What do you do when you can't sleep?

I've read many times if you're laying in bed for more than X amount of minutes (don't remember if it was like 15 or 30 minutes) and haven't fallen to sleep yet, then you should get out of bed and do something until you're sleepy. This probably won't help you if you need to wake up early the next day, but you're out of bed trying to get tired until a couple hours before you need to wake up, and then when you do wake up you're tired as fuck, and are like omgwtfbbq.

Anyway, what do you guys do when you can't sleep? I can't sleep right now, and so I'm on here posting about what the fuck I'm doing. Damn sleep/wake cycles. I need an IV of melatonin or some shit. Maybe if someone asked me what super power I could have if I could only have one, I would pick the super power to fall asleep at will, because this is some bullshit. At least I don't have a big test tomorrow, but it has happened before. Man that was some bullshit.

Oh, and any tips on what you do to fall asleep? I've tried those OTC sleeping pills, they don't work, or they take way too fucking long to work. You have to take them pre-emptively and hope for the best. Bullshit!

How ya doing, buddy?

I try to stay active, but it makes me tired, so I take a nap in the afternoon, and then I'm not tired when it's time to go to sleep, so my sleep/wake cycle is all screwed up, and it's a bitch trying to reset your circadian biorhythm or whatever the hell it is. Maybe I'll just make an excuse and say like my pineal gland is all fux0red.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by crabman

I figured out that what keeps me from sleeping is my brain is still thinking about shit I have to do. Or inconsequential shit that doesn't really matter; so i try to think about something really boring, like I'm a sniper in a forest and I'm waiting for someone to come. After like ten minutes i get bored and fall asleep.

Yeah, sort of weird but it works for me.

Make sure you never become a sniper!

But that's funny and sounds cool, I'll have to give it a try. I'll let you know how it works for me, since mine is also a combination I would guess from an overactive brain and not being physically tired. Maybe I can imagine holding up the damn sniper rifle instead of having one of those gun tripods, and it's really heavy and making my arms tired as well.

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