Sleep Help.

[Omnis]

Or another technique that really works is to clean and organize everything in your room if you can't sleep instead of watching tv or Internet.

You're invited to my house the next time you have insomnia.

 

[Pyle_PMG]

Well I tried Noob616's thing, (Read before bed) and got 8 hours of sleep. Big improvement. Would've posted when I woke up but there was a thunderstorm. @hollowxeyes: Yeah, I tend to organize my stuff too sometimes. However after I eventually sleep and wakeup I find I made it worse. And eventually I'll probably try the cucumber thing too. @Jordan: I'll try the melatonin supplement. @Coxis: What is Valium? Thanks for the tips guys. If you have anymore feel free to post them. For now I am going to try a few of these and get back to you.

 

[Coxis]

It's a sedative which has many applications, it sees common use on psychiatric patients. Half a pill is what it took for it to take me down for the entire night, but prolonged use is not recommended, that's why I was only administered 4 halves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valium

Used in the treatment of severe anxiety disorders, as a hypnotic in the short-term management of insomnia, as a sedative and premedicant, as an anticonvulsant, and in the management of alcohol withdrawal syndrome.

 

[Omnis]

8pm is too late to be doing exercise. You need to be doing in the day time.

 

[Crazed_Coupe]

I wouldn't suggest any kind of medication although it would more than likely help you out, it's not good for you at all. Try to be active throughout the day and when it comes time to sleep try and think of something that won't keep you up worried, scared, frightened, etc..

 

[Luminis]

I'd recommend working out as well - if you do it properly. Don't do it during the evening, just before going to bed, you'll just get your body more active than it should. Just do it once you get home from school/work and are done with homework/housekeeping and so on.
A nice, exhausting workout that's finished at 5pm or something should work wonders, as long as it's a proper workout. 2km on a bike is barely more than a warm up... Even if you're in everything but a good shape.

The most simple thing would be to do a crapload of push ups, to the point where you can't lift yourself of the ground anymore, rest for ~15 minutes, repeat it two, maybe three more times. I suspect you're not working out, so this should be more than enough to power you out

Working out a bit on a daily basis will also have a few other nice side effects, aside from sleeping well. Much recommended, it did help me when I had trouble getting to sleep 👍

Also, there's always the Charlie Harper method - and no, I'm not thinking of booze here *cough*

 

[DG_Silva]

I had a problem like this 2 years ago. Solution? my dad (a doctor) gave me half a pill of valium (I know ) for 4 consecutive nights. After that I got used to sleeping my 6 to 8 hours. Haven't had any trouble sleeping ever since.

You're a wuss , my other half is prescribed 3 a day, and two Temazepam a day, and sometimes still doesn't sleep!

 

[Coxis]

You're a wuss , my other half is prescribed 3 a day, and two Temazepam a day, and sometimes still doesn't sleep!

Hehe, I don't know, all I know is that he was being very unusual about it, he's usually like "Go grab x from the medicine cabinet and take x every x time" for regular stuff like colds, but at that time (I was living with my parents for the summer of 2008) he would go take the pill from an unknown location, cut it in half himself and then hand it over to me. That isn't like himself.

Still, I'm glad it worked. I haven't had any trouble since.

 

[Sage]

Thanks for recommending Flux there, Sage, I'm definitely going to look into that.

👍 It's a little jarring the first week or two that you use it ("Everything's so yellow!"), but stick with it and eventually you don't notice it at all - at least until you reach for your smartphone and are blasted by the blue screen.

I've seen the Sleep Cycle iOS app before, but was turned off by the reviews that claimed it fabricated the graphs (recording a cycle even when left on a table overnight, for example). Have you tested it?

The developer has a FAQ answer to that charge. Even before I read it that's what I suspected - that it's just showing unnormalized data. I wouldn't mind giving it a whirl though, but I've seen a lot of reviews saying that they definitely get a flatline when they place it on a table.

 

[Submerged]

Like Sage, I have the Flux program. Yeah, its well weird when the program changes the colour to a warmer tone for the sunset! Sometimes it tend to happen a little bit too fast, especially if you live quite far north (night-time at 9-10pm) as its quite blue, then starts to get slightly warmer, then all of a sudden it totally changes to the warmer setting.

It did help to make your eyes not so alert and did make sleeping an easier thing to do. Plus, when you see the colour change, it triggers the sleep action as in: "oh crap, is that the time?! Time for bed!!". Job done.

... and smartphones do need that program when you are using it at night....

 

[Joel]

Flux is awesome, I find that if I'm forever aloneing and on the computer all night, I feel tired around 1AM most nights now with Flux installed, when it used to take until 3 or 4AM until I was truly tired.

 

[terminator363]

forever aloneing

I agree with you there buddy.

 

[Coxis]

forever aloneing

Best verb ever.

 

[Moot]

I read a bit about sleep recently, about one aspect in particular, light. It's terrible for the brain in the evening, and obviously unnatural. The worst light is from computer screens or Tv's then other household lights. The brain needs darkness to settle into the right pattern for healthy sleep. So try phasing it out. As an experiment you could try no lighting at all once it get's to dusk outside.
There is a theory that many ills of modern civilisation are down to the simple fact of us illuminating things all the time and it effecting our mind and health. Interestingly there are still cultures in some countries that just let it get dark when the sun goes down, they have homes and electricity so they have the choice, but they don't use it. They don't just shut down, they still talk with friends and family, eat and drink, but in darkness of very tiny light (candle strength). Many of us today have developed an obsession of living our lives in brightness.
The reports I read suggested too much night time light actually changes the chemistry of the brain in children and has a permanent effect for the rest of their lives, it is suggested to be a cause of mental illnesses including depression.
As mentioned in previous posts of changing from cold to warm lighting, this is very important too. blue light triggers active alert signals in the brain, it puts us on wake up for mornings i guess, or just general daytime.
Blue light can be used as a way of waking you up in the morning.

 

[terminator363]

I just got f.lux, I think it's really cool, but do you guys recommend the fast transition or slow? How does it work exactly?

 

[Sage]

Slow, definitely. Fast is noticeable. Slow happens over the course of 1 hour and so you don’t notice it at all.

 

[terminator363]

Slow, definitely. Fast is noticeable. Slow happens over the course of 1 hour and so you don’t notice it at all.

Oh, ok sweet!

 

[Submerged]

Ah, I need to change that setting then, as I have it on the fast setting and would get quite confused! haha.

 

[Pyle_PMG]

I found the solution! And it works great. I just shut my phone, tv, computer, and everything except my alarm clock off then sleep on the otherside of the bed so I'm not tempted to reach for my phone or anything if I wake up. The only downside to doing this is that I end up with 15 missed alerts on my phone. But I can live that.