What do you do when you can't sleep...other than...

[warren]

I keep a radio next to my ear with the volume very low. If something really interesting comes on I go to sleep and just as the program is finishing I wake up.

 

[Ugly Cowboy]

Well, I get up and walk around outside, or go to the shed and fiddle around for a while. Might as well...

 

[holliewould]

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Same with me. Have you tried melatonin? I use it every night when I want to sleep. I hate sleeping pills, they wire me out.

 

[DTchickens]

If i cant sleep.. usually get up and read the forums. maybe read a few pages in a book (new study finds.. Reading makes you tired ) if that doesn't work. i'll work out for awhile. burn some energy. also have a radio on all the time (Cant sleep in silence) may just lay there and listen to it with my eyes closed.. not think.. worry or anything. just lay there.

-Daniel

 

[tfpets]

Sleep??

Oh yeah, I do that now....

I have irregular sleep patterns. Last night I spent a few hours out in the pet area, I was out with them last night at 11 pm, at 1 am, and at 5 am.........but I was worried about my momma goat cause she lost a baby during it's birth yesterday.....

Sometimes I sleep all night, without a problem, probably exhaustion. I go to work, 40 hours a week, for rest. Home life is full, and the kids n pets n stuff keep me busy. Im taking medication for migraines, Topamax, that gives me neat dreams, and I think that it may be helping me sleep now, but Im not sure....before I started taking it I used to only sleep at night every few days or so.....

I also get up and read the forums, and wonder what the heck other people are doing up so late or early??

Tina

 

[Picky Chicky]

Oh! DH suggests turning on an oscillating fan - not directed to you unless you like the wind in your face.... he's a deputy and that's the only way he can sleep during the day - is with the white noise in the background.

 

[JennsPeeps]

Use earplugs
Imagine a white sheet of paper (this is a sleep cue for me, big time)

If all else fails, I get up & read for a bit.

 

[Chicabee19]

Trazodone 75 mg.

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Play a few games of computer solitare. Zzzzzzzzzzz!

 

[DougD]

Can't believe no one has said this yet:
I count CHICKENS