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Who suffers from it regularly? Occasionally?

What helps you get to sleep? Deal with the sleep deprivation?


My sleeping pills aren't helping me sleep. So I'm semi-coherantly up and posting. I hardly ever take sleeping pills, but the need for sleep overcame my aversion to pills.

Suffering from it right now.

What do I do? Nothing. All the pills in the world don't help me. My body's completely resistant to it all at this point.

I just stare at the ceiling....

Me! :)

I usually surf the internet or talk to people on aim till I get tired enough that I can fall asleep. That's usually around 1 or 2 ish at the latest. Oddly enough I can always get up at 8 the next day.

Sleeping pills make me go insane, I'm one of those few that suffer from hallucinations on them.

Marijuana will help me go to sleep, go figure. I don't do that anymore though.

But a nice mixed drink helps me a lot!

I take ambien pretty much every night. I have to be up in six hours so I should really take it now...

The problem really kicks in after the first night of no sleeping. After about 30 hours I develop this bizarre aversion to sleep, almost a phobia... I'm afraid to go to sleep. I don't know why. Possibly because I've already started going crazy.

Okay, no, I'm really going to bed now. Really. Here I go.

...

Dammit.

I'd like to, but my ipod is acting up.

u dont know the meaning of the word... welcome 2 my world... i stayed up 48 hrs once... and once i was up for 56... long story... lol

I've tried every drug there is for sleep, but drugs in general are short-term solution. Anything in the benzodiazepine family is good in a pinch. Ambien made me delusional one of the few times I took it - wouldn't do that again.

Nowadays I listen to old recordings of myself improvising baroque guitar. Nothing puts me to sleep faster when I'm having trouble. I'd recommend doing this (substitute your preferred type of music, of course). Just so long as there's no definite song structure - that's the key.

I've had insomnia for as long as I can remember - probably my entire life.

I often worry about things, and get so caught up in worrying its a shock to realise three hours have passed and that I should be asleep. Which screws my sleep patterns up royally, which makes it more difficult to sleep in turn. Then I start worrying about the fact that I'm not able to sleep. I guess that counts as insomnia.

I used to have big problems with my insomnia.
But now I just go to bed and sleep when i get tired, even if that takes forever.
I was once awake for 3 days and 3 nights straight.
It really helps to work night shifts and have a flexible schedule.

And do not think of that time as "the time I should be asleep", but instead as time to spend as any other.

I hear that! I go through periods of life where I just can't shut my brain up and I'll lie there wide awake all night. Late last year the only sleep I got was because of sheer exhaustion from not sleeping the night or two before. Here are some things that help me. Hopefully they work for you too.

1- NEVER use a computer soon before going to bed
2- Exercise during the day
3- Wake up at the same time every day
4- Avoid listening to music just after getting up, it comes back and haunts you that night
5- Before going to bed or in bed, write. Get down all the stuff racing around in your head, more than once if neccessary. This is the only way i've found to stop otherwise seemingly indestructable thought trains.

P.S. Pills have no effect on me either :(

Who suffers from it regularly? Occasionally?

What helps you get to sleep? Deal with the sleep deprivation?


My sleeping pills aren't helping me sleep. So I'm semi-coherantly up and posting. I hardly ever take sleeping pills, but the need for sleep overcame my aversion to pills.

I suffer from it most nights, what I do is not go to bed until can't keep my eyes open, normaly around the 1:00-1:30 mark.

If I'm really suffering I'll scrounge up some diazipan from somewhere.

Sleep? Is that when I close my eyes, and time speeds up to five hours later? :(.

I'm serious. I only get about five or six hours of sleep each night. It's become a routine for me.

Exercise, waking up at the same time every day, preferably early, going to bed at the same time, not watching TV or the computer soon before bed and eating lettuce.

I, thankfully, do not suffer from insomnia, but my brother does and he says is just horrible. He gets sick quite often and never rests as he should during the day. Pills don't do anything. I guess he's screwed.