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Does anyone have any tips to help me sleep when I can't get to sleep? Last night the neighbours were playing really loud music at 12:45am so I banged at the wall and they turned it off but then I still couldn't sleep. I eventually got to sleep and I done this by counting from a thousand to one backwards very slowly. I could also read a very boring book, maybe this would work? Anyone else know anything that could help?

― Shaz, Monday, 23 September 2002 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

i find that reading something i am really interested in sends me off more quickly, cause i want to concentrate and it wears out my head to the point of 'yep now i can seriously just close my eyes and head to the land of nod'

― donna (donna), Monday, 23 September 2002 20:57 (twenty-three years ago)

late night TV. They show baseball at 2 in the morning over here, and if ever I can't sleep I just watch it for a bit.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 23 September 2002 21:01 (twenty-three years ago)

heavy exercise in the middle of the afternoon. and taking a nice hot bath at bedtime.

― mike (ro)bott, Monday, 23 September 2002 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

I have terrible insomnia, so I feel your pain! Sometimes a mug of hot chocolate (or some other drink involving warm milk) helps, or else beer or wine (though, admittedly, alcohol-induced sleep is never as good in the long run). Sometimes I purposefully lose myself in pleasant imaginings, and then I no longer mind that I'm lying there awake, which helps me fall asleep (if that makes any sense).

― nory (nory), Monday, 23 September 2002 22:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I listen to music on my headphones, it distracts me from the thoughts bouncing around my head keeping me awake. Usually I just lie there and listen to an album and suddenly realise I've missed several songs by having fallen asleep for a while. Once I'm in that sleepy kind of mode I can turn off the music and go to sleep.

― Poppy (poppy), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 00:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Opening a window sometimes helps- if I'm having trouble sleeping, having the room warm & stuffy makes it worse.

― lyra (lyra), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 01:04 (twenty-three years ago)

second listening to music on headphones, electrelane work wonders.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 01:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, there's the er.. one other *really obvious thing* to do when you're alone.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 02:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Wish you weren't?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 03:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I know it sounds odd but I find spelling words really helps.
Some sleep researchers found that counting wasn't taxing enough to stop the subconcious bubbling up new thoughts.
Allowing a random word to form and then s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g it out slowly occupies the mind just enough to quieten the babble.
I suffered from chronic insomnia for years, but since discovering this technique have rarely had any problems dropping off.

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 10:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Get up and eat a christmas dinner.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 10:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Brandy with honey and hot milk.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 10:43 (twenty-three years ago)

i too feel your pain. the only consistent cure involves beer and weed. i'm guessing this doesn't help.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Go through your times tables. I find that by the time I get to the 11 times table I am either frantic at my maths inability or unconscious. Usually the latter.

― alix, Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Beer and weed always help, dude! I have the same problem, but I take pills. Not the greatest idea.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

camomile tea and plato's republic should have you out like a light in minutes. good luck!

― angela (angela), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Try getting a non-cold like mine and you will barely be able to stand up.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 13:13 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't force myself to go to sleep. I'm always either reading or watching TV.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 24 September 2002 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned, that's not what I meant.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, yes. That was implied.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Swim for one to two hours around 4 hours before you want to go to bed, then you will be exausted enough you will just fall asleep.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 01:40 (twenty-three years ago)

You spoil all my fun Ned Raggett.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 01:57 (twenty-three years ago)

*weeps*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 September 2002 02:08 (twenty-three years ago)

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