sleeping What puts you to sleep?

[Ady-182]

I don't sleep much for similar reasons to the OP, but I find I can go to sleep fairly easily when Stephen Fry reads Harry Potter to me =]

[JonathanVP]

shex...and lots of it!

[nvllsvm]

5-10mg of melatonin.

[djdanster]

I usually watch tv before bed and set the timer on, that usually gets sets me off.

Exactly this for me as well. I watch Scrubs on E4 and drift off just after it finishes!

[McCordRm]

Any talk of that stupid vampire movie Twili...zzzzzzzzzz

[Noxa12]

Exactly this for me as well. I watch Scrubs on E4 and drift off just after it finishes!

Weird, i always chuck E4 on too.

It's the worst when you make the mistake of watching Big Bang Theory & Scrubs during the day-time then flick to it on the night too.

[Andrew Lyle Global Moderator]

I wish I was one of those people who could fall asleep in seconds. I'd defi Italy get more sleep that way.

It takes me anywhere between 5 mins (if I'm exhausted) to 2-3 hours to fall asleep. Average is roughly 15-30 mins.

What puts me to sleep? Clearing my thoughts and slowly counting down while concentrating in my breathing. That usually works 60% of the time. Every time.

[ybrett23]

sleep??? am i missing something??? whats that :cry:

[firey]

usually I will talk to myself, and I get so bored I fall asleep. But no I find that if I talk to myself, about my problems or whatever, it puts me to sleep.

[Ravensky]

Sex with my wife and she's out... I fall asleep soon after... =)

[Phouchg]

Unless there has been a decent physical exercise during the day, it takes up to 2 hours of thrashing around.

I used to be on Quetiapine but then often I woke up feeling as if I had been knocked down and subsequently run over several times by a bulldozer. Though, I'm never "fully charged" anymore, anyway.

Now sometimes I listen to music or audiobooks. And move my feet, relax, move feet again, relax... zzz...

[Reacon]

It takes 30~ minutes for me to fall asleep. I find that clearing my thoughts often does not work as well as unhinging my thoughts. I quit thinking about how freezing my toes are, or how uncomfortable I am, and begin pondering philosophy or something. This is rather distressful sometimes, however, because I end up thinking of amazing things... and then being too lazy to get up and write them down.

If I don't force myself to sleep, I will not until I am really tired. My body feels like it was made for 20 hour days.

[Muhammad Farrukh]

it takes up to 2 hours of thrashing around.

Its 'atleast' for me

[riceBox]

Watching American sitcoms make me fall asleep in a few minutes.

[RiverCampher]

So, what puts you to sleep?

As for me, I don't sleep much, only get 5, at max, hours of sleep in 24 hours.

Too much anxiety and depression, it is, for me.

What about you?

That used to be an issue for me as well. I suggest reading a book, it really does help take your mind away from reality and helps you relax. I didn't read for many years but this year I've read 10 books so far and am having far better sleep because of it.

[KomaWei]

masturbation

[Phouchg]

Its 'atleast' for me

I feels ya, bro :(

Whatever you do, stay off prescription drugs. They f* a man up. They say it will help until the underlying problem for all that anxiety and depression gets solved. But it never does get solved, of course, and then one can't easily get off drugs either.

I keep staying up more and more late but it doesn't help at all.

[Douglas_C]

It depends on what I've done...

If I've been up or busy or didn't sleep well, I'll just lie down, close my eyes and off I go. Otherwise, I often read for an hour or so which I find helps, because it will eventually reach the point where I start reading the same paragraph or line over and over again or I just close my eyes and get very close to sleep.

Otherwise, brushing my teeth again sometimes helps (no idea why), or I got some SleepEzy tablets from the chemist with valerian root in them which helps.

[Muhammad Farrukh]

That used to be an issue for me as well. I suggest reading a book, it really does help take your mind away from reality and helps you relax. I didn't read for many years but this year I've read 10 books so far and am having far better sleep because of it.

Tried it all. Reading, writing, talking.... everything. It just doesn't work. It used to, earlier, but not anymore

[BeerFan]

Mitt "the Mormon" Romney.

[Muhammad Farrukh]

I feels ya, bro :(

Whatever you do, stay off prescription drugs. They f* a man up. They say it will help until the underlying problem for all that anxiety and depression gets solved. But it never does get solved, of course, and then one can't easily get off drugs either.

I keep staying up more and more late but it doesn't help at all.

Oh, no man, I won't go that far. I know what they do. Some friends of mine are practical examples infront of me.

I'll probably get to bed near 2200 hrs and keep changing sides for upto 0200 hrs. Have to get up at 0430, and then if I am lucky, I'll get sleep for merely an hour, and then the university time.

Some nights, it gets worse, and all I can think about, is what is wrong with me. But it seems that there are no answers. Atleast I don't have them

[insomniac9]

Usually listening to music makes me fall asleep quickly, also travelling by bus, car, train, boat, plane puts me to sleep in about 30 mins or less.

[+Byt Subscriber¹]

Listening to the gf's "problems" ;)

[Symal Taneous]

I usually listen to music when I go to bed, unless I have someone else in bed with me, then I'm fine without music. If I can't fall asleep, then I take out my PSP and play until I can't keep my eyes open. I've tried reading, but sometimes I get really into the book and next thing I know, I'm looking up at the clock and I've been reading for 3 or 4 hours straight, lol.

[Douglas_C]

...I've tried reading, but sometimes I get really into the book and next thing I know, I'm looking up at the clock and I've been reading for 3 or 4 hours straight, lol.

I do that, at which point I know it is definitely time to go sleepybobos.