more]

Why not drugs? They've come along way and are very safe.

If you're Morman or something exercise like it's been said or stay up all night with out sleeping, the next night you will be able to go to bed earlier.

 

[Warm Machine]

Turn up the heat, put on some classical music, turn off all the lights, and turn the tv on.

 

[jecclr2003]

Put the light, low, boot up the PC, cruise for porn (anything Jenna Jameson works) and lots of masturbation.


If you aren't ready for bed time then, don't know what to tell you.

 

[Team Rancid]

I stretch my legs. I stretch my hammys, calves, thighs and groin. Standard stretch excercises you would do before a run/workout. Takes about 10 min and makes me sleepy almost immediately.

 

[Dyne]

University puts me to sleep like a baby every single night. I had trouble falling asleep in the summer because I was so bored.

 

[kevm3]

!) Don't drink sodas or anything caffiene related near bedtime
2) Avoid overly stimulating activities betfore bedtime such as action games, fighters, etc.
3) Stay off teh internet near bed-time. It can be just as stimulating as games, and will keep you up if you're not careful.
4) Stop thinking while you're laying down trying to go to sleep, because it WILL keep you up. Avoid thinking about the day's events, what you're going to do tomorrow, etc. Just try to picture blackness, relax and then you should fall aslepe.

 

[neptunes]

watch a boring television show.

Or read a book you have zero interest in.

 

[Brofist]

Actually I get a pretty good amount of exercise. The reason no drugs, I'd just rather not rely on em...it's not against my religion or anything

 

[arter_2]

im an insomniac so nothing really ever works but i hear that warm milk and turky helps.

 

[robochimp]

Masterbation works for me.

Folks this is the right way to go about getting a tag. Lets see if it works

 

[Eminem]

4) Stop thinking while you're laying down trying to go to sleep, because it WILL keep you up. Avoid thinking about the day's events, what you're going to do tomorrow, etc. Just try to picture blackness, relax and then you should fall aslepe.

best advice in the thread.

 

[Makura]

Yeah, just breathe and don't think about it. Warm milk is supposed to be good too.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

read one of Loki's dissertations on Michael Jordan.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

4) Stop thinking while you're laying down trying to go to sleep, because it WILL keep you up. Avoid thinking about the day's events, what you're going to do tomorrow, etc. Just try to picture blackness, relax and then you should fall aslepe.

That's a lot easier said than done, though. In recent months, though, I've been... forcing my way through this period, though. I'll get in bed, read a little. When I reach a good stopping point or my eyes start to feel a bit heavier, I'll turn off the lights and switch to GBA SP where I'll do some rote task (leveling up in Pokémon Sapphire or Final Fantasy Legend III mostly). It doesn't take long for that to get old, and by then I'm just dulled out and ready to shut my eyes and sleep. The only negative is sometimes this works so well I'll have left my SP on and have to recharge in the morning.

 

[kevm3]

You're damn right that it's harder to do than it sounds. Very, very hard once it becomes a habit. I just tried to lay down and sleep, but thoughts start rushing through my head in a great flood. I'm only able to silence them for a few minutes, and here they come again. I picked up this nasty habit over time and I'm up at 5 in the morning with a class at 10:30. Every time I lay down, thoughts start racing through my mind and I just start tossing and turning. Why do I have all this freaking energy right now?

Part of the problem must be when I take naps in the middle of the day. Reading school books really puts me to sleep, so I just doze off... I have to start avoiding naps. I also think it's important to avoid any stimulating activity that will get your mind racing before bedtime. 30 minutes to an hour of listening to relaxing music and meditating, reading some relaxing book (not a thriller) etc. prior to your bedtime might do the trick. I just wish I could follow my own damn advice.

 

[Felidae_Khrall]

I find the best way to go to sleep is to find a movie that you REALLY want to watch, and start watching it. Eventually your eyes will close and you'll tell yourself 'Just for a second' because you want to see the movie so much. Next thing you know it's morning.





























































































And you wake up with a greasy, condom filled ass..... Hey, at least you got some sleep.

 

[sonicfan]

The Golf Channel.

And I'm an avid golfer. But there is nothing that will make you pass out faster than a rerun of last weeks Nationwide tour even rerun at 11:00 pm.

Demand it now from your cable provider!!!!


Another thing, while its sort of a drug, melatonin really helps me. It makes me seem to fall into a much deeper sleep when I do fall asleep, and sleep longer.