Problems Falling Asleep

**midnightjoker** · 12-13-2003 05:42 AM

I seem to have developed a case of insomnia lately. It takes me forever to fall asleep.

My usual schedule:

6:45 am - Get up for school on weekdays
10:00ish pm - Go watch TV in my room
10:30ish pm - Wash up and try to go to bed
11:30ish pm - Look at the clock and wonder why the hell I'm still awake

Next morning at 6:45 - Wake up extremely tired and vow to go to bed earlier tonight. Sure.

So what's the deal? I don't do anything physically involving in the evenings (I only work out 3x a week Mon/Wed/Fri around 3 pm) so I'm not wired from that. I don't eat too much after dinner.

On weekends, I'll usually go to bed really late, at least after midnight, then I'll wake up around 11:00 am. I never have trouble falling asleep after a fun evening when I get home really late. So I get up just before noon on weekends and then am forced to get up early again on Monday. It seems like my 'clock' is off a couple hours - I go to bed an hour or two late and get up an hour or two late.

Suggestions?

**nerve** · 12-13-2003 06:03 AM

you call THAT insomnia..I'm confused. I usually go to bed around...3 am, and get up at 6 or 7. it's either because I can't sleep, or I'm messing around on the computer. 11:30? ha. I scoff at thee.

**LightSearcher** · 12-13-2003 12:07 PM

Get yourself tired...then sleep like a Log.

I've found that the less active I'am during the day the harder it is to sleep at night.

**dougdrums** · 12-13-2003 06:50 PM

benedryl

but really, I have the same problem. I can never do WILD's, I just never fall asleep. I usually need to turn the radio or tv on to goto bed.

**jacobo** · 12-14-2003 04:37 AM

nyQuil! -- also something that works well, DON'T think about stuff! just don't, if a girl pops into your head... pop her back out. focus on somthing, maybe the tic of the second hand on a clock... or your breathing... if it's raining listen to the sound of the rain falling... trance music works for me sometimes... pink floyd works, portishead, massive attack... music that's laid back. -- NIN doesnt do it, Tool, Deftones... nope. -- seriously though. NO girls. they'll fuck with your head.

**will.i.am** · 12-14-2003 05:49 AM

Originally posted by adidas
NO girls. they'll fuck with your head.

You bet'cha!

I go to bed around ten, but I like to work on my WILD for an hour or just meditate. That gets me pretty tired. Sometimes... I'll acutally do some homework. Haha, just puts me out really fast

**dougdrums** · 12-15-2003 01:21 AM

Originally posted by adidas
NO girls. they'll fuck with your head.

LMFAO! NO SHIT!

**phantasy** · 12-15-2003 06:44 PM

Aww, what's wrong with girlies?
Guys are no better.

**dougdrums** · 12-15-2003 06:51 PM

eh, it's fair then

**Seeker** · 12-15-2003 06:53 PM

Thinking of girls (women for me) doesn't affect my ability to fall asleep at all. I've often drifted off into a happy reastful sleep while thinking of romantic (and kinky) things...

Why does it mess with yours? Just curious...

**dougdrums** · 12-15-2003 06:56 PM

I think he was just being sarcastic...?

**Tim** · 12-18-2003 07:40 AM

i usually try to think about nothing while im falling asleep, but my (now ex) girlfriend always pops into my head, and then i am totally awake! i say "get outta my head!" but she just sits there keeping me awake. sometimes it helps to picture her in a bubble, and then picture the bubble floating away.

**jacobo** · 12-18-2003 08:31 AM

i have a good imagination, and if i think about girls i just can't get to sleep.

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