What helps you sleep?
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I listen to the Harry Potter books on tape.
Not because they're boring or anything (I actually love those books) but because I used to listen to them as a kid at night. I would try not to fall asleep and listen to a side of a cassette every night but I'd never make it. Now those suckers are like knock-out gas for me.
Not because they're boring or anything (I actually love those books) but because I used to listen to them as a kid at night. I would try not to fall asleep and listen to a side of a cassette every night but I'd never make it. Now those suckers are like knock-out gas for me.
Playing portable gaming devices in bed helps. Tetris helps, since it's pressuring without being unforgiving.
I totalay understand that. I always have problems to sleep at nights, but when my GF is there its totally easy.Astoria said:
When i am somewhere else then home, i usually dont have problems to sleep either. Say i am visiting friends or am in vacation or something. There is just so little to remind me of things to think about there.
At home i either watch some series till i am really tired or read, then i listen to an audiobook in very low volume so that i really have to listen to it to understand it and my concentration doesnt wander of in the usual thoughts that annoy me at night. All the stuff i have to do, problems that are to solve, or even stuff that didnt worked out well in the past and thats totally irrelevant but i use to think them through again how it could have worked etc.
2 bottles of wine do the trick too, but that sleep isnt really very refreshing.
I listen to a song I like in my head.
I only drink a third of a cup of wine at the most which only makes me a little sleepy. I don't think wine would help me sleep.
I only drink a third of a cup of wine at the most which only makes me a little sleepy. I don't think wine would help me sleep.
slow music, i have a giant playlist in Spotify devoted to helping me sleep.
its stuff like maroon 5 and boston, queen and hinder, alter bridge.
its stuff like maroon 5 and boston, queen and hinder, alter bridge.
Either some kind of white noise or a focused train of thought, I tend to think of random things if I'm trying to sleep so I need something to drown it out.
Today it's either my DS or i fall alseep watching some show/movie
I used to read a lot before sleep, but then i'd just get caught up in the story or just wouldn't sleep.
I used to read a lot before sleep, but then i'd just get caught up in the story or just wouldn't sleep.
Lieing with a partner. Just the lieing makes me so much more relaxed than I normally am I've fallen to sleep in stupid places or at dumb times due to this effect. I must say my chonic insomnia has helped towards the more dumb falling to sleep moments not being able to sleep for up too 72+ hours at a time is fun. Such and in the middle of sex or just while talking mid sentence.
I have to take presciption medication to help me fall asleep, but to help me stay asleep, I listen to either a movie with commentary on, or I keep a small pair of speakers on my bed table and I hook up my mp3 player (repeating on one song) to them. I plug the mp3 charger into the wall so it stays on.
I recommend when listening you keep it at a level you can hear the music well enough, but not loud enough that it will keep you up. I just started doing that, and I can't remember when I've slept that well.
I recommend when listening you keep it at a level you can hear the music well enough, but not loud enough that it will keep you up. I just started doing that, and I can't remember when I've slept that well.
Exercise, reading, green tea, lack of coffee and tea, and not eating much. Not eating much except for something nutritious but low in calories like vegetable soup gets me into a calmer, more stable state, probably because I lack the rush of energy to care and I have a certain attitude towards it. I think it's why some religions advocate periods of fasting to clear the mind. It also makes me wake up early without an alarm, with this empty, almost romantic feeling.
I don't think green tea chemically facilitates sleep, but it's supposed to be good for you somehow and I feel something hot, sugarless and (mostly) lacking in caffeine matches bedtime.
If you feel like experimenting a little, if you haven't already, cut out sugar (apart from a little fruit), caffeine, and most other simple carbohydrates for a few days. Eat until 70 percent full, as the Japanese say. Go for a run or do some other exercises.
I don't think green tea chemically facilitates sleep, but it's supposed to be good for you somehow and I feel something hot, sugarless and (mostly) lacking in caffeine matches bedtime.
If you feel like experimenting a little, if you haven't already, cut out sugar (apart from a little fruit), caffeine, and most other simple carbohydrates for a few days. Eat until 70 percent full, as the Japanese say. Go for a run or do some other exercises.
