read 2 paragraphs of pathology and you’ll be asleep before you know it.

google it, Robbin’s Pathology

I’m in bed at 10 or 11 and my TR sits on my belly till 2 or 3 in the morning. This subnotebook has made me a surf junkie when I should be sleeping.  :ph34r:

I never had a problem getting to sleep. My problem is waking up at 2 or 3. Lately, I’ve found that it helps if I get up, write my thoughts down, then do light reading.

When I wake up, my head is spinning with thoughts and ideas from the day. These are usually quite silly. Writing them is a way to show there aren’t really so many ideas there. (If that makes any sense.) It also helps me let them go. It’s like I don’t have to worry about remembering them because they are written down.

The only problem is, the process takes 1 - 2 hours. My alarm goes off at 5.

What we really need is less stress.

Seeing as how this thread has become so popular, I will throw in my two cents.  Stress is obviously an emotional disease.  We get so caught up in the temporary things of this world and fail to see the larger picture. 

My solution for everyone here:  Read the book of Ecclesiastes in the bible.  It was written by the wisest man that ever lived in this world, Solomon.  My reason is that you would not so much become spiritually enlightened, but rather understand that there is truely nothing in this world to fret over.

Test it and see…...you will either become grossly depressed about your state of life or be completely healed of your insomnia. 

I guarantee it. :D

[quote author=“deichenlaub”]I never had a problem getting to sleep. My problem is waking up at 2 or 3.

I’m always a little disturbed/amused when people list my regular bedtime as when they wake up in the middle of the night…

Another physical cause of insomnia that hasn’t been discussed yet is sleep apnea. A friend of my father’s was diagnosed with this and actually had to have surgery to correct the problem.

[quote author=“sp535”]
1. drink a sip of warm sake or sometimes small amount of milk with drops of red wine in it.

2. take melatonin(1-2mg, 3mg max.).

What does the sip of sake or drops or wine do? Its not like it’ll get you the least bit buzzed or relaxed… unless u get drunk on half a shot :shock: ... The melatonin however will obviously gett you to sleep. The only time it won’t is if your chemistry happens to be less sensitive to it. In which case my motive has always been to take some more :mrgreen:

[quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]In which case my motive has always been to take some more :mrgreen:

Too much screws with your sleep cycle and can prevent REM sleep.

[quote author=“Drachen”][quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]In which case my motive has always been to take some more :mrgreen:

Too much screws with your sleep cycle and can prevent REM sleep.

Drachen… you of all ppl should have understood that as half-serious :wink:

[quote author=“OnMyWayUp”]Drachen… you of all ppl should have understood that as half-serious :wink:

Well, I was the opposite.