how to get to bed at night?
 

well guys, iv;e been missing a lot of school, simply because I wake up late and go to bed...mad late...I'm just not tired. I've tried going to bed at like 11, just to lie in there for hours and not fall asleep. does anyone know any food or anything? or activity i could do to fall asleep at night? ANYTHING would help me. I heard bananas help that stuff. who knows.

Working out and getting up early works great for me.

Maybe its silly, but when my sleep cycle goes out of whack for too long (during winter break I was up until 3am and usually slept until 1 or 2), I skip a night. I literally just don't sleep. I pull an all nighter, and the next night I'm so tired that it fixes everything. This may not work for some people though, and probably isnt good for you. I've only done it a couple times myself.

Drink milk. Read a book (eye tiredness really makes me sleepy). Eating a large meal will make you sleepy too, although I don't recommend that just before going to sleep; still, it's something to think about.

If all else fails, Nyquill (sp?) is always an option.

"Winners Don't Use Drugs"

I'd have to say spot on. Working out is a great way to fix your rythm. Getting up early in the morning gets that much easier if you work out regularily.

Yeah, exercise is great. Gives your body a better reason to want to rest. Try and commit yourself to sleeping the same hours every night. The couple of hours before bedtime stay out of bright light, do things thatll relax you. Reading the hour before I went to sleep did wonders for me when I had this problem years ago.

Ambient music always helps me when I really can't sleep. Some albums you might want to try:

Dr. Jeffrey Thompson - Ambient Music for Sleep
Hammock - Kenotic
Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees
Robert Fripp and Brian Eno - The Equatorial Stars
Colleen - The Golden Morning Breaks

And for one that bridges the rather wide gap between ambient music and pop:
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand

Music always works, but i've always tried to take the easy way out covering my eyes with a soft pillow so my eyes can't see any light. After a while, I doze right off.

Forcing it unfortunately doesn't work for me either. Try something boring and productive like studying or note making. Forcing that might work and help in both ways. If you do it for hours straight and don't take a break you might be so burned out at the end that you'll plop right asleep. Then again, having the willpower to start something like that is another tough issue to tackle.

I wake up early and try to stay up until I'm ready to go to bed. After a bit of that, I was sleeping from 6pm to 5am.

I use a breathing technique associated with meditation. I found that when I concentrate on steady slow breaths I'm out in minutes.
Streaching helps as well to if you're tense and worried like I have been.

If all eles fails, find a bible and go to psalms. Even when I'm wide awake and trying to study, the words just dissolve my concentration by reading that section.

I actually have another suggestion for falling asleep, but it might need some practice before you get it to work. I can see how it won't work for some people because they are too impatient or easily irritated, but for me it works almost every time.

What I do is that when I can't sleep, I try to relax every part of my body as well as try to eliminate anything that annoys me. The elimination part can be anything from the room being too bright to me having to wash my face because the "sticky" or "fatty" feeling irritates me.

I think a lot of people especially miss the "trying to relax" part. Important! You have to relax EVERY part of your body, including your -----> eyelids! <----- I remember trying to relax never finding out why I didn't fall asleep when suddenly I realized that I wasn't relaxing my eyelids. I was to bsy focusing on my body that I didn't realize that I was actually holding my eylids together too tightly. The secret is to try to get your eyelids to close just right. Sometimes this can be hard to do, but there are always methods, like the one Chaotic mentioned.

Finally, when you've eliminated all the irritation factors and your body is fully relaxed, you have to try to clear your mind of thoughts. Thinking while trying to sleep mostly has the opposite effect on me so I try not to think in words. Instead, I try to combine imagery with sound(I'm sometimes able to "hear" music) in my mind to make my own movie. The importance lies in trying to make concistent imagery so that your mind doesn't wander off into thinking about something else (if you don't control it, you might start thinking about problems and worries instead). It might sound goofy, but it works wonders for me.

Among some of the excellent specifics, I'd make sure to get up earlier in stages, you know. I mean, if you usually wake up at eleven, say, try getting up at ten the next morning, and then nine, and work your way down to where you're going - even on days off.

