How Do You Get to Sleep ?

[The Mersey's Watcher]

Does anyone have any sleeping problems or sleeping solutions. Any tips on how to get a good nights sleep and not wake up feeling like a bag of sh-- ?.

[Outdoorsman]

I find I need 8-9 hours of sleep a night to feel excellent in the morning. I simply make sure I get to bed early enough, which is not always easy with a full schedule.

Also, I try to make sure I'm getting enough nutrition in my diet through good food and supplementation.

[æinvargR]

Write stuff down, things you have to do, take care of, buy etc, before you go to sleep; so you clear your head and can relax. That helps me fall asleep. Excercising is good for your sleep too.

And I never go to bed if I'm not tired. But I often get tired when watching tv on my couch in the afternoon or evening and easily fall asleep, yet that doesn't seem to make me fall asleep in the night if I want to fall asleep. That reminds me of when I was younger and wanted to read my comics before sleeping, then I'd often fall asleep. If I just wanted to sleep, it was harder.

[Hveðrungur Kveldúlfsson]

Ive suffered from bad insomnia for years. The only thing I can recomend is wearing yourself out during the daytime.

[Sigurd]

i used to have problems going to bed early and could not sleep until 2 o clock. luckily enough my body does not need more than 5 hours of sleep to function properly.
probably it is best that you do so much during the day that you cant do anything else except just falling asleep, in the evening...

[Liffrea]

I find grabbing an hour in the afternoon beneficial and refreshing. As for insomnia if you cant sleep get up, watch TV, read go for a walk. Your body will sort its self out in its own time, if there is no medical or psychological reason for it.

[Der Einzelgänger]

I stay up until I feel tired. If I want to fall asleep earlier I'll workout very hard that day.

[val-freya]

I used to suffer from insomnia as well. When I had problems sleeping I would drink a cup of valerian tea. The stuff smells aweful but you can mask the smell with lots of peppermint added to it. It doesn't make you feel groggy or anything like that the next day. It works wonderfully. You can also take it by pill form, but I prefer a nice warm cup of tea to help me relax. It was the only thing that would help me, otherwise I would be up tossing and turning all night long.

[Outdoorsman]

I used to suffer from insomnia as well. When I had problems sleeping I would drink a cup of valerian tea. The stuff smells aweful but you can mask the smell with lots of peppermint added to it. It doesn't make you feel groggy or anything like that the next day. It works wonderfully. You can also take it by pill form, but I prefer a nice warm cup of tea to help me relax. It was the only thing that would help me, otherwise I would be up tossing and turning all night long.

I should try that. It's been taking me longer to get to sleep lately.

[Norsk Blod]

I have never had any problem sleeping and I love sleeping too. I dont see how people cant stand sleeping, I wouldnt say I look foward to sleeping but I do enjoy climbing in and sleeping.
I have always slept with tunes on, which helps me get to sleep. especially now that im used to it I find it hard to sleep without tunes or some kind of 'noise'

[thorson]

I had a sleep problem when I got out of combat. It sucked. I didn't get a good nights sleep for years. I could hear every creak in whole house. Read the Havamal. Section 23 reads:


Foolish is he who frets at night,
And lies awake to worry'
A weary man when morning comes,
He finds all as bad as before

[Katia]

Chamomile tea and a good book.. It'll knock ya right out...

[Loki's Advocate]

Doing some physical exercise an hour or so before bed-time works wonders. That way, you get the exercise, the flush of blood and adrenaline, and then it all ebbs away nicely, leaving you exerted and nicely tired, ready for sleep.

[ensonulv]

I workout in the moring and to my core routine just before I take a shower at night, then put on the best of Blondi and useally read, I almost always fall asleep before 6:00pm (not cool when your trying to party all night :rolleyes: ).

[Teufelhunden]

Wow sleep and I have never been on the best terms.. I rememebr back in the military that I got to where I could "function" on about 3 hrs a day with mission schedules. Today I work grave shift and, when I get off at 0545 AM I get about 3 hrs and then get back down to sleep about 14-1500, but I rarley feel rested cause I blame the schedue I am on..
Hey by the way where can I get a cool graphic thingy like Norsk or Hved???? I am green with envy, and it is not just the bad burrito I ate... :D

[æinvargR]

I have always slept with tunes on, which helps me get to sleep. especially now that im used to it I find it hard to sleep without tunes or some kind of 'noise'
I always sleep with my mp3-player, it shuts itself off after an hour, and often in the morning I lie half-sleeping while listening for a while before I get up. :)

[The Mersey's Watcher]

I have always slept with tunes on, which helps me get to sleep. especially now that im used to it I find it hard to sleep without tunes or some kind of 'noise'

Listening to music to get to sleep is a good idea and it sometimes helps me get a decent nights sleep, sometimes. When I go to bed my head usualy races with ideas, I find if I put music on then my mind concentrates on the music, and then I forget my ideas and fall asleep. However listening to music for me can sometimes just prospone(sp?) the ideas in my head untill after the music has finished :( .

Lately I've been going to sleep once every two days for about 9 hours. I've been doing this for about over a week now. When I wake up on a monday for example, lets say at 9am, I wont go to sleep until 9pm on tuesday. I find it very easy to stay awake as long as I keep my mind active and a cup of coffee beside me at all times. By the time tuesday night comes I sleep like a baby :D .

[Teufelhunden]

Thorson I know what you mean, My wife still has to wake me up at a distance because I still to this day jump up. My father is the same way ,he was a Green beret in Nam, you still do not want to shake him awake, you are takin your life in your hands.
Question for ya?
when you do get sleep does your brain seem to be on overdrive and keep re running the same thing over and over no matter how simple or mundane? thus waking you up?
I am about to go to see a counselor cause I can not get things out of my head, and I can't sleep like a normal person.

[Liffrea]

There is an English band called Turin Brakes. Nice acoustic sounds sends me off in no time.

[Schwarzesonne]

I used to suffer terrible insomnia. It affected me almost every night for years, and sometimes I’d even turn to certain intoxicants to cure the problem. But that just meant that I passed out, not that I fell asleep.

The United States Army cured me of that! I can now sleep next to a Paladin Howitzer firing 155mm shells, snoring away next to the tracks LOL

But in the process I learnt some helpful things: Do not lay on your bed unless you’re planning to go to sleep. This teaches your brain that the function of the bed is for sleep.

Prioritise your time during the day. This way you don’t go to bed thinking about all the things you should have done during the day. If you didn’t get everything done you will have only missed the things that probably could have waited anyway because the urgent stuff is done.

When you lay down, get comfortable, close your eyes and think about nothing. This is not always as easy as it sounds. If this is troublesome for you pick up a “relaxation” or “self hypnosis” recording—the techniques are more-or-less universal because they are the ones that work.

Try to discipline yourself to have a regular bedtime. No, this is not just for kids! I’m 39 years old and I have a bedtime (although my wife teases me about it all the time)! This keeps you on a consistent schedule. It will also help if your meals and other parts of your daily routine are, well, a routine.