HollyMarie

Counting Sheep

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I guess it's the new surroundings, but I'm having the worst insomnia. 

What do you guys do? Count sheep? Drink tea? Go for a run?

 Feel free to send PMs or reply in the thread. 

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6 hours ago, HollyMarie said:

I guess it's the new surroundings, but I'm having the worst insomnia. 

What do you guys do? Count sheep? Drink tea? Go for a run?

 Feel free to send PMs or reply in the thread. 

    Wish I logged on 6 hrs ago, was wide awake myself. We could have counted sheep.

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I have the same issue nightly. Tried a otc sleeping pill last night.   That didn't work either.  

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Ooooh oohh... ME ME!!!  Call on me!!  I got answers!!!

I have a serious sleep issue due to a medical condition.  A few years back I went about 9 months without more than an hour to 90 minutes of sleep a day.  With all that time awake, I was able to learn more about sleep issues than most doctors since I had nothing else to do...

First off.  Melatonin is great, if out of the hundred or so reasons you can't sleep is lack of melatonin.   If you take melatonin and don't need it, what happens is your body stops making its own.  Meaning a really sucky withdraw if you ever stop, it takes about a week for your brain to start making it's own again.

Valerian root works well for most people to get to sleep, but smells like stinky feet.

Getting to sleep and staying asleep are two very different issues, and need to be treated differently.

Here's the best help I've seen for people who have issues sleeping.  This woman is a psychiatrist who has severe sleep issues herself, so she decided to specialize in people with sleep issues.  This video is pretty long, but outlines several useful techniques.  The sleep compression she talks about, it does suck to implement, but it really works if your insomnia is ongoing.  One fun tip she points out:  Your bed should only be even seen by you if you are sleeping or fooling around.  Otherwise your brain gets mixed signals... Basically those of you that stay in hotels, spend more time during the day at the pool when not having a call!

 

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Jerking off to porn? Wait! That keeps me up.

I am lucky in that I can pretty much sleep anywhere, anytime. But, think that is due to I need some white noise, for lack of a better term. Plane engines: can fall right asleep on planes. At home, I tend to put on a podcast on the phone. Sound from the TV. Lately, documentaries on YouTube: start it up and asleep minutes later. But also keep a pretty regular schedule re: when I go to bed and wake (pretty rare for late nights for me).

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Benadryl.  50mg 1/2 hour before bed.

If you wake in the middle of the night, repeat.

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Meditation and breathing techniques are great for getting to sleep. It helps take the focus off of the "Santa List" you got running in your head so you can relax and crash. I know that sometimes, a nice bath with lavendar epsom salt can soothe you and make you sleepy as well. Drinking chamomile tea is also another thing, and to me sets the mood for sleepy time.

I woke up this morning at 6:30, tried to go back to sleep and my neighbor started blaring his music a little before 7. Yeah...I'm up! Thank God for coffee, or my neighbor would be AWOL! :D

xoxo,

Samantha Sheppard

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2 hours ago, FuriousWeasel said:

Ooooh oohh... ME ME!!!  Call on me!!  I got answers!!!

I have a serious sleep issue due to a medical condition.  A few years back I went about 9 months without more than an hour to 90 minutes of sleep a day.  With all that time awake, I was able to learn more about sleep issues than most doctors since I had nothing else to do...

First off.  Melatonin is great, if out of the hundred or so reasons you can't sleep is lack of melatonin.   If you take melatonin and don't need it, what happens is your body stops making its own.  Meaning a really sucky withdraw if you ever stop, it takes about a week for your brain to start making it's own again.

Valerian root works well for most people to get to sleep, but smells like stinky feet.

Getting to sleep and staying asleep are two very different issues, and need to be treated differently.

Here's the best help I've seen for people who have issues sleeping.  This woman is a psychiatrist who has severe sleep issues herself, so she decided to specialize in people with sleep issues.  This video is pretty long, but outlines several useful techniques.  The sleep compression she talks about, it does suck to implement, but it really works if your insomnia is ongoing.  One fun tip she points out:  Your bed should only be even seen by you if you are sleeping or fooling around.  Otherwise your brain gets mixed signals... Basically those of you that stay in hotels, spend more time during the day at the pool when not having a call!

 

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Thank you, I will watch that video today. I have trouble getting to sleep and staying asleep. I tried sleeping pills and melatonin, but neither worked for me. I always wake up a few hours later. 

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1 hour ago, NoCoGeezer said:

Jerking off to porn? Wait! That keeps me up.

I am lucky in that I can pretty much sleep anywhere, anytime. But, think that is due to I need some white noise, for lack of a better term. Plane engines: can fall right asleep on planes. At home, I tend to put on a podcast on the phone. Sound from the TV. Lately, documentaries on YouTube: start it up and asleep minutes later. But also keep a pretty regular schedule re: when I go to bed and wake (pretty rare for late nights for me).

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Lol, that makes me wide awake. 

I can't watch documentaries or netflix I'll end up staying up all night. 

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4 hours ago, Yorick said:

Benadryl.  50mg 1/2 hour before bed.

If you wake in the middle of the night, repeat.

Benadryl is a problem for most:  While you're unconscious, you're really not resting, so you don't wake up as refreshed as you should.  And for a lot of folks, coming off benadryl is equivalent to drinking a couple cups of coffee in that you're wired.

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3 hours ago, SultryKitten said:

Meditation and breathing techniques are great for getting to sleep. It helps take the focus off of the "Santa List" you got running in your head so you can relax and crash. I know that sometimes, a nice bath with lavendar epsom salt can soothe you and make you sleepy as well. Drinking chamomile tea is also another thing, and to me sets the mood for sleepy time.

I woke up this morning at 6:30, tried to go back to sleep and my neighbor started blaring his music a little before 7. Yeah...I'm up! Thank God for coffee, or my neighbor would be AWOL! :D

xoxo,

Samantha Sheppard

Meditation and breathing work well for most..  If you don't know how to meditate, a good sleep meditation is as you breath in and out, simply count.  In gives you a "One", out "Two"... "Three... Four".  Repeat up to 10 then start over.  If your brain wanders, lets say when you get to 7, simply start over at 1.  It will focus your brain on being quiet if you keep restarting until your background thoughts drop off to nothing, then you'll usually fall asleep.

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A yoga technique I learned 50+ years ago:

  • Breath in, slowly expanding your belly not your chest, for a count
  • Hold for that count with your diaphragm, not your throat. 
  • Breath out slowly, from the belly up, for the count
  • Hold for the count
  • - repeat -

Start the count small (say 5) and over time you'll be able to increase it.  Pre-bypass I could limit myself to 1 breath/minute.  You have to focus on each breath, which helps shut down the ant farm.

 

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I'm trying these organic solutions. Right now I'm brewing the Snooze tincture. You can make teas too...

https://www.bulkherbstore.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=sleep

doTerra oils has a product called Serenity available in oils or gel caps. One of the other ladies I know reorders it monthly. Edens Garden supplies many blends as well.

https://www.edensgarden.com/

Exercise, diet is always good for what ails you as well. 

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Make yourself get up early and stay really busy during the day.  

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Peanut butter and jelly sandwich. :D Sounds dumb but works great for me. What do ya got to loose. :rolleyes:

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A lot of it is the cognitive behavior therapy.  A way to train your brain "I see my bed/eat my PBJ/rub one off/do some ritual" is a trigger that it's time to sleep.  Once you get your brain to rewire itself that way, you'll have a much easier time.  Works for middle of the night wakeups too.  If you find yourself awake, you reset.  I do it by getting up, going downstairs, usually walk outside for a couple minutes, then roll through my go to bed routine again by going back to the bedroom, looking at the bed, thinking it's time to go to bed, then crawl in and am usually out again quickly.

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6 minutes ago, FuriousWeasel said:

A lot of it is the cognitive behavior therapy.  A way to train your brain "I see my bed/eat my PBJ/rub one off/do some ritual" is a trigger that it's time to sleep.  Once you get your brain to rewire itself that way, you'll have a much easier time.  Works for middle of the night wakeups too.  If you find yourself awake, you reset.  I do it by getting up, going downstairs, usually walk outside for a couple minutes, then roll through my go to bed routine again by going back to the bedroom, looking at the bed, thinking it's time to go to bed, then crawl in and am usually out again quickly.

Jeez, I was hopin we evolved past Pavlov's Dog. That being said, there are certain rituals that when I awake I must adhere to or not start my day. Coffee only being one of them.

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3 hours ago, Chrissy said:

Whiskey: )

A woman after my own heart 

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9 hours ago, SultryKitten said:

Meditation and breathing techniques are great for getting to sleep. It helps take the focus off of the "Santa List" you got running in your head so you can relax and crash. I know that sometimes, a nice bath with lavendar epsom salt can soothe you and make you sleepy as well. Drinking chamomile tea is also another thing, and to me sets the mood for sleepy time.

