Sleeping

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by Joaquin, Feb 19, 2007.

  1. Joaquin Sleuth Registered Senior Member

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    Any one got tips on sleeping well?. Just noticed recently im having disturbed sleep
     
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  3. vslayer Registered Senior Member

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    get a job. when your doing hard labour for 16 hours a day, you sleep like a rock from the moment you hit your bed
     
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  5. Nickelodeon Banned Banned

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    Or exercise regulary.
     
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  7. John Connellan Valued Senior Member

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    Drink!

    Or, go with the flow and stay up all night. Watch the sunrise. I guarantee, the next night u will have the deepest sleep of your life!
     
  8. Search & Destroy Take one bite at a time Moderator

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    there's probably something on your mind
     
  9. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Have you changed the time or place when/where you sleep?
     
  10. Nickelodeon Banned Banned

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    If your thinking about Darren, don't worry. I'm sure he won't escape from prison...again.
     
  11. John Connellan Valued Senior Member

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    That's what u think!


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    Here Darren, Darren.....
     
  12. tablariddim forexU2 Valued Senior Member

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    Ah, the old hamster in the cage ploy.
     
  13. Nickelodeon Banned Banned

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    LOL

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  14. draqon Banned Banned

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    just like do 100 PushuPs in sets of 20 in 5-10 minutes.
     
  15. Redefine91 I piss excellence Registered Senior Member

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    Melatonin
     
  16. phonetic stroking my banjo Registered Senior Member

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    A glass of milk with a few drops of GHB before bed.
     
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    I flout the conventional wisdom and do most of my eating at night. I can eat a decent breakfast (which I have to now) but if I have anything more than a small handful of nuts for lunch I fall asleep in my afternoon meetings. So I get most of my food at dinner, which starts when I get home and continues all evening, and then right before bed I eat a luscious high-calorie dessert. That usually puts me to sleep about halfway through one page of a book.

    You could be having a circadian rhythm problem, especially during the winter. Your body (mostly your face) needs about thirty minutes of sunlight every day to recalibrate its natural 25+ hour cycle. (Don't ask what the evolutionary advantage of this was, but it's what people ease into in experiments when they're locked up with no sun and no clocks.) If you can't get outside, use solar-spectrum fluorescents indoors and do not wait until right before bed to remember to use it.

    If you can't fall asleep, don't fight it. Get up and do something. Play a videogame, watch late night TV, or just turn on your bedside lamp and read a book. Don't do something like Sci Forums because it will probably wake you up. Don't let your unconscious attach any drama to this. Tossing and turning, lying awake in the dark cursing the flesh and blood that your wondrous intellect is shackled to, will just establish a behavior pattern and make it worse.

    As you get older you need less sleep, for the unwelcome reason that your body simply becomes less able to do maintenance so there's less of it to do. You need to schedule shorter sleep cycles as the years pass.

    You may develop a greater sensitivity to stimulants as you grow older. Things you ingest without a second thought may be pumping chemicals into your bloodstream that have a longer half-life than they used to. Try eliminating caffeine for a couple of days and see if you sleep better. If you can't make it through the day without caffeine, then by all rational standards you're a drug addict and you should try to heal yourself. The fact that in America caffeine doesn't count as an addictive drug because we pander it to our children is no help to people like me, who can pour out two ounces of Dr. Pepper in a measuring cup on Saturday morning and spend the entire weekend bouncing off the ceiling.

    Chocolate also contains caffeine. The darker the chocolate, the stronger the dose. These days several non-cola soft drinks are spiked with caffeine, so read the labels. Mountain Dew is obvious but there are others.

    Tea contains caffeine although everyone probably knows that by now. Ginseng and several other herbs contain other chemicals that may act as stimulants on some people's body chemistry. Chocolate also contains theobroma which is more of a mood elevator than a physical stimulant, but the effect of all these chemicals has not been studied thoroughly and is unpredictable on any one individual. Some people swear coffee helps them fall asleep.

    Prescription sleep aids tend to have a long half-life and may continue to slow you down long after you wake up. The benzodiazepenes have a 36-hour half-life. If you take one every night, within a couple of weeks you'll have the equivalent of between one and a half and two and a half of those suckers floating around in your bloodstream at all times.
     
  19. RubiksMaster Real eyes realize real lies Registered Senior Member

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    50 milligrams of diphenhydramine an hour before going to bed. It's available over the counter, and non-addictive (unlike most prescription sleep aids). The only downside is you'll probably wake up with a very dry mouth and throat.

    Use medications only as a temporary fix, until your circadian rhythm is back to normal, or until you find out why you aren't sleeping well.
     
  20. G. F. Schleebenhorst England != UK Registered Senior Member

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    Make sure you sleep in pitch black.
     
  21. Joaquin Sleuth Registered Senior Member

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    i never had a problem till recently, i think i may need curtains. I t wil make the room darker bit more relaxing i think.
     
  22. swivel Sci-Fi Author Valued Senior Member

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    Read Proust.
     
  23. draqon Banned Banned

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    Read Karl Marx Communist writings...o boy

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