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    Infested Cats's Avatar Mike Victory
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    Suggestions on how to get a better nights sleep? I'm just going to bed now... around 4AM... And dont suggest medication.

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    Exercise.

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    Depends what you're suffering from. I could suggest a better matress, but if you're not uncomfortable, it won't do much good. I'm usually coming home around 4 am, so turning in before 6 is still early for me. But, then again, I'm an insomniac.

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    Sex. Tried and tested.
    Sometimes I even nod off during it.

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    hmmm, I'm having trouble sleeping lately too. If you can get yourself to calm down and don't be nervous, selfhypnosis works great.

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    Originally posted by Infested Cats@12 July 2003 - 02:43
    Suggestions on how to get a better nights sleep? I'm just going to bed now... around 4AM... And dont suggest medication.
    If you figure out anything let me know Infested Cats let me know
    I have the same problem.

    I get about 3-4 hours sleep a night
    I was working 60 hours a week plus trying to get a business of the ground.

    Now I am layed off from the job....still cant sleep


    Peace brotherdoobie

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    Originally posted by Infested Cats@12 July 2003 - 07:43
    And dont suggest medication.
    Does that include all types of medication?

    Like...Marijuana

    Helps me sleep like a baby

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    i stayed up for 26 hours once it was odd because i didn&#39;t feel tired - depression you see

    lots of strenuous exercise and comfort food, like ice-cream did the job
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    On average you need 15 hours Wake-Time aday, so let&#39;s say you rise at 10am - on an average day - your energy usage will cause you to tire down sufficiently till arround 1am - 2am. However, if for the whole day your eating snacks and drinking coffee/tea and not excersicing this adds another variable to the thing.

    Try the following:

    1) After 8pm don&#39;t drink fizzy, and take small ammounts of food.
    2) Before sleeping, if eating, have cereal or a glass of milk. something soft.
    3) Make sure your mind has been giving AT LEAST 30 minutes to unwind after using your pc, don&#39;t just jump into bed after using the internet, it leaves your mind hanging on what it&#39;s last done thus causes sleeping problems.
    4) Where possible take a little walk down the street (perhaps walk dogs to the park for the toilet, if you have them) or have a bath and or read afterwards, this uses energy and the latter sets a new slow-pace for your mind, causing it to be ready to sleep.

    Now you have to be realisitc, if like most teenagers/students in the summer and you wake at 1pm, using the sleep equation of wake-time you won&#39;t really be properly tired until 4-5am (but likely later if been lazying arround, stuffing face with junk).

    Now if you desperatley want to fix this sleep solution do what I suggested in my 4 steps, but also do this. Wake up arround 9am everyday for a week. DONT go back to sleep and aim to go to bed arround 1am. This stretches your limits and builds up a slight ammount of sleep-tollerance, but also after a week (one day wont correct anything) your body should be accepting its new internal-clock for sleep paterns. You see once you have a 4am sleep configured in your body, then if used to it your body will give you a second wind arround 10pm - 1am causing it very hard to "unwind" so do the four steps of unwinding before sleep and for a week torture yourself with an early rise and I can almost gaurantee you that the problem will go. However if it doesn&#39;t go to the Dr and explain this to them, as otherwise it&#39;s quite likely you have something such as a chemical unbalance in your brain (a form of depression) which is treatable (symptomatically) but generaly not cureable, but also you will be prescribed roughly 7-14 days of sleeping pills, more than likely Zolpidem Tartrate 10mg which will do the same thing but easier (the waking at good times etc) for you.

    I hope that rather long but breif guide will help, good luck.

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    c your Doctor.. and u could try sum herbal stuff... my crazy girlfriend swears by it...

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