Nytol works well for me, you can get it over the counter without prescription. Weirdly the other thing that works for me is the Calm app in which you have various soothing-voiced people (even Matthew McConaughey pops up) to read you a bedtime story.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 08:41 (three years ago) link
Is that the free or premium version of that app?
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 10:08 (three years ago) link
Premium
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 10:59 (three years ago) link
There's a great podcast called The Maritime History Podcast that used to knock me right out. It took me months to make it past Hammurabi. But then my brain got used to that, and started a new trick: letting me go to sleep for about an hour from midnight to 1am, then waking me back up again for the rest of the night. The night before last I didn't sleep at all and eventually got up at 5:30.
It definitely helps me to get some exercise during the day and not eat late at night, and to avoid alcohol. But those things only help. They don't guarantee sleep.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 7 October 2020 11:26 (three years ago) link
“Nytol will help you get your zzzzzzzzs” = jingles u will never get out of your sleep deprived head
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 12:54 (three years ago) link
Come on over to this thread, LL: Thread for random old TV voiceover/announcer phrases that pop into your head
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 7 October 2020 14:13 (three years ago) link
it's baaaaaaaaaack. but now I have an anxiety-cause to some of it. pretty much for the majority of the year, some nights I try to go to sleep, and feel like every time I start to go under, I jolt awake, and my heart races and it repeats over and over for an hour or so until finally I fall asleep (or don't). it only started when I acquired an assload of stress and usually on nights when I have a lot in my head at bedtime.
also it's long past time I do a sleep study. i am 99% sure I have apnea, p much everybody in my family does.
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 11 October 2023 17:19 (six months ago) link