What do you do when you can't sleep?

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Posted: 5/29/2002 12:46:40 AM EDT

I'm logged in at 1:30 am because my dead tired ass can't sleep. I'm too excited about getting to the BRC. I'm supposed to be flying out of town at 7am, which with all the new airline regs, means I have to get up at 4. That leaves me with just two hours to sleep... that'll just piss me off, so I'm staying up.

How do you guys handle insomnia?

Posted: 5/29/2002 1:04:28 AM EDT

[#1]

Depends... I am usually sitting here like you are or sitting here reformatting the hard drive or trying something with the computer that will require me to reformat later (oops).

Other times I am cleaning guns or whatever I can think of. I sleep a lot more now than I used to so it isn't as much of a problem (I spent about 2 years sleeping no more, and very often less, than 3 hours a night).

Posted: 5/29/2002 1:13:33 AM EDT

[#2]

Some of us just work all night.

Er, take that back. Some of us are [b]at[/b] work all night.

Posted: 5/29/2002 1:21:14 AM EDT

[#3]

I sleep with the radio turned on just enough to hear it. The radio seems to help me relax and take my mind off things I have to do the next day. I have never been a deep sleeper since Nam.

Posted: 5/29/2002 1:26:45 AM EDT

[#4]

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...I have never been a deep sleeper since Nam.

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What shitty sleep that must've been! I can't imagine trying to sleep in a combat zone.

Posted: 5/29/2002 2:17:30 AM EDT

[#5]

I reload.

Posted: 5/29/2002 2:50:02 AM EDT

[#6]

On warm nights I'll take the motorcycle for a ride, on cool nights I'll take the car.

There is nothing like driving at night, few people on the road, and the world has a whole different personality.

Posted: 5/29/2002 2:53:20 AM EDT

[#7]

I used to battle insomnia a lot, and many times there just wasn't anything that seemed to work. I eventually found though that running a fan in your bedroom really can help. Not a ceiling fan, but just a small room fan. That drone that it makes is pretty good.

Mike

Posted: 5/29/2002 4:37:32 AM EDT

[#8]

I like the "horizontal bop". I usually just roll over and fall asleep. Works every time.

Posted: 5/29/2002 5:49:35 AM EDT

[#9]

I count blondes. [:D]

Posted: 5/29/2002 6:25:27 AM EDT

[#10]

[b]Benadryl[/b]

Posted: 5/29/2002 8:00:56 AM EDT

[#11]

I usually log on here. [:D]

Posted: 5/29/2002 8:08:23 AM EDT

[#12]

I am an insomniac, can't ever fall asleep and
wake up at the slightest noise.
It's at least 3-4:00AM before I drift off.
To aid this, I put on the most boring tv show or documentary I can find, it helps.

Or, I'll just not go to sleep at all to burn myself out, then I'll sleep fine the next night.

Posted: 5/29/2002 8:10:35 AM EDT

[#13]

Check in here; read gun magazines; watch TV.

Posted: 5/29/2002 8:13:41 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
[b]Benadryl[/b]

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[b]+[/b] beer

[beer] & surf the web until sleepy

Posted: 5/29/2002 2:39:25 PM EDT

[#15]

I've been having trouble sleeping too. Mostly due to mild depression and a sense of not accompishing anything.

What help me are Fans. I also like the sound of rain as it pounds on the roof. There is something serene about that.-especially metal roofs like on sheds and car ports.

On really bad nights/mornings i will get out of bed and do push-ups and flutter kicks, then try to stay awake.

Fantasizing about having sex with a beautiful women helps too. my body will find a way to betray me by having me fall alseep before the next step[:)]

Unfortuanely during the day there are sunbeams. A good sunbeam will put you out in no time!!!

lib

Posted: 5/29/2002 4:25:02 PM EDT

[#16]

Sometimes I just hit the crack pipe.

Posted: 5/29/2002 4:32:55 PM EDT

[#17]

Sex, and if that doesn't work, Nyquil. I use a half dose of Nyquil.

Posted: 5/29/2002 4:58:42 PM EDT

[#18]

Lay down, close your eyes and then pretend you can see through your eyelids. Look around the room slowly from behind closed eyes through your lids.

I have terrible insomnia sometimes (2 hours a night for weeks on end) and I refuse to be medicated for it. My whole family is the same way. I don't think my father EVER sleeps.

My doctor suggested the above method. It works if you try to do it for 5 minutes or so. Next thing you know- its morning.

Posted: 5/29/2002 5:27:50 PM EDT

[#19]

If you lie awake for more then 20 minutes in one spot your mind will associate your surroundings with sleeplessness.

I will surf or watch late night TV for a bit, too disassociate.

I will try to sleep on the the couch too in different surroundings; this may be helpful when I find a good chick to marry.[:D]

Posted: 5/29/2002 6:11:42 PM EDT

[#20]

If I can't sleep, I go home and do something productive! [:D]

Posted: 5/29/2002 6:17:42 PM EDT

[#21]

If I can't sleep. I drink a glass of wine. Pop in a porn tape. Well you know the rest.....[;)] I am single after all.

Posted: 5/29/2002 10:54:00 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
I'm logged in at 1:30 am because my dead tired ass can't sleep. I'm too excited about getting to the BRC. I'm supposed to be flying out of town at 7am, which with all the new airline regs, means I have to get up at 4. That leaves me with just two hours to sleep... that'll just piss me off, so I'm staying up.

How do you guys handle insomnia?

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Obsess at how handsome my hubby looks and then, do some face-playing on the man.

Posted: 5/29/2002 10:59:50 PM EDT

[#23]

i get on the net. then type away the day

Posted: 5/29/2002 11:35:00 PM EDT

[#24]

One or two .25mg Halcion tabs always work.

Posted: 5/30/2002 7:53:55 PM EDT

[#25]

Im here. Aren't I?

Posted: 5/30/2002 8:02:24 PM EDT

[#26]

The same thing you are doing.

Posted: 5/30/2002 8:06:18 PM EDT

[#27]

M E L A T O N I N

Posted: 5/30/2002 10:17:25 PM EDT

[#28]

I'm too excited about getting to the BRC

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[b]UNFORTUNATELY[/b] I won't be having that problem. [:(]

Sounds like me the night before a hunt - I can't sleep for shit. Like others, I try "spanking willy". As for FatMan's "horizontal bop", if he's talking about a "true" bop, then he must have a very understanding woman. I can just see my wife's reaction - 0100 - night before a hunt - I wake my wife - "honey, I can't sleep - can you just slip your panties off and...".

My wife - "SHUT UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE" [BD]

Reading seems to help at times.

tatjana's idea sounds good - maybe give it a whirl.

Posted: 5/30/2002 10:26:10 PM EDT

[#29]

Watch TV or drink beer! ;)

Posted: 5/30/2002 10:32:30 PM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:

Obsess at how handsome my hubby looks and then, do some face-playing on the man.

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[>:/]

Posted: 5/30/2002 10:32:39 PM EDT

[#31]

... Who has time to sleep?

... You'll get plenty of sleep when you die!

... I'm serious, I sleep 4 hours a day Monday through Thursday nights. Conditioning and a mid-day 15 minute power nap is the answer.

Posted: 5/31/2002 2:16:38 AM EDT

[#32]

well, not being able to sleep in this miserable heat (and summer ain't here yet!) [rolleyes] I found myself here at 04:00 (O'darkthirty) realizing how pathetic my life is... lol [;)]

Posted: 5/31/2002 4:00:18 AM EDT

[#33]

Reading in the prone position....

Posted: 5/31/2002 5:09:57 AM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I'm logged in at 1:30 am because my dead tired ass can't sleep. I'm too excited about getting to the BRC. I'm supposed to be flying out of town at 7am, which with all the new airline regs, means I have to get up at 4. That leaves me with just two hours to sleep... that'll just piss me off, so I'm staying up.

How do you guys handle insomnia?

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Obsess at how handsome my hubby looks and then, do some face-playing on the man.

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What the hell? [shock]

I was woondering why I wake up with bruises on my face.