Re: Falling asleep
 

It takes me an average of 90 minutes to fall asleep at night. (Some nights it takes up to 6 hours of me laying in bed)

I haven't found anything that works, but I haven't tried super hard. So, please keep the suggestions in the thread coming.

Re: Falling asleep
 

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Also, you should try to be in the room you sleep in only when trying to sleep (ie don't hang out there to play video games, poker, etc). This has helped me when I wasn't sleeping well.

[/ QUOTE ] very interesting.

OP, Tylenol PM.

Re: Falling asleep
 

i'm an insomniac so I basically just stay awake until I crash. Sometimes I lie in bed long enough to fall asleep, most of the time I get sick of thinking and get back up.

It doesn't really matter if I've worked (physically) hard all day or played poker all day or done nothing. I imagine being wired from late night poker sessions is some part of it.

As I write this I've been up since 8am yesterday. I've worked out twice, played like ten hours of poker, tried to sleep for a couple hours, watched a couple movies.

Every few days I sleep for like 12 hours.

I've tried multiple sleep meds, nothing works.

Re: Falling asleep
 

Chaos,

Do you exercise? I find it way, way, way easier to fall asleep when I am exercising regularly and not just sleepy tired but also physically tired.

Anything that's a routine definitely helps. When I'm going to sleep at the same time and reading a book for 30 minutes or so every night right before sleeping, it's very easy to just relax and sleep.

When I'm on a more changing schedule it's much easier to think about doing other stuff and just either lie in bed thinking about stuff or kill time watching TV or surfing the web or whatever instead of just going to sleep.

In general, though, once I decide to go to bed, it's pretty easy for me to fall asleep unless I'm REALLY bothered about something.

Re: Falling asleep
 

As above, a routine helps.

Also: the temperature of your feet makes a difference. If your feet are cold you will have a tough time falling asleep. If you often have cold feet when you go to bed, try wearing socks to bed.

Re: Falling asleep
 

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It takes me an average of 90 minutes to fall asleep at night. (Some nights it takes up to 6 hours of me laying in bed)

I haven't found anything that works, but I haven't tried super hard. So, please keep the suggestions in the thread coming.

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6 hours? That's insane. I try to keep a routine when I can by going to bed at the same time every night, that tends to help.

Re: Falling asleep
 

its 3:30am atm and i gotta get up at 8... trying to read bbv and bbv4life to get some sleep, not helping :<

Re: Falling asleep
 

Sometimes it helps to listen to music, but soon you will go crazy, become reliant, and not be able to sleep without it.

So maybe it doesn't help.

Re: Falling asleep
 

read the most boring book i own.

i fall asleep really easily and it close to never comes to this for me.

Re: Falling asleep
 

pink noise...not porn related.

google pink noise, and put a 30 minute playlist of just pink noise, you will fall asleep before the playlist is over