How do you Sleep?

Sorry to hear about this. I know how hard it can be to go 24 or 36 hours on only an hour or 2 of sleep. I'm a former Big-Rig driver...

Is you house noisy at 3AM due to people IN the house or stuff outside?

This sounds like a job for a physician. You could search for years to find what a doctor would recommend in 30 seconds. If you don't like the thought of sleep-aides, tell the Dr. about this and maybe s/he can come up with some homeopathic remedy.

Definitely cut out all caffeine for the 6 hours before you go to bed. Bedtime @ 10, no coffee or soda after 4.

Perhaps run a fan, or tune a radio to static, or play a CD with white noise or ocean surf. I know you said you need silence, but this might block out some of the noise.

Best of luck.

When I do sleep soundly it's because I exhausted myself. Like you Michael I used to work long hours, as a security guard in a shipping terminal. That combined with Racing Thought Syndrome causes me to go, go, go at times.

Meditation has helped me in this area. When the mind calms down the body usually follows.

All the best, I know how frustrating this can be.

RB

I really have the same problem like the OP has. All the responsibilities/opportunities/problems, keep me awake for 2-3h before actually having some sleep and it is not the 100% sleep but like 20-30% of the actual value. So the next day everything is a blur, the mood is bad and the eyes hurt like hell.

As the last poster said that we have to quiet our mind with meditation, but how to do that ?

Good sleep hygiene is important: cool room, darkness, bedtime rituals, no TV on, "white noise". Getting back to basics can help.

While the most obvious benefits of quality and adequate amounts of sleep are mental clarity and physical energy, research keeps revealing many other critical health issues directly effected by sleep. It is really astounding.

Did you know that lack of proper sleep can help make you fat? Decrease your longevity? That it contributes to many illnesses and chronic conditions? There are body repair activities and essential hormonal functions that occur ONLY during a full sleep cycle. The build up of cortisol in the body (that is produced when we're stressed and cleansed through sleep) has a corrosive effect on the heart, entire cardiovascular system, nervous system and fat-burning system.

Sleep is essential... not a luxury. - Especially if you wish to be a high performance person. You are a like an athlete in many ways, treat yourself as such.

Karen
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Meditation before bed will help you remove the days stresses

Try salsa. Power nap after lunch. It really helps.

6 hours a day, it is necessary to keep your body and mind fresh and able to concentrate.

On a very serious note, I sleep whenever I want to sleep irrespective of how noisy the place is.

I sleep only when I am completely exhausted. This helps me get a sound sleep.

I don't really have a problem falling a sleep, even if it's noise around me. But my problem is that due to my busy schedule I only get ~6-7 hours of sleep each night and I would really, really need more. Without at least a coffee in the morning, I'm a zombie all day, lol

I have moments of sleep deprivation followed by the inability to wake up!
I call it 'insomnicoma'

I sleep after totally completing my task of the day.

Do this, Breath in as Deep & hard & fast as you can, Then Exhale & push out every last ounce & Repeat 30time's

You should experience Dizzyness & exhaustion

If you do it too much & just right you can Faint

Personally, I don't go to bed till im feeling I can't go on any longer, I stay awake 3day's straight a few times a month, Usually when I feel I cant concentrate well enough anymore, THEN I go to bed, & go to sleep quite fast

its much simpler for me.. i take healthy food.. work hard.. drink a lot of water.. go to sleep only when i feel too much sleepy and sleep till i feel lazy.. i just sleep once.. it can be from five hours to nine hours.. but i sleep as much as i want to.. and dont go to sleep when i am still feeling active enough to work..

I usually can sleep when i feel totally tired of working and I think of something particular. For example if i m developing a script, i think of the next steps, something small not too big. That always helped me sleep till now.

I can sleep for 9 hours and still wake up feeling tired,but other times I have 6 hours and feel fantastic,it's all about the quality of sleep rather than the amount.

I'm lucky in that I have no difficulty falling asleep most of the time.

However, when I have had to sleep where it's not quiet, I've used earplugs with some success.

The room should be cool - we rest better at about 60 degrees.

Darkness helps - thicker curtains or hanging blankets over the windows are options I've used, wearing one of those sