Sleep!! Somebody please help me!

[RoDnSuE]

My girlfriend has a book, the joys of machine knitting. I keep it beside the bed at all times. If sex doesn't work to tire me out I read a few pages of this. 5 minutes later and I am nodding off, works EVERY time!

That might do it:yh:
But seriously, I know it sounds strange, but ANY thinking keeps me from dropping off to sleep. I have to try and empty my mind of all thought or I will start thinking of all kinds of theories, devices, or whatever.
The only thing that seems to help sometimes is lots of deep rapid breaths.
I don't know if it's the increase of oxygen or what but it does help sometimes.

 

[Kulhu]

Cannabis will make you sleep like a baby.

 

[RoDnSuE]

You've built up an immunity up to Xanax and Ambian is the problem. I go through this all the time because I cant sleep from back pain. Every month take a full week off, and let your body come down. You're body is obviously toxic if both meds are not knocking you out. It will suck for a few days, but you can get past it. You're not sleeping now, so you have no excuse not to do it.

I know that's true except for the ambian. I don't take it very often. I stopped taking the xanax for about a month and about went nuts. I actually would love to stop taking all meds but some of them are a MUST. Blood pressure and back pain meds for example.

 

[Elektrotechniker]

Bah sleep is over rated. You will get plenty of sleep when your dead.
(then snore).

I actually hear this phrase quite often the last weeks. :thinking:
You can't live without sleep jeez! I sleep 12 hours a day, during summer.

 

[RoDnSuE]

I'll probably get flamed for this. But try cannabis if you have access to it, you don't have to smoke it - you can eat it an hour or two before you go to bed, I've found that it's nice in tea. My friend has trouble sleeping and he uses cannabis to help him sleep.

From personal experience some of the best sleeping I've done was when I went to bed stoned, usually get some pretty decent dreams too.

If you're in the US and in a state with medicial cannabis, go to your doctor and tell him you are having trouble sleeping and that pills and normal methods are not working and ask to be put on medical cannabis. You'll want a strain that is more "indica" than "sativa".

I did the cannabis thing back in high school but I don't really enjoy it as I did back then. I do have some interesting cannabis related memories from HS times though.:evil: I haven't tried any for several years.

No problem from me on cannabis.
I think it's just a big government hypocrisy that alcohol is legal and cannabis isn't.
Just my opinion.:horse:

 

[RoDnSuE]

I worked a graveyard shift job for a while and eventually quit in part because of how it wreaked havoc on my sleep cycle. I'd come home at like 8-9 in the morning with the bright morning sunlight in my face which would really wake me up. Then it would take me like 2 hours of hanging out in the dark to get tired again. Also it was harder to fall asleep in general even when I was tired. Right now it takes anywhere from 5-20 minutes for me to fall asleep at night.

When I tried sleeping during the day it took me hours sometimes to get to sleep and the whole time I'd be tossing and turning getting pissed off thinking about how much time I was wasting trying to sleep when I could be doing something fun or productive. Then I'd finally get to sleep and be woken up like 4 hours later by the neighbors tearing down a tree, running a lawnmower, landscaping crews, garbage trucks, someone opening/shutting the front door loudly and other normal daytime activities. Also it wasn't like waking up in the middle of the night when I can fall back asleep in minutes. I'd wake up and simply not be tired anymore. Then at like midnight when I'd be going to work I'd be so tired that I felt like curling up and sleeping on the floor. Something was just downright unnatural about the whole thing and it felt like I was in the twilight zone and out of synch with the normal world at times. When I needed to do stuff I felt like sleeping and when I needed to sleep I felt like doing stuff.

Moral of the story=Graveyard shifts suck...Don't work them if you can possibly avoid it.

Anyway here are a few helpful hints if you're having trouble sleeping.
-Don't just lay in bed getting aggravated if you don't feel like sleeping. It isn't helpful.
-Avoid sunlight if you're trying to sleep during the day. It basically triggers your body to wake up.
-Have a nice hearty meal a few hours before you plan on sleeping.
-Run the ac to keep the room at a comfortable temperature. Trying to sleep in a 90+ degree room sucks.
-Yes what diachi mentioned works wonders. I won't go any further into the subject.

When I was younger, I actually prefered the GY shift. There was not nearly as many interuptions while working at the test bench.
The AC thing is a problem though...my wife freezes and I burn up. I can sweat in 30 degree weather.
I grew up in a house with NO heating. (except for the kitchen when my Mom would cook) Even in the dead of winter. (bath time was a bitch) I sleep best when the room is freezing and I can cover up with just a sheet or very light blanket.

 

[lasersbee]

Run around the block (or anywhere else that is safe) for an hour or more...
then take a hot shower... then hit the sack...
You will sleep like a baby....
It works for me..............Zzzzz

Jerry

 

[Tech_Junkie]

I've found that it's nice in tea.

THC is not water soluble..

 

[daguin]

I could come over and give you a lecture about Monroe's Motivated Sequences. That usually puts my students to sleep :tired:

Peace,
dave

 

[nikokapo]

I could come over and give you a lecture about Monroe's Motivated Sequences. That usually puts my students to sleep :tired:

Peace,
dave

You do WHAT to your students?

 

[daguin]

Peace,
dave

 

[AUTO XX]

A lot of unique ideas for solving this problem here.
I found reading something that you are interested in but is pretty dry/boring works well. I have the texts from an emergency medical training course, they are full of amazing info but I can only read them for about an hour at a time before tipping off my perch.
(I'm planning on challenging the final in a few months)
There is always another solution... Give the wife a bat :twak:

 

[Tech_Junkie]

Just spank it, and you'll be sleeping in no time.

 

[Eudaimonium]

...
Eudaimonium,
There was a time when I was considered a pretty good electronics tech.
I've been in the bizz for 30+ years, but my skills have waned alot since my accident in 2003. I was doing 2-way and amateur radio repair for the most part. I have designed and built a few odds and ends over the years but it was mostly radio equipment related.
I have a room full of test equipment and parts that is just gathering dust now:cryyy:
If I can ever get my health better, maybe I can use it again.
It did give me a great sense of accomplishment to repair a radio, or even build a project.
Ahhh...maybe someday, if I can get my brains to work again.:undecided:

BTW....
It's amazing how close your diagnosis was, from just my first post.
It sounds like you have an aptitude for being a health care proffesional.

Thanks,
Rod

Look, first of all I want you to start using that equipement again - get new tips for soldering iron, nozzles for hot air and probes for O-scope.

I have a lot of projects to co-develop and have phun along the way!

Boost drivers, high current linears, forementioned timetunnels, correction amp boards for scanner,
Stuff I can't think of right now.

And yes, I am quite familiar with human mind funcions and physiology and I'm quite good at giving educated guesses about somebodys problems and most important - solutions.

 

[millirad]

Never spank your Bologna/Bolonie, you'll go blind! I have trouble sleeping, ever since TJ sent me that "white powder" with my 6mw PHR burner. Instructions said sniff white powder and burn stuff with the pointer. Killed a few gnats but couldn't sleep for 2 days. J/K(Joke for the acronym impaired)

Just spank it, and you'll be sleeping in no time.

 

[Nanolaser]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtEftTzcr6I&feature=av2n