Unable to sleep

I can usually sleep like any other person but about one every two weeks (sometimes several nights in a row) i find it really hard to fall asleep and i can be lying awake for between 2-3 hours.

Take last night i was hoping to be falling asleep at 05:00 but knew it was going to be one of those nights when i was still wide awake at 05:30, i tried for what seemed like an age till had to look at the time, it was 06:33.
I was still awake at 07:30. Soon after i fell asleep.

The worst was several weeks ago when i was trying to get to sleep at 04:30 and was still awake at 08:20!

My point is, is this helpful in being lucid. Of course not being asleep will never help.
But just curouis.

everyone has those. I know I do. But it's usually when I am excited for something.

i also have those night some times.... when i feel im not going to sleep i try to wild if im in the mood. But most of the times i just throw my body around in the bed to find a nice sleeping position. It would be cool to use those nights to try to sleep on command, someway. Maybe passing right into a dream.

I used to have a this a lot to, i found a perfect remedy though, i read when im in bed till my eyes get heavy, thats when i drop my book to the side turn of the light and fall right asleep, might work in your case to..

One thing I have found helpful, almost always, is to place a blanket or pillow near your face. Not so close as to be uncomfortable, but close enough to feel the warmth of your breath. Somehow, breathing the recycled air is very relaxing.

I have noticed that somtimes in my case that if I don't get any exercise or enough exercise that I have trouble going to sleep as well.

And it is usually not helpful for lucid dreaming because it is hard to remain focused on any particular technique for such a long duration of time.
Also when you do finallyget to sleep you tend to not get the adequate time of sleep required to best incubate any lucid dreams. Not to say you still cannot have them.

I can NEVER fall asleep until 4 in the morning (at the earliest), and I often wake up after a couple hours and can't fall back asleep. I'm told I snore and thrash around in my sleep, and I'm tired when I wake up even after 8 hours of lying down. I've tried everything.... CDs, exercise, meditation, etc. but nothing seems to work. I finally decided to schedule a doctors appointment so that I can get some professional help, because its starting to take over my life. I'm missing classes, ignoring responsibilities, and groggy all day long. This sucks because I used to remember 5 or 6 dreams a night, with lots of lucid dreams that I would love and enjoy. Now all I have is my dream journal to remember them because I don't have any new dreams due to my lack of proper sleep. I'm wondering if medications like Ambien or Xanax can make lucid dreams harder to come by. Please help!!!!

http://www.dreamviews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8205

This link may help?

I've suffered Insomnia for years on and off. I try to keep away from medications when possible but have been on three different types and for me I still lucid dream on theses meds. Can't say I’ve taken the ones you named.

It dose sux man, when you do lucid dream in that kind of head space the dreams are random, sometimes stable and then sometimes very unstable, sometimes even freaky, well for me anyway.

Man it took me ages to get to sleep last night, I went for a bmx ride around the bays to make my self physically tired which worked then I fucken get woken up at 430am by bloody road works outside my bedroom window, man I was pissed. Didn't manage to get back to sleep.

Sometimes for me if I can not slow my brain down enough to sleep cos its too busy with thought I do a real lame thing which is counting to 10 over and over again. My mind gets absolutely board and I sleep. Yes it is lame but for me it sometimes works.

Good luck.
Peace Sensi.

From the Tutorial section there is information& links on insomnia & other sleep disorders :D

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One thing I have found helpful, almost always, is to place a blanket or pillow near your face. Not so close as to be uncomfortable, but close enough to feel the warmth of your breath. Somehow, breathing the recycled air is very relaxing.

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Yeah this definatley works. When I'm at a party or a mate's place I just bring my swag (like a canvass sleeping bag) and cuz theres a flap of canvass over my face I sleep almost instantly, without fail. Either that or I pass out from too much grog. :)