what do you do if you can't sleep?

I don't sleep at night quite often. Either i think about stuff for too long and then can't sleep, or i just don't want to. And i lay there, thinking and thinking, and sometimes i would even start crying for no reason. That's pretty weird.

 

read a book. not something interesting or anything. for me, i'll read one of my economics books from the 1950 and i'll go right to sleep.

you can do other things in bed with yourself too...

 

damn that sucks. dont have any answer for you sorry.

I really do hate when that happens, which happens quite often for me. not the crying part cuz i am not a cryer.

 

Wear yourself out mentally and physicaly before you lay down for bed.

 

when i cant sleep i'll usually smoke some pot if i have any...which is less and less often these days....

failing that, masturbation helps sometimes.

then theres always benedryl or nyquil

if nothing works, i give up and read or watch tv

 

sleep? what's that? i've long since forgotten the pleasures of that forbidden fruit lol

 

I rarely sleep for more then five hours a night. I eat well and get platny of sun and exercise. Doesn't help much.

I kill time here. Doesn't help me sleep, but neither does anything else,

 

Try Cammeal tea works pretty good. Takes a while though.

 

I used to do that with gravol...Id take 3 or 4..

 

Getting more B12 in your diet, & exercise..I've heard melatonin works, chamomile tea is very mild, I'd reach for valerian root if a valium isn't your style.
Yeah, masturbation helps too.
Being a seasoned insomniac myself..It takes a decently strong pill to send me off nowadays. I do drink chamomile tea when my nerves get rattled, tastes good too. Buy the flowers, crush 'em, & use a teaball instead though. Stronger that way.
Serious about the masturbation, sounds funny, but sexual frustration ruins any notion of sleep for me.
Probably different for everyone.
Best wishes with it.

 

i used to use muscle relaxers while at school....Robaxin (Methocarbamol Tablets)

 

listen to classical music or watch old movies until i cant keep my eyes open

 

sorry but benedryl is not even a little bit chemically addictive. of course, anything (even sex, shopping, or television) can become an addiction in the hands of a very compulsive person....but benedryl itself is not to blame. its that you just dont think you can sleep without it.

 

Masturbate.

 

I replay reruns of old cartoons, movies I've memorized, etc. in my head for a while while I lay quiet and with my eyes closed. Works pretty well for me.

 

Diphenhydramine (the active ingredient in benadryl) isn't addictive, but if you take high amounts of it to go to sleep, you will have difficulty sleeping without it.

 

So it is addictive, maybe not in the medical sense of having physical withdrawal but if you lose your ability to do something natural (eg. sleeping) when stoping a habbit then that habbit is addictive because you need it to function normally.

 

Go online and read some sexual stuff like the Love and Sex posts on here. Masturbate while reading, then go to bed and fall right to sleep.

Paul

 

I sleep on it and think of it the next day.

 

when i can sleep i sleep. when i can't i don't worry about it. when i can't it's because there's something i feel like i need more to do. and do it.

of course all that would be different if i had an actual schedule of some kind i was committed to keeping. which is perhapse why i can't both do that and live with anyone else at the same time.

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