insomnia cures

ii) errrr, when I asked a load of friends for top anti-insomnia tips they made numerous suggestions almost all of which I can't remember. Several of them did say something about putting lavender on your pillow, so maybe that will work.

Only works if you're a computer science student with no lectures to go to/useful work to do i think.

Anyway, as for curing actual insomnia, it depends on whether it's actual insomnia or just an altered sleep schedule. You can usually shock your system back into a "normal" schedule by staying up a day as has been suggested. Also, make sure you're getting the right amount of rest when you do finally fall asleep. Something around 8 hours is normal, while anything that's a lot more or less tends to be bad. Make sure you're getting enough exercise, etc.

Should I just grin and bear it and enjoy the wee hours? Or can anyone suggest remedies not mentioned in previous threads (which I have just perused)?

One thing though, and I ought to follow my own advice more often -- computer or TV in the hour before you go to sleep is a recipe for insomnia.

I am so tired.

I have no problem falling asleep but I wake up in the early morning and am usually up for at least a couple hours. Sometimes I can fall back asleep and get another hour but sometimes I can't. I've been up since 4:30 today. It's not even 9 and I feel like it should be the afternoon. I know that when I get home I will crash and nap and then go to bed around midnight and the whole thing will happen again. Oof.

i've never had this problem but i get a good night's rest 1 out of every 3 or 4 days now, and it's been this way for like 6 months.

it's purely psychological due to stress but even in years past, a sleep aid would help with that. nowadays they might as well be placebos. :/

it's not that I get no sleep, but it's usually less than 6 hours, and there's certain times of morning where I can't go back to sleep.

is your room totally dark in the morning?

i never had curtains on my windows and used to be able to sleep through the blazing sun, but stuff changes. I had to start wearing a sleep mask if I didn't want to get up with the sun, always wondering what time it was. Also, diluting to decaf coffee helps if you drink coffee, exercise, not drinking, you know the drill. I usually sleep very well but every so often I need to make an adjustment to get over my own mind's block.

I got blackout curtains for my room because my old apartment let too much light in and yet while that normally works for me, it somehow doesn't now.

I have to sleep on my back due to reflux, I wonder if now my body is trained towards that because it feels so unnatural to the point where I don't always do it, but a couple of gagging fits in my sleep has forced the issue lately.

my favorite sleep position is on my stomach with one leg bent up but I also have been trying to train myself to sleep on my back because of new lower back pain. It's work to get there. I have blackout shades but it still lets in a grey morning light that i became sensitive to also we sleep with the windows open now because it's summer here so the shades stay up a bit. The sleep mask (decent silky ones that have space for your eyes are cheap) made a huge difference for me. I slept until 11am for the first time in years and I was horrified.