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That was a bit click bait of me but I really want to know.

I don't sleep well and have not for a very, very long time. I imagine that a lot of others here have similar issues with it.

So. How do you sleep at night?

Do you have supplements that help? Are you on some sort of medication?

Do you just do what I do now and say screw it and get what little sleep you can when you can?

Maybe one or two times a year I feel like I get amazing sleep and its like life is in full color rather than black an white. Anyone else live like that?

[edit] I should have pinged suplex on this one. ;)

That was a bit click bait of me but I really want to know. I don't sleep well and have not for a very, very long time. I imagine that a lot of others here have similar issues with it. So. How do you sleep at night? Do you have supplements that help? Are you on some sort of medication? Do you just do what I do now and say screw it and get what little sleep you can when you can? Maybe one or two times a year I feel like I get amazing sleep and its like life is in full color rather than black an white. Anyone else live like that? [edit] I should have pinged suplex on this one. ;)

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[–] • 3 pts

Melatonin.

[–] • 1 pt

That worked for me for about three nights then didn’t. Later I read taking it tells your body it doesn’t need to make its own so it quits producing it. Permanently in some cases. So I read mind you. Who knows.

[–] • 1 pt

No you're right. You're supposed to only take light doses and not heavy ones every day. A hard days work will make you sleep naturally. It's more of a cure for nights you can't sleep and need to get some.

I've heard the same thing about the body not producing as much but only temporarily. I have never heard about the body stopping creating it permanently though.

[–] • 1 pt

“It's more of a cure for nights you can't sleep and need to get some.”

I’ll buy that. Not much help for continuous and chronic insomnia, even after a hard days of physical work, but yeah it can help if you just have the occasional trouble getting to sleep. Magnesium helps get you down too, but I understand you have to be careful with it as it has to have a proper balance with calcium. A bit too much of one over the other can cause issues it is claimed. Lol, it’s frustrating as fuk all try’n to suss out fact from fiction in the health world. That and there’s no one size fits all program. Lots of factors to factor in individually speaking. Basic rules, but yeah….

Mentioned below in here somewhere I found the sound of thunderstorms would put me out pretty good. 99% of the time.

[–] • 1 pt

Melatonin wakes me up and prevents me from sleeping.

[–] • 0 pt

It does the opposite for me, I go out like a light in about an hour but I only take it when I know I need to get up early and cannot sleep.

[–] • 2 pts

Am I sober or relapsing in this thought experiment?

[–] • 2 pts

In my mid-60s. I've been sleeping great. About 15 years ago I went through a very frustrating stretch of waking up at all hours of the night but that seems to have subsided on it's own long ago. I think it was all stress related. My only issue is that now I sleep less than I used to, roughly 5-6 hours a night. Occasionally I force myself to sleep late on a Saturday or Sunday morning. No medications, teas or concoctions.

To get to sleep, I stop drinking coffee by 8PM, usually listen to a long yt video after going to bed around midnight or so, drift off long before the video finishes. I sleep soundly and wake up about 5 hours later. Works like a charm on me.

[–] • 1 pt

well, if you are learning a language and you try and learn your vocab after about 10 o'clock at night, I guarantee you your brain will just shut down and it will be sleep time.

if I wake up at night and I'm awake for more than say 10 minutes then I just start reading and I might read for half an hour and then I go back to sleep. No point being awake at night.

[–] • 1 pt

For the last 10 years I have been struggling with sleep and have found ways to manage it. Describe for me what a sleepless night looks for you and I will tell you how to try and fix it.

[–] • 1 pt

Its been like this my whole life. A few times a year I seem to get really good sleep and its like the world is a different place.

At this point ive even completely eliminated any caffeine/stimulants from my diet and it has not helped at all other than im more tired during the day.

I read at night before bed (kindle, no backlight) with a low-ish light level and no blue light but some nights I just end up reading for hours and im not tired.

When I do get to sleep it is never really deep sleep and I wake up tired the next day.

[–] • 1 pt

Do you ever get increased hearth rate, shallow breathing or tossing and turning at night, or restless leg syndrome?

[–] • 1 pt

Not particularly, it has happened before but it's few and very far between. Since im not getting deep sleep I do end up waking up, rolling over and going back to sleep often.

[–] • 1 pt

Throughout the day, I constantly ask myself "am I working hard enough" and "can I do more". If I burn through a lot of energy from the time I wake up (either physically or mentally, or both) I start to look forward to my evening shower and then I fall asleep in under 2 minutes, and sleep right through the night.

I suppose getting a lot of work done helps me avoid stress because I know I did things well and they won't come back to bite me in the ass.

[–] • 1 pt

Pretty much a problem for me since I turned fifty. It became even worse here in my mid sixties with RA. The pain and discomfort no matter the position associated with RA made sleeping nearly impossible. Taking magnesium before bed helped a lot, but what really did it for me was the sound of heavy rain and thunderstorms off a jewtube channel. It runs for ten hours. Listening to and concentrating on just the sound of it lulled me to sleep quite fast despite the pain. First time I had slept 8 hours straight in years. Sometimes a full 10 hrs. A lot of times without having to piss. Even if I do have to get up and piss I can go right back down, where before not so much. I don’t know, between a mind racing with thoughts, combined with pain and discomfort, focusing on the sounds of a soothing rainstorm put me right down. With vivid dreams too so it got me in that deep sleep I hadn’t had in forever. Might give that a try.

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I sleep terribly. I have absolutely horrible, terrifying dreams most nights, and I remember them vividly.

I have tried drugs, I have tried booze. I have tried meditation, I have tried relaxation, I have tried exercise.

Basically, my life sucks a lot and I usually want to die. So I carry a lot of shit around with me.

But those dreams. Fuck. They come out of nowhere. I dream absolutely crazy, heart-stopping shit sometimes. Most times it's just bad.

So far booze helps the most. Usually just puts me out. Problem with this is two-fold: I have a crazy high tolerance for alcohol. It's genetic. Usually takes at least half a standard bottle to have any real effect on me. Forget wine or beer that stuff is like water. And I tend towards high blood sugar. Alcohol initially pushes the blood sugar down, which you'd think is good, but the after-effects aren't great. So while alcohol helps the dreams it's not a good long-term solution.

Man I don't know what to do.

But I do know this: My life sucks and I wish I would die.

[–] • 1 pt

If you can't fall asleep, you probably need to lay off the stimulants like caffeine, B vitamins, TV, etc.

If you can't stay asleep, you need to get a sleep study done (check for apnea), and lay off the inflamitories like dairy and nightshades (tomatoes, etc) 6 hrs before bed.

[–] • 0 pt

Several years ago I eliminated all caffeine from my diet. I get away from screens with backlights at least 3 hours before bed. I do have sinus problems and have not done a study for apnea yet, I probably do have that. I use those nose breath strips things and they seem to help somewhat.

[–] • 1 pt

Try benadryl

[–] • 0 pt

I used to do that about half an hour to an hour before bed. It kind of works to fall asleep but not stay asleep and the antihistamines eventually start screwing with my mood and im just in a crap mood all of the time.

[–] • 0 pt

1/2 a bottle of cough syrup