I woke up this morning at 6:30, tried to go back to sleep and my neighbor started blaring his music a little before 7. Yeah...I'm up! Thank God for coffee, or my neighbor would be AWOL! :D

xoxo,

Samantha Sheppard

I thought this was for when you couldn't get a woody? :D

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9 minutes ago, FuriousWeasel said:

A lot of it is the cognitive behavior therapy.  A way to train your brain "I see my bed/eat my PBJ/rub one off/do some ritual" is a trigger that it's time to sleep.  Once you get your brain to rewire itself that way, you'll have a much easier time.  Works for middle of the night wakeups too.  If you find yourself awake, you reset.  I do it by getting up, going downstairs, usually walk outside for a couple minutes, then roll through my go to bed routine again by going back to the bedroom, looking at the bed, thinking it's time to go to bed, then crawl in and am usually out again quickly.

Geeze....

When I wake up in the middle of the night, I call a hot provider over, give her 3 or 4 orgasms to my one, kiss her goodbye, crawl back into bed, and am back asleep in minutes.

Works every time!

 

 

Though, it might just be a recurring dream...

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12 minutes ago, FuriousWeasel said:

A lot of it is the cognitive behavior therapy.  A way to train your brain "I see my bed/eat my PBJ/rub one off/do some ritual" is a trigger that it's time to sleep.  Once you get your brain to rewire itself that way, you'll have a much easier time.  Works for middle of the night wakeups too.  If you find yourself awake, you reset.  I do it by getting up, going downstairs, usually walk outside for a couple minutes, then roll through my go to bed routine again by going back to the bedroom, looking at the bed, thinking it's time to go to bed, then crawl in and am usually out again quickly.

You're so right. I need to get back on my night routine. 

A glass of whiskey and a book. Then bed. 

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2 hours ago, Yorick said:

Geeze....

When I wake up in the middle of the night, I call a hot provider over, give her 3 or 4 orgasms to my one, kiss her goodbye, crawl back into bed, and am back asleep in minutes.

Works every time!

 

 

Though, it might just be a recurring dream...

Kiss her goodbye?  Pfft... go to all that trouble, I'd expect breakfast!

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2 hours ago, Yorick said:

Geeze....

When I wake up in the middle of the night, I call a hot provider over, give her 3 or 4 orgasms to my one, kiss her goodbye, crawl back into bed, and am back asleep in minutes.

Works every time!

 

 

Though, it might just be a recurring dream...

Geez, I would have to drag my body back to the car after 4 or fall asleep in the parking lot. 
I hope that kiss comes with a shot of espresso. 

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6 minutes ago, FuriousWeasel said:

Kiss her goodbye?  Pfft... go to all that trouble, I'd expect breakfast!

Right?! lol, do you guys have 24/hr diners here? In my old town, we would go to Waffle House and get hash browns and eggs. 

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1 hour ago, HollyMarie said:

Right?! lol, do you guys have 24/hr diners here? In my old town, we would go to Waffle House and get hash browns and eggs. 

Oh man, I love Waffle House.  Not many in Denver though, but down in the Springs there's 3.  The one on Austin Bluffs and Academy is the best...

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3 hours ago, HollyMarie said:

You're so right. I need to get back on my night routine. 

A glass of whiskey and a book. Then bed. 

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. 

Gauranteed to put you to sleep in ten pages or less. 

Cap it off with a little Eagle Rare or Knob Creek if you've any doubts.

 

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several things I have learned over the years esp with me travelling and a lot of jet lag either way

1. if having trouble falling asleep don't exercise before bed it just turns on adrenaline

2 a shot of alcohol will help

3.  do not do anything stimulating

if wake up and and can't fall back asleep within 30 minutes.  get up and out of the bedroom.  the bedroom should only be used for sleeping and other things we all know about on this site.  go to a dimly lit room and read nothing more stimulating than your heater repair manual.  no tv no cards or anything else that would stimulate your body or brain.

being from wyoming I quit counting sheep as I found some of them beautiful and was wondering if they were available (lol)

good luck.  if none of that works I understand that cognitive therapy for sleep disorders is highly recommended.

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On 8/2/2017 at 9:20 AM, SultryKitten said:

Meditation and breathing techniques are great for getting to sleep. It helps take the focus off of the "Santa List" you got running in your head so you can relax and crash. I know that sometimes, a nice bath with lavendar epsom salt can soothe you and make you sleepy as well. Drinking chamomile tea is also another thing, and to me sets the mood for sleepy time.

I woke up this morning at 6:30, tried to go back to sleep and my neighbor started blaring his music a little before 7. Yeah...I'm up! Thank God for coffee, or my neighbor would be AWOL! :D

xoxo,

Samantha Sheppard

I wanted to strangle him a time or two lol!!

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