Having big troubble falling asleep. Tips?
11 years ago
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Hi, and thank you for taking intrest in this.
As of lately have I been struggeling a lot falling asleep. I could look up to the cealing for 4-6 hours before falling asleep. As I'm writing this now, is it nearly 5 AM! (evidence) This is also a recent issue. Don't know why.
Any help or tips? Anything and everything is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
As of lately have I been struggeling a lot falling asleep. I could look up to the cealing for 4-6 hours before falling asleep. As I'm writing this now, is it nearly 5 AM! (evidence) This is also a recent issue. Don't know why.
Any help or tips? Anything and everything is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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Especially if you've experienced it for more than a week, and it's happening on a frequent basis.
What usually causes insomnia? It can be physical and/or psychological.
For me it was high levels of stress and loneliness that started it. I didn't know anyone were I lived, I hated the place I worked and where I lived.
I removed the causes of my stress (got a new job and moved closer to people I knew), and got some sleeping medicine for nights when it was extra bad.
It lasted for roughly a year, but only as I ignored the lesser warning signs a year before.
But while you're waiting for a doctor's appointment I have some minor suggestions.
Look at your nightly routine, and what you do 1 hour before you go to bed.
Ask yourself this.
"What makes you relax?"
"What makes you more alert or stressed?"
"What things do you only do when you're only going to bed?"
What makes me relax? Watching EthosLab on Youtube on Youtube XD
What makes me more alert or stressed? ermn... My aprents? But they're 1 hour by plane, or 10 hours by train across the country. :3
What things do you only do when you're only going to bed? - What exactly do you mean by this? Before I go to bed? When I'm heading to bed? When I'm in my bed, awaiting to fall asleep?
I don't think a doctors appointment is sennecary, as I sleep normal, but falling asleep is the issue. I always sleep 8 hours.
- make sure you are off anything bright (tv, computer or phone) about an hour before your aim bed time, artificial light actually stuffs around with your internal body clock
- try a warm drink, get as comfortable as possible
- linden, or camomile, etc type teas or even a mix of can work.
- if you live with others, go to bed when they do a 'together thing' if they go to bed early
- have a shower or bath before bed
- dont eat fruit especially things like apples before bed. They are actually better at keeping you up than coffee (so a good morning starter :P )
- try music in bed, to help you get to a point where you can start sort of day dreaming until you do go to sleep
- eat dinner at a normal time such as 6pm-7pm
- try to drown out any sounds if its distracting
- do some intense exercise such as running, gardening or something during the afternoon to get yourself tired physically, though not too ridiculously that you crash ^^
- watch a movie before bed
- get into a routine of waking up earlier during the morning like 6am-8am and get up and do stuff
I dont know if any of these will work for you but I thought it would be good to list a couple of ideas to let you have some trial and error.
Hope you're okay and this helps even if a little.
- try a warm drink, get as comfortable as possible - Warm drink? Inacsessable at bed time. :/
- linden, or camomile, etc type teas or even a mix of can work. - Never tried any tea. XD
- if you live with others, go to bed when they do a 'together thing' if they go to bed early. - eeh...No.
- have a shower or bath before bed. - Don't have acsess to a bathtub, and I'm actually not a fan of showering. o.o
- dont eat fruit especially things like apples before bed. They are actually better at keeping you up than coffee (so a good morning starter :P ) - Apples keeps you more awake than cofee? I've never had any cofee, but I call BS on that. I once had 3 apples one morning. I felt no effect, and was dead-tired as I was before I ate them. That was 2 years ago, but still...
- try music in bed, to help you get to a point where you can start sort of day dreaming until you do go to sleep. - That's pretty much wha I'm always doing.
- eat dinner at a normal time such as 6pm-7pm - Dinner is served at school at 3:30 PM. Norwegian culture. :v
- try to drown out any sounds if its distracting - The only ones are my music, but that is an issue, because I find the silence disturbing. I'm an music addict. Seriously...
- do some intense exercise such as running, gardening or something during the afternoon to get yourself tired physically, though not too ridiculously that you crash ^^ - My bike has a flat tire, and snow just began to fall, so I'm not gonna use that anymore while it's slippery outside! My school is on a big hill. If I don't slow down in the several 180 degrees corners, woud I easily reach 35+ MPH without efforts.
- watch a movie before bed. - I'm watching a series. (Legendz.) Does that count?
- get into a routine of waking up earlier during the morning like 6am-8am and get up and do stuff - NOOPE! NO! HELL NO! NOOOOOOOOOO!!
Others suggest that during the day when you are tired of it, and maybe even zoning out a lot or having trouble focusing, pickles are good, because it alerts your senses really well, smell wise and taste wise especially. Its not so much about a caffeine hit being a beta blocker to just not make you feel sleepy, but actually getting your senses going and as suddenly as possible ^^
And lol maybe you'll like tea, but there are a many types you might just have to find one you like :)
Bummer about the other stuff though ^^
and what... you have dinner at 3:30 o-O
Either way, good luck with it, I hope you get better, though as others have suggested, if it persists, perhaps seeing a doctor couldnt hurt.
This is really kind of cool and interesting, I didnt know it was so different elsewhere :)