Two friends and I tend to go on midnight drives. The cool night air in the winding forest roads works wonders.
I find I can't stay in bed once I wake up. I get so restless and end up waking my husband so I just get up and go do something. After work naps are a big problem for me too. I fall asleep sometimes when I get home and then can't sleep and it goes around in a vicious circle. I just keep trying things, hopefully eventually something will work.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I wake up quite often during the night. I have a pattern I follow. I get up and check windows and doors to make sure everything is ok. I drink half a glass of ice cold milk. Then try to fight my way back asleep.
In the paranormal world, which I am a part of, there is a theory that the hours between midnight and 3am are "dead time".. it is when spirits are most active and it is our sensitivity to such that wakes us. This theory is derived by some as it is surmised that 3am is the time Christ died. My own belief paranormally speaking, is that spirits are constantly active, but it is our REM sleep when we are most vulnerable to contact.
Be all of this that may.. I offer my half a glass of milk as a consideration..
I used to think I had insomnia. Now I think the idea that everyone should follow identical times day in and day out is crazy.
Now I sleep when I am tired, and awake when I am not.
Same thing for me as far as milk goes, I can't drink it and don't have it in the house.
I forgot about melantonin. I've tried it in various forms, tablets, drops, spray, and the most effective was the spray. Sometimes, not always.
Two things I have learned that have helped me:
1) I put on the sports channel, since it never makes me anxious but relaxes me, and make sure I am in a chair that will let me sleep.
2) This one really works for me: I put on something loud and harsh like grunge
Two things I have learned that have helped me:
1) I put on the sports channel, since it never makes me anxious but relaxes me, and make sure I am in a chair that will let me sleep.
2) This one really works for me: I put on something loud and harsh like grunge
Two things I have learned that have helped me:
1) I put on the sports channel, since it never makes me anxious but relaxes me, and make sure I am in a chair that will let me sleep.
2) This one really works for me: I put on something "loud" and "harsh" like grunge WHEN I AM ANXIOUS, and it seems to replaced the anxious distortion I would dream. I sleep pretty well doing that! By loud I mean just loud enough to hold your attention.
I have had it since I was a kid. That's why I'm a night owl.
My insomnia is intermittent! I'll go for two weeks and I'm fine! Then one night out of the blue at 2am my eyes open and I'm wide awake for the next four nights then repeat at random intervals until frustration sets in...
Last night I slept tge sleep of the exhausted. The previous three nights were horrible and I just couldn’t function. Here I am, up early again.
My sleep is all over the map anymore. Sometimes I sleep well (I'm traditionally a 10:30-6:30 sleeper), sometimes fitfully (a lot of this recently; sleep for a while, have a weird or bad dream, wake up, go back to sleep, wake up having to use the loo, go back to sleep, another dream ... you get the idea), sometimes I'll be awake for an hour or two, usually in the wee hours.
Insomnia is a pain in the butt ...
I have tried everything ...I found lavender essential oil with a little lotion rubbed on my feet helps a lot .
Now I'm at the point I just sleep when I'm tired
Not working full time is a good thing sometimes
It is....so click it