Fifteen minutes of absolutely furious masturbation tends to "relax the body" pretty well, too.

why lie

Haha, can't believe I said that shit.

Furious? THEN CHAFING WILL KEEP YOU UP =(

No matter whether you work out or fap until exhaustion, you'll feel a burn~

What are you using; your father's work gloves or something?

You said furious though!

FURIOUS!!! :mad:

Trim your fingernails then!

I'd rather watch Star Wars Episodes 1-3 again!

YOU HEAR ME, AV/SIG?! =I

Relax with the direction your comments are taking. You'll end up like the sandpeople you've seen before. (And will be seeing in my av/sig set tomorrow)

I'd have to go with whats been said, exercise. A good workout before bed will get you great sleep.

Reading really does it for me. Also, do you shower right before you go to bed? Because honestly, showers can wake you up... I have the bad habit of showering late at night. Also, you're supposed to avoid caffeine any time after 6pm or so. Melatonin is a natural something (supplement? whatever) that the body produces and can be bought at the store... Take it a coupla hours before bedtime.

The best trick is to just stay up all night. Guaranteed you will fall asleep like a baby the next night. Or have at most four hours of sleep. Sucks but it works.

I usually watch TV in bed without my glasses on for 15-30 minutes. With the lights out and no glasses the eye strain is almost always enough to tire me out. Otherwise I can easily stay awake til dawn most nights if I tried.

That is approximately the same thing I do. While wearing glasses I am more alert and tend to get annoyed with their greasy build ups and they are sticky and agrivating. But sleeping is really hard for me. But straining my eyes will make me sleepy.

Stay up as late as you usually do, then just get up on time. Don't go to sleep or take any energy stimulants, etc during the next day either. Sure, you'll feel exhausted, soulless and probably depressed but then you;ll be able to fall asleep at a regular time.

Most likely your real problem is you're making a choice not to go to school and using a messed up sleep schedule as an excuse.

Working out and Masturbation are probably the best ways I can think of. Also, as said earlier, something boring and/or repetitive. Eventually you'll get tired of it and will start to desire sleep.

I don't often use strategies to fall asleep. Sometimes I find myself going to bed hours before the time I usually do, and if I clear my mind and don't move so much, I'm able to fall asleep quickly. Reading doesn't usually help me.

That's never worked for me. My legs and back start feeling cramped long before sleep ever comes, and I wind up just laying there with closed eyes for an hour. Boring, yet for some reason not sleep-inducing for me.

When I get that urge to whack off in the middle of the night I find it nearly impossible to fall asleep. Even if I wake up at 3 in the morning after an arousing dream, my whole body like perks up and I'm like damnit I need to go jerk off.

I do nightly workouts as well and drink milk around before going to bed, but neither of those actually make me sleepy. I could stay up pretty easily (and I've been getting up with ease these too, even after only 2-3 hours of sleep). If anything makes my eyes a little heavy, it's subtitles; so I avoid watching anime or foreign movies at night (unless I was planning a marathon). Writing is okay, so I can do some late-night coding (which actually makes me more awake) and chatting, etc.

I hate it when I'm trying to get to sleep and I think all deep like: "How do I know when I slip into unconsciousness? Will I be aware..?". Shit like that keeps me up sometime. When I start thinking I think "Not this crap again...".

But fortunately that doesn't happen to me too often; I find exercise helps, like a few people have said here. I've tried to fall asleep with (ambient) music playing in the background, but I get too distracted by it. Silence, I think, is best when trying to fall asleep.

You do close your eyes, right?

I'm serious! When I was a little kid, there was a period in which I couldn't get myself to sleep. I couldn't figure out why, so one night asked my Mom how to fall asleep. She was pretty much answering me in her sleep, and I noticed her eyes were closed. So, I asked if closing your eyes helps you fall asleep, and she said,"yeah". Tried it and it has worked ever since!

Agreed.

