Sleeping?

[JennyorAlice]

Do you have problems with being able to go to sleep or stay asleep? Do you take anything to help you sleep? What do you try to avoid that you know will keep you awake?

 

[chrispas93]

Sleeping is a natural process that we should not resist and try to avoid. It will lead to serious health problems if we neglect it. In my case, I always drink turmeric tea before I go to sleep. I have a very sound and good sleep. Apart from this benefit, it has cured my morning headaches from which I have suffered for months. I think that you should give it a try if it works for you. You do not lose anything. It's a very good tea.

 

[tad1213]

I usually can fall asleep fine, as long as it is in my own bed. However, I do struggle sleeping through an entire night without waking up. Usually, I have a lot of dreams or nightmares and these cause me to awake in the middle of the might, 3 or 4 times, at least. I have never taken anything to help me sleep because, honestly, I am afraid .I am afraid of becoming an addict of some kind, or to ever feel like I need something. Even if it is something like tea as someone else mentioned. I don't want my body to feel that it needs something. I am not sure if this is logical or makes sense, but perhaps it is just another fear of mine. I try to avoid too much TV right before bed. I think that many of the scenes I watch have an impact on what types of dreams I can have. I would rather relax before bed and try to clear my mind.

 

[Zeesi]

Falling asleep and waking up are both fairly easy for me, but if I find myself having difficulty with either I have certain things that I do. If I'm feeling too restless to go to sleep, that either means that I need to get up and do some type of work, or that means I need a couple of sips of wine.


I usually opt for the wine because A) drinking is not something that is addictive for me so a few sips to go to sleep is fine. Speaking only in my particular case of course, not saying that it would work for everybody. And B) because usually when I lay down, even if I find myself tossing and turning, I don't like to get back up and start working even if my restlessness is telling me otherwise.


As far as waking up, I'm an avid coffee drinker. I'm one of those people who likes to discover and taste different kinds of coffee (although I've been sticking to just one brand lately). I kind of use coffee as a motivator to get myself out of bed, especially if I'm tempted to hit the snooze button on my alarm several times without actually getting up. If I have an important appointment, I'll put my loud alarm across the room, which forces me to get up and go turn it off. Usually that does the trick, and I'll stay awake... and go fix myself some coffee.

 

[John Snort]

Do you have problems with being able to go to sleep or stay asleep?

I always have problems falling asleep unless I'm really exhausted. That's why most nights, I'll have trouble sleeping and even then two or three hours sleep is the best I can hope for.

Do you take anything to help you sleep?

I did take some medication but the thought of getting addicted wasn't pleasant which was why I stopped using the drug. I've tried drinking almond milk before bedtime because they say it helps but it didn't.

What do you try to avoid that you know will keep you awake.

Sleep experts say one shouldn't watch TV, be on the phone or net, or play any games two hours before they go to sleep. I do that these days but it still has no effect.

 

[Alex]

I've always struggled to sleep since childhood and am a light sleeper and rarely sleep straight through unless I am ill, physically exhausted, or jet lagged. I guess I have learned to live with it and cope as best as I can. People have suggested that I take pills, but I don't think it's solution. It's not that I can't sleep, but I struggle and need a long wind down to exhaust myself.


Pills I find can be addictive, plus I feel that it can be dangerous. In the back of my mind I think what if there was a fire or someone was breaking in? I wouldn't be able to wake up naturally to protect myself. I once took some strong flu medication that knocked me out, and I recall someone knocked on my dorm door, and I wanted to go and answer, but my body just couldn't do it. After that feeling of helplessness, I have never taken such strong medication as it made me feel vulnerable.

 

[sorrowscall]

I used to be incapable of sleep at all. I had to take this chalk-like medication for seventeen years. It wasn't a medication for drowsiness, it was something to knock me unconcious in under thirty minutes. I didn't much like it because I felt I had no control over my own sleep patterns and I didn't trust my family much during this time. I would isolate myself and lock my bedroom door before taking that stuff to sleep.


Then suddenly, when I graduated high school, my mother decided I didn't need it anymore and cut me off during my final exams of that senior year. I'm no stranger to weeks of no sleep thanks to that.


I now avoid using knock-out medication since it's my choice. As it turns out, some warm tea and listening to white noise helps the most. I tend to also avoid bright lights. Lately, holding my phone a certain way has been helpful too. I do it in a way that stretches my arms and relaxes my muscles.

 

[cluckeyo]

My problem is that there are not enough hours in a day. If I could live without sleep, I most certainly would. I have been trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep but my body seems to need 8 hours per night. It's hard to decided what to spend less time on, but I am going to have to cut corners somewhere apparently.

 

[x0xLikeMex0x]

I use an app for tracking my sleeping habits. You can set your ideal sleep length there, mine is set on 8 hours like any normal human being should sleep. Every time I go to sleep, I push the "go to sleep" button and when I wake up, I push the "wake up" button. It calculates the hours I sleep and my sleep debt.


