It sucks…I work at all different hours of the day and week…I can’t get myself on a regular sleeping regement…

I wonder if sometimes I even should sleep at all…And when I don’t get good sleep for a few days I will crash for like 15 hours..

I think I might have ADD… :oops:

Does anyone else have this type of problem..

It is called sleep deprivation and the effects are cumulative.  The more often you skip sleeping the more pronounced your exhaustion will be.  The 15 hour sleep period is just your body trying to recover.  What you are experiencing is very similar to “Jet Lag”.  It took me a long time to figure out the best routines for me to use to adjust to various time-zone changes. Everyone has different requirements and techniques to “fix” the problem.  Don’t stress over it or you will just make it worse.

You can also use sleeping aids to help you get back onto schedule but I wouldn’t recommend using them often. Also, the old warm cup of milk before bedtime also seems to do the trick for some people…it sometimes triggers the post-breastfeeding mechanism in your body and then it’s nap time!  :wink:

Maybe I’ll pass on the milk and just go directly for the dispenser… always a good nightcap for me… **snore!**

Self-hypnosis can be effective. If you don’t fancy visiting a hypnotist try a CD from this lady; http://www.cleargoalconcept.com/cds.html
She is the vice principal of the London School of Clinical Hynosis and these CDs are very good and her very British accent should be entertaining. I trained at this school and can vouch for them not intentionally scrambling your brain.  Worth a try and self-hypnosis is skill you’ll have for life.

Or just drink more whisky.

[quote author=“Butter Fingers”]Self-hypnosis can be effective. If you don’t fancy visiting a hypnotist try a CD from this lady; http://www.cleargoalconcept.com/cds.html
She is the vice principal of the London School of Clinical Hynosis and these CDs are very good and her very British accent should be entertaining. I trained at this school and can vouch for them not intentionally scrambling your brain.  Worth a try and self-hypnosis is skill you’ll have for life.

Or just drink more whisky.

Isn’t self-hypnosis.. or rather, any kind of hypnosis… simply a state of subconsious relaxation… u let the subconscious control ur conscious mind since the subconscious is… ok… conputer analogy…:
Conscious mind is like the Pentium M with 1-2MB of L2 cache RAM
Sub-Conscious is like the Intel Itanium with 8MB L3 and 4-8GB RAM which can hold WAY more and process even more of it. But the Itanium takes up a lot more wattage so the body would rather use the Pentium M and run longer than drain your system with the Itanium…

I’ve always been interested in it…

[quote author=“OnMyWayUp”][quote author=“Butter Fingers”]Self-hypnosis can be effective. If you don’t fancy visiting a hypnotist try a CD from this lady; http://www.cleargoalconcept.com/cds.html
She is the vice principal of the London School of Clinical Hynosis and these CDs are very good and her very British accent should be entertaining. I trained at this school and can vouch for them not intentionally scrambling your brain.  Worth a try and self-hypnosis is skill you’ll have for life.

Or just drink more whisky.

Isn’t self-hypnosis.. or rather, any kind of hypnosis… simply a state of subconsious relaxation… u let the subconscious control ur conscious mind since the subconscious is… ok… conputer analogy…:
Conscious mind is like the Pentium M with 1-2MB of L2 cache RAM
Sub-Conscious is like the Intel Itanium with 8MB L3 and 4-8GB RAM which can hold WAY more and process even more of it. But the Itanium takes up a lot more wattage so the body would rather use the Pentium M and run longer than drain your system with the Itanium…

I’ve always been interested in it…

Hypnoidal states are pretty common without any outside help or intervention. The state you enter when admiring your latest Sony purchase to the exclusion of everything else is a trance of sorts. So are day-dreaming and those interesting moments between sleep/waking and vice-versa. 

Formal hypnosis and self-hypnosis only help you to recreate those states in a more controllable way. They can also help you to go into a much deeper trance and this is well worth experiencing. Meditation, chanting, Autogenics etc all bring you to a similar end point but may take more effort from the individual than a trip to a hypnotist or listening to a CD.

Of course I’m only talking about relaxation here and not about any therapy that might be applied whilst you’re in an hypnotic state. Self-hypnosis for relaxation is easy, safe and pleasant.

Make sure you visit a properly qualified and experienced hypnotist and if you don’t like them just walk away whatever the reason for your visit.

Yeah warm milk works and so does turkey at thanksgiving, becuase in both cases they contain significant amounts a L-tryptophan in them.  This is a precursor of serotonin.  So it works to help put one to sleep.  It all depends on the perosn though, becuase everybody reacts a little differently.  It may work great or very little.

Here is a site to clarify some more of the priciples and other stuff.  You can also buy L-tryptophan as a supplement being that it is an EAA, essential amino acid.

This might help out.

I had always heard that turkey making you drowsy was a myth, since even though it does contain tryptophan (like many other foods), the amount is too small to have an appreciable effect.

Snopes article

Psychology Today article

By the way, no more noise, he’s sleeping :mrgreen:

get laid ... works 100%  :mrgreen:

cellery wrote:

I had always heard that turkey making you drowsy was a myth, since even though it does contain tryptophan (like many other foods), the amount is too small to have an appreciable effect.

That can be true in most cases.  It all depends on the persons sensitivity to L-tryptophan.  So the more sensitive the better it works.  I have tried the warm milk trick, but it had little effect.  So i guess i am not that sensitive to L-tryptophan.

It is all about the persons body chemistry.  Just like with perscription medications.  Some people get all the side effects that the drug has and still others get none or only one.  It boils down receptors on cells and how many of them there and stuff like that.  Molecular biology stuff.

Thanks everyone for caring…I did get a couple of hours of sleep last night…And I don’t have to be at work until later tomorrow afternoon…

I am counting on getting some good rest…I also have the weekend off..