Yeah, im gonna need some meds, I haven’t tried meditation, but i have too much “baggage” to deal with. I’m super tired today from using benadryl to knock me out. UGH.
Dude, we already talked about this and your situation.
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Doing this literally make me go temporarily insane. I’ve tried it before and become so hyper aware of everything around me to the point that I get completely overwhelmed by my senses.
Thats what I do, work 8am to 9pm go home and do shit in the shop or what ever then I’m wide awake.
I hear Propofol works pretty well.
Yeah, it is meditation. I just figured if I called it that people would be less likely to try it. You’re right about how it makes you focus on the present to forget about the past and the future. One of the best things you can do is listen to a constant sound like a clock ticking or if you’re so fortunate, waves on a beach. You focus so intensely on that sound that your mind blocks everything else out. When you’re done, you feel great. I used to do it a lot but now it’s hard for me to find the time and a quiet place to do it. It’s also a hell of a lot harder for me to concentrate these days.
Haha, yeah you’ll get that.
Hearing the ticking of a clock makes me fucking insane. I can’t stand that noise. However, waves are quite enjoyable. 
I understand the concept with focusing on one single thing to get your mind to stop wandering, though. There are CDs that help people with that. It sounds cheesy to use a CD but they are able to talk you through it and make it so that it’s incredibly hard NOT to let everything go.
There’s nothing wrong with using a CD. I don’t know if you mean an instructional CD, but I used to listen to anything that was relaxing. As cheesy as it sounds, those stupid CDs at the dollar store that have a picture of a landscape on the front work pretty well for this. I also found that Bob Marley did too, even though you couldn’t always isolate a constant sound.
When we still had my baby girl sleeping in the same room as us we tried using something called a “sleep sheep” to sooth her to sleep. After the first night my wife and I were laughing about how it didn’t really do much for her but we both loved how it soothed us to sleep.
So cuddle with one of these there big guy.
If that doesn’t work then give up and just cuddle with one of these.
Jesus Fry 3 Liters?!?!
Why mess around?
I know you’re (half) joking, Fry, but don’t drink alcohol before bed if you want to get a good night sleep.
Not only is it a diuretic (aka your kidneys produce more urine after you drink), but it increases brain activity and interferes with normal sleep patterns, making it more likely that you’ll wake up during REM sleep. Fun part is, it last for hours after the alcohol has been processed out of the bloodstream.
Plus, depending on what you’re drinking, the carbohydrates get converted to glucose - sugar - and your body gets a wake-up call at 3AM with tons of energy.
The white noise / blacked out room and the hour of chill time beforehand is all solid stuff though :tup:
That was the trick in the army, party like a rock star til about 3am, crash violently until 6am, and go run/vomit at PT… every day.
Go ride 88 miles to Little Valley and back on a bicycle and crash on the floor at 8pm. But now it’s 1:30 am and I’m WIDE awake-FUCK ME
Watched Ghost Hunters till 10 way past my bed time, and now I’m up at 5:30 to go swimming…
That’s good sleep my man. I get 3-5.5 hours a day.
Took a half of ambien, worked pretty good!
I don’t dream about what’s happening on TV but if I try to listen and actually pay attention to the show as I’m falling asleep, I’ll actually induce a lucid dream. When your body enters R.E.M sleep, it paralyzes itself so that you don’t move around while you’re dreaming. For me, I am sometimes alert and conscious during this process. All of a sudden I’ll feel my body freeze and not be able to move, which is super scary. The cool thing is if I don’t freak out, I can put myself into a dream. I just have to think about it and then BAM I’m in a complete dream world. I hate doing it though because feeling you’re body paralyze itself it not fun at all.
I had this happen once before and it was terrifying. I had never even heard of it happening before so I was trying to move, scream, do anything and couldn’t. Suddenly my body ‘woke up’ and I couldn’t sleep for the rest of the night.
That’s exactly the feeling. You might even hear strange noises, like you’re getting abducted by aliens or something. If that ever happens again, you can literally put yourself in a dream. But it’s definitely hard to remember that while you’re freaking out.
For the past few months and I have been having insomnia due to chemo treatments. This whole insomnia thing kills me and I always feel bad when I wake up my wife. I have finally gotten over the restless legs feeling that used to assist with the insomnia. It is a very good thing I am not working.
Does anyone else have insomnia and how do you deal with it?