What helps you sleep?

Prinzessilein

The sex idea sounds like the most fun!....Although I live alone so will have to take the 'solo-option'!

I live on the ground floor, and so I keep the window shut over night for safety reasons. This means the room can get rather stuffy, which doesn't help for a restful night.

I find a warm drink helps. Milk is best (other drinks can make you need to get up and go to the loo avernight....milk supposedly doesn't!) I take it about half an hour before I turn in. And a plain biscuit (rich tea or gingernut are my faves!) so that I'm not hungry.

And I also use Johnsons' Baby Bedtime Bathtime range! I have very sensitive skin, and this doesn't irritate me....and the Bedtime range is gently scented with Lavender and actually does relax me! There is a wash, a mousturising milky rub and a more intensive creme.

A chapter or two of a book helps to relax me....or sometimes I'll do a crossword puzzle.

And I try to keep to a set routine - (well, as an Aspie I fixate on my routines!) - and hope my body accepts that the day is over and it's time to sleep!

Finally, if everything fails and I really can't sleep.....I don't even try. The light goes back on, I'll read or watch some stupid TV.

Mupette

I'm another coffee addict, been like it for years, so i could drink lots and not have the effect on me, so i thought, but having so much during the day, not sleeping at night..

But sit me on a sofa, and i could be gone in minutes,

I've just gone through the stress of moving home, and didn't drink so much coffee, without knowing i destressed a little, but when i couldn't sleep, i could not sleep, i could toss and turn desperate to sleep (apparently a bad thing to try to force sleep).

I've forced wake up times, so where i used to wake up about 11am, i get up about 8 or 9, so by 10pm onwards i would feel tired. But if i have anything on my mind, like things to do the next day that keeps me away, so the next step for me will be leave note pad and pen next to bed to write down what i need to do.

I used to be a heavy gamer and you really need a good hours down time before trying to sleep.

The only thing to send me off is snuggled down with a book.

VfM4meplse

4 step plan:

1. Quit the Nytol
2. No caffeine (that includes chocolate and cola drinks) after 3pm
3. Exercise for a minumim of 60 mins, at least 2 hrs before bedtime
4. Invest in a hypnosis CD (and headphones if nec) to be played before bed

Good luck!

ash4becks

my sleeping is terrible always has been since i was a kid, for some silly reason i can get very silly and hyper at night and are always more alert then weird but hey its me lol

when i go in the bath (when i can make sure i can out) radox really helps me wind down , good hour or two of tv and only go to sleep when iam yarning your more likely to go of then

what really has helped is magic amitriptyline is a painkiller aswell but does help to relax you and does the job if i rember to take it lol but my sleep is better and seem to be geting a proper full sleep with out being so stiff in morning ,

but i have to agree sex works the best

BritRael

Breast_Cancer_Survivor wrote: »

Thanks Doom, you too. :A

I swear I sleep better in the winter when it gets dark early & it's so cold you snuggle up under your duvet.

Pesky summer. :rotfl:

Me too. I often think that I should just hibernate during the winter.

A technique I used to use was having this aromatherapy gizmo by the bed. It released nice smells into the room while playing some relaxing sounds: rain, jungle, waves lapping on the shore etc. :cool:

Good luck.

LameWolf

I've yet to find something that really works; that said, I can't stay awake during the day.

I think I have to accept that I'm just naturally nocturnal.

Indie_Kid

You may find with Nytol that it only works for short periods of disturbed sleep.

Adaline

I've always had problems sleeping too. When it's due to bad pain, the only thing that helps is putting a totally natural yet still illegal bit of foliage in a cup of tea: works better than any painkiller I can get legally (I insisted that they put this on my record at the hospital, as part of the campaign to have it legalised). If it's just my mind not switching off, I listen to the World Service on the radio at a low volume, and that often works. I've recently been diagnosed with tinitus, and now have a white noise generator which is on all night, and I've noticed that I'm sleeping much better. I do sympathise: I hate going through the days when I've had no sleep the night before.

Mupette

VfM4meplse wrote: »

4 step plan:

1. Quit the Nytol
2. No caffeine (that includes chocolate and cola drinks) after 3pm
3. Exercise for a minumim of 60 mins, at least 2 hrs before bedtime
4. Invest in a hypnosis CD (and headphones if nec) to be played before bed

Good luck!

I think a lot of us will be unable to do so.

In fact i did 45mins on my wii step a month or so ago, took me a week to recover.

Oldernotwiser

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