Yeah, I haven't slept for more than 3 hours in the last week. Does anyone have a cure for insomnia? Please tell me, as I have to go back to school tomorrow and I'm dead as it is.
I don't do weed, and I'm not hungry. I'm not anorexic, I'm just abnormally thin!
Drugs KILL! You sound like this guy at my school...He smells like weed-smoke all the time, but seriously help.
Yeah, I used to have no insomnia, but my friends have made me get it somehow. First it was one hour of lost sleep, now I'm living on caffiene. It always sucks. Luckily I have the internet to keep me company. 3 am yesterday, today, whatever. 4 cups of coffee, and a coke. I still slept through most of Spanish.
no debes dormir durante de la clase de español porque ahora no me puedes entender.
What? I just take the class, I don't understand it.
I've tried homework, and it hasn't worked, because so far the only homework I've had to have is reading the Odyssey by homer, and I'm a total bookworm.
Hey, I've had some serious insomnia before. It sucks, and I'm sorry. Here are a few things that might help:
1. Warm milk. This serves two purposes-- it has a thing in it that makes you sleepy, and also the time that it takes to prepare and consume a special and hilarious bedtime drink kind of gets you calm a little bit.
2. Decide when your bedtime is supposed to be, and then go to bed an hour earlier. During that hour, you can read (something MEDIUM INTERESTING, neither boring nor extremely gripping), you can listen to talk radio as long as you don't get too excited about it, or you can just kind of sit around and think. Whatever. I've played Tetris during this time, even. The idea is not necessarily to knock yourself out, but to take some quiet time to calm yourself down before sleeping.
When your bedtime hits, put your book/radio etc away. If you're still not feeling like sleep, practice wiping your thoughts out of your head and relaxing yourself physically. It'll get easier with time.
Once you at least kind of break that sleep barrier, I know a lot of people recommend just magically getting back to a regular schedule, but sometimes it's hard to do. It's ok to set some mini-goals for yourself, ramping up to a regular schedule within a week. Mini-goals are like: Tomorrow I will not sleep in at all. The next day, I will go to bed on time and not sleep in. The next day, I will not take a nap and I'll still go to bed at the correct time.
Actually, do you have access to turkey? Turkey has something in it that makes you sleepy, that's why everyone wants to crash after Thanksgiving dinner. Maybe eat a turkey sandwich. You're technically not supposed to eat before going to bed, cause it makes you fat, but you said you're really thin anyway.
Actually I think that's not true, just a common misconception. Apparently it's the large amount of calories and carbohydrates you usually consume on Thanksgiving.
It does contain tryptophan which will cause the release of serotonin. But it's not what makes people tired on Thanksgiving. You'd need a near fatal does or some such for it to actually have an effect.
Stef said what I was gonna say. The worst thing to do if your experiencing insomnia is to engage in some boredom-reducing activity. STAY OFF THE INTERNET. Stay in you bed, read or play an easy video game. Anything that requires minimal concentration. Make sure that you're set up so all you have to do is flip a switch or put down a gameboy without getting out of bed. This way, when you finally get tired, you don't have to move an wake yourself up.
If you aren't exagerrating and you have literally slept 3hrs in the last 7 days then it is definitely due to stress.
Figure out what the source of stress is and deal with it or at least work around it. Because, if it's a genuine problem that's the only way you'll fix it, forget the chemical work-arounds. The subconscious will beat caffeine/tryptophane every single time.
Failing that quit exagerrating and genuinely hold yourself to a sleeping standard that (at minimum) leaves you with enough consciousness to deal with your priority concerns during your day.
I work 2 days a week and I'm perfectly happy to admit the other 5 days for me is instant nocturnalism. I've had enough time to figure out how to blag (bullshit/fake) the other 2 days to make it look like I'm working hard. You just need to find your limits and work to them.
...right...well I actually got 8 hours of sleep last night...but that was more due to the rain than anything else. My grades might be what's keeping me up, but I doubt it. They're up now (compared to the lower ones two weeks ago) I'm seemingly immune to Advil, but Zyrtec works. I hope I don';t get addicted. Thanks for the suggestions ^w^.
...it don't work that way for me. But It did take me about 2 hours to get to sleep, so I now have a weird pattern on some graph paper that I'll probably scan and post later. Right now I'm 1) at school, and 2) too lazy.
I'm on easter holiday! Have been for the last week. Then only 15 school days and my traditional education ends, and four months of summer holiday begin, broken only by a couple of exams. Then it's drinking non-stop until october, when I go to uni and start drinking non-stop in a different city!
I have no problem getting to sleep, but I feel like I constantly need more of it. My suggestion would be like the others, STAY OFF THE INTERNET. Especially youtube or newgrounds. I can be exhausted and get on that site and be online for hours watching content loops of flash cartoons and videos.
Sorry you're having such a hard time sleeping, insomnia sounds absolutely dreadful. Hope last night was an indicator of you getting better, because I know people who have suffered from insomnia and it really makes things tough.
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However you may be very hungry.
Drugs KILL! You sound like this guy at my school...He smells like weed-smoke all the time, but seriously help.
What? I just take the class, I don't understand it.
I've tried homework, and it hasn't worked, because so far the only homework I've had to have is reading the Odyssey by homer, and I'm a total bookworm.
Uh...Oh...wait...
1. Warm milk. This serves two purposes-- it has a thing in it that makes you sleepy, and also the time that it takes to prepare and consume a special and hilarious bedtime drink kind of gets you calm a little bit.
2. Decide when your bedtime is supposed to be, and then go to bed an hour earlier. During that hour, you can read (something MEDIUM INTERESTING, neither boring nor extremely gripping), you can listen to talk radio as long as you don't get too excited about it, or you can just kind of sit around and think. Whatever. I've played Tetris during this time, even. The idea is not necessarily to knock yourself out, but to take some quiet time to calm yourself down before sleeping.
When your bedtime hits, put your book/radio etc away. If you're still not feeling like sleep, practice wiping your thoughts out of your head and relaxing yourself physically. It'll get easier with time.
Once you at least kind of break that sleep barrier, I know a lot of people recommend just magically getting back to a regular schedule, but sometimes it's hard to do. It's ok to set some mini-goals for yourself, ramping up to a regular schedule within a week. Mini-goals are like: Tomorrow I will not sleep in at all. The next day, I will go to bed on time and not sleep in. The next day, I will not take a nap and I'll still go to bed at the correct time.
Good luck.
Stef said what I was gonna say. The worst thing to do if your experiencing insomnia is to engage in some boredom-reducing activity. STAY OFF THE INTERNET. Stay in you bed, read or play an easy video game. Anything that requires minimal concentration. Make sure that you're set up so all you have to do is flip a switch or put down a gameboy without getting out of bed. This way, when you finally get tired, you don't have to move an wake yourself up.
*Angry-face*
Also, rophynal helps.
Figure out what the source of stress is and deal with it or at least work around it. Because, if it's a genuine problem that's the only way you'll fix it, forget the chemical work-arounds. The subconscious will beat caffeine/tryptophane every single time.
Failing that quit exagerrating and genuinely hold yourself to a sleeping standard that (at minimum) leaves you with enough consciousness to deal with your priority concerns during your day.
I work 2 days a week and I'm perfectly happy to admit the other 5 days for me is instant nocturnalism. I've had enough time to figure out how to blag (bullshit/fake) the other 2 days to make it look like I'm working hard. You just need to find your limits and work to them.
I don't need to sleep now!
Sorry you're having such a hard time sleeping, insomnia sounds absolutely dreadful. Hope last night was an indicator of you getting better, because I know people who have suffered from insomnia and it really makes things tough.