What do other insomniacs do?

tinkerbell28

I'm trying baking tonight!

AlexLK

Gosh, I can't believe how productive you all are when you can't sleep. I have recently got better but four years ago I suffered a bit of a "nervous breakdown" for want of a better term and spent many nights awake. What did I do, you ask. My answer: stared at the ceiling in the dark for hours and hours. :embarrassed:

Sneezy

I hate the days (like tonight) where I'm yawning but just cannot drop off (usually a Sunday night when I know I have to be up at 6.30 and I'm only going to have x hours of sleep).

I don't tend to 'do' anything except try and get to sleep - I have a kindle but need to put my light on to read so don't use it after 10.30/11pm as the light is more likely to wake me up properly.

I do use my phone/ipad as the light on this tires my eyes out and on one of those nights anything that helps is useful!

PloddingAlong:P

:mad:Get frustrated that I'm not sleeping!!! Argh!!!

And then promptly fall asleep at 7am just a few mins before everyone gets up!!!:mad:

melanzana

This might sound bizarre...but please bear with me.

I take fizzy multivits in the morning brfore getting out of bed. One night I woke up and couldn't gt back to sleep. It was around 4oc am. I was thirsty, and always having a glass of water by the bed I decided to take my fizzy aswell, which I usually take on waking at normal time 7am and then get up and go.

Well, I was knocked out!

I tried it again on many nights that I was wide awake, and it worked.

I'm talking about the Boots or Aldi fizzy multivits here. They have magnesium which is a sleep aid, but I never knew that, thinking they were for ZING! And energy.

I have said it to some friends, and they all find the same thing. Take em when you wake up in the night and it's zzzzzzzz all the way.

Why don't you try it? If it doesn't work, you haven't lost anything, if it does, it's great.

*zippy*

Pthree wrote: »

.... you have no idea how addictive Nigerian Idol and some guy in a dodgy sweater painting landscapes can be!

The joy of painting! I used to enjoy watching that in the early hours, I find it relaxing watching people crafting so would watch the craft channel too.

Just remembered those dodgy quiz phone in programmes too that were on through the night, I watched far too many of them.

I watch tv or read forums, esp American ones as they are most active then. The last few months if I'm in work the next day I make myself be in bed about 12 and then read until I drop off and I've been sleeping better since, I've just had two weeks off though so got into bad habits again.

sassyblue

Life's stressful for me at the moment so I've been doing some sleepless nights staring at the ceiling. A part of me enjoys being awake when it's so peaceful, but l hate it when l fall into a deep sleep an hour before waking.

I've been reading alot, cuddling the cat or watching TV with subtitles on so as not to wake DH.

NervousHomeowner

Ooh I didn't realise there were other people on here at stupid o'clock too

I stay in bed on my laptop because if I get out of bed then I wake up and don't end up going back to sleep at all. I used to listen to podcasts and watch TV when I was single but can't now because of it waking my OH up (Who is a mardy git after a bad night's sleep!).

After hearing how productive some of you are though, I like the idea of doing something useful at 4AM so maybe I should start doing work when I can't sleep!

~Chameleon~

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dibuzz

Sneezy wrote: »

I hate the days (like tonight) where I'm yawning but just cannot drop off (usually a Sunday night when I know I have to be up at 6.30 and I'm only going to have x hours of sleep).

I don't tend to 'do' anything except try and get to sleep - I have a kindle but need to put my light on to read so don't use it after 10.30/11pm as the light is more likely to wake me up properly.

I do use my phone/ipad as the light on this tires my eyes out and on one of those nights anything that helps is useful!

Thats why I love my Nook, it's the one with the built in light so it's perfect for picking up from the side of the bed without having to move much.