Same thing I do, though it doesn't always work. Sometimes after a couple days my sleeping pattern goes back into whack mode. It's good for a short term fix, but for long term I'd say working out and getting up early.

Talk about a bland fucking post, eh?

I agree with this person and everyone else! Winners!

This is what I generally try to do, though it doesn't always work. Personally I find it hard to make it without napping, and the nap ruins the whole operation...


As far as I'm aware, exercise before bed is considered poor "sleep hygiene". It actually stimulates your nervous system.

Make sure you don't use the bed for anything but sleep and sex. If you're a guy, masturbation/sex will definitely help get you to sleep. =)

I always find myself falling asleep come 11pm after a day at work. I suppose exercise would help to send you to sleep as well, but seeing as how I rarely do any exercise I wouldn't know.

I'm rather fortunate in the fact that exercise or especially caffeine don't do jack shit to me before bedtime. Even if immediately before. I don't think I'm caffeine reactive period, considering I'd take some energy drinks before unloading trucks at UPS and the days I'd skip that I wouldn't even notice a difference.

Try excersising before bed. do lots during the day so your body will get tired.

fall asleep
 

Hi,

I guess routine, routine, routine. Try to sleep at the same time, quite and calm music do work if you try not to think too much. Make sure you don't watch TV prior sleep at least 30 minutes, let you mind be peace. Also in research showed that if you have mineral deficiency, it will make your brain restless and body stress, so it is no harm to have it check out.


myeronetwo ;)

It said some where that reading or watching tv will actualy stimulate the brain, causing you to stay awake, soft music helps you dose off but anything else will activate your ears to listen to sounds making your brain active also. (But it works for everyone I know, so it's probably for people who needs absolute silence)
Excersize causes your body to create chemicals to make you feel happy (eventually dose off), but those excersizes needs to make you to sweat at least for it to work. 50 push ups and 50 situps should be enough for most people to break some sweat.

When I can't sleep, it's usually because I'm thinking what I need to do the next day or something I'm worried aobut. So I get a pen and paper and write like a reminder/agenda for myself. If not writing (not typing) a journal entry helps, it doesn't take me long until my hand cramps out and I go on to bed by then.

Hope this helped a bit.

Relax in a tub of hot water. When you start falling asleep in the tub--you're ready.

Change your alarm clock. You CAN get used to the alarm so it becomes nothing more than background noise.

Just drink yourself unconcious and hope you don't get a hangover, that's what I normally do.

Dude, I often think the EXACT same thing. Been having a problem with that lately. I hate it when that happens too, cause then I just get more and more angry as I realize precious minutes are passing by and actually falling asleep becomes impossible. One time this really weird thing happed to me and I swear I was almost able to "be conscious" as I fell asleep. This really strange wave crept up over me and I felt like I was about to drift off into a 4th dimension or die or something. Then I came to and it kinda freaked me out. Anyway, you're not alone man.

Working out would be best solution to this, I think. I've had this knid of problem myself a few times. Try to do something to suck the energy all out. You'll be down in no time. This always work for me. ;)

I usually smoke a bowl and lurk on the internet for a few hours, tires me out epsecially when I just came home from work.

You can use a supplement call Melatonin. You can purchase it at any health store. It helps correct sleeping disorders and is helpful during jet lags. If you don't want to take a supplement you can always soak up some sun cause your body creates Melatonin by it's self. ^_^

Drink warm milk, read a good book, take a long relaxing bath/ shower. Or you could get up early that usually makes me tired at night, especially if I've done some physical activity.

I would agree that working out really helps in getting to sleep and waking up refeshed. Another thing is not eating too much sugar or junk food. That usually causes problems. Nutrition is important in maintaining a constant sleep pattern. Sometimes its hard to avoid however.

DUDE!!! I just tried that and it totally worked.

I was like damn, i can't sleep i gotta give that thing i read online a try. Slept like a log and actually missed class....

But dang dude.... only takes you fifteen minutes??? How furious are you doing it like both hands and both feet at the same time or something? Took me like half an hour to get furious.