I'm often in sleep debt, since it's hard for me to go sleep early, but I still have to wake up early to go to work or to school.


Also I use blue-light blocking app before I go to sleep, and it really helps me fall asleep a lot earlier.

 

[Panic57]

It depends on how stressed out I am because that sometimes causes me to not be able to see and other times I hit the pillow and won't wake up. But if you need to sleep, don't have caffeinated beverages three hours before you plan on going to bed. My problem is that I have trouble staying awake so I inhale Mountain Dew or coffee until I need to go to sleep. But if you can resist drinking caffeine for three hours, that will help you go to sleep. I like listening to music while I sleep but it can't be to loud or fast. When I was younger I used to take a sleeping aid but I kind of got addicted to it to the point that I couldn't go to sleep without it. So I stopped,d I've been scared to used a sleep aid or the medicine for that reason. I'm not a fan of hot milk but hot chocolate can be a nice treat though I know friends who have herbal teas before going to bed. I also avoid eating really heavy meals because that heaviness of being over stuffed goes into my chest when I lay down and makes it hard t sleep.

 

[Ippolito]

I used to suffer from insomnia when I was a kid and it gradually got worse with time until it wasn't unusual for me stay up for a couple of days straight. I think it was due to a chronic vitamin D deficiency because ever since I've started taking supplements, my sleep schedule has returned to normal.

 

[explorerX7]

If there is a challenging issue that is really mentally taxing me, I may find if I try to sleep I cannot sleep no matter how hard I might try to. I will be up all night because I will not be relaxed enough to go to sleep because of anxiety. I try the best I can not be faced with that situation because it can be so frustrating and unpleasant.

 

[Sue]

I never sleep well. I always have problems falling to sleep. If I did fall asleep quickly then I have problems staying asleep. i only ever get 4-5 hours of sleep a night. After awhile I start to feel run out and anxious.

 

[audrinaa]

I don't go to sleep till about 3 am and once I get my son up at 6:30 am for school on weekdays I always go back to sleep until about noon. I hate sleeping so much. I used to take a natural over the counter medication called Melatonin, even that wasn't working any more. I would go to sleep with no problem about 30 minutes after I took up. Yet if I had to get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom I felt like I was wide awake and couldn't go back to sleep. So eventually I just quit taking them. Now I just stay up until I get tired.

 

[111kg]

I try to avoid caffeine, especially when I am using nootropics, not because it will keep me awake, but I've noticed one thing: whenever I take piracetam, for instance, and drink coke 0, I have horrible dreams and then I wake up with an anxiety attack. So no, at least for the moment, I won't be drinking coffee or coke 0 anytime soon.

 

[audrinaa]

I used to suffer from insomnia when I was a kid and it gradually got worse with time until it wasn't unusual for me stay up for a couple of days straight. I think it was due to a chronic vitamin D deficiency because ever since I've started taking supplements, my sleep schedule has returned to normal.

How long after you started taking the supplements did your schedule return to normal?

 

[Ippolito]

I used to suffer from insomnia when I was a kid and it gradually got worse with time until it wasn't unusual for me stay up for a couple of days straight. I think it was due to a chronic vitamin D deficiency because ever since I've started taking supplements, my sleep schedule has returned to normal.

It happened pretty quickly, I started noticing a difference within a few days of taking the supplement. I take one tablet every day during dinner, and each tablet contains 20 mg of vitamin D3.

 

[Suzie]

This is a great question. I have a hard time getting to sleep for the most part because my mind races and will not shut off. I have to take a melatoin pill and half a unisom to be able to get to sleep and pretty much stay asleep other than my nightly bathroom break. I fought for so long trying to get sleep and couldn't get consistent good sleep until I took these supplements. Others told me taking them would be harmful to my health but getting no sleep can be harmful to your health too right? It has been the best thing for me to take them and it has helped my anxiety so much!

 

[Laneorexorcist]

I barely have problems to fall asleep. Luckily I'm a great sleeper, and the only times when things get hard is when I have something big going on the next day just as presentations or a big travel. I used to have problems before but I made a routine before going to bed and that has helped me a lot. I read a little bit of manga after falling asleep and that's it, it's like magic!

 

[djanx]

Do you have problems with being able to go to sleep or stay asleep? Do you take anything to help you sleep? What do you try to avoid that you know will keep you awake?

I use the app Pzizz to sleep. It provides guided power nap and full sleep binaural music. I can for the miracle of binaural music. I used to listen to binaural music off of YouTube but then I found this app and tried it. It works well. Basically, it'll put you to deep sleep within 20 minutes, which for someone like me was amazing.


I used to not be able to sleep. And then when I finally would go to sleep, I would wake up at ungodly hours like 3 or 4 in the morning. This even interfered with my ability to work. So, then I decided to solve this problem and that too without taking medication. Try binaural music. Maybe it'll help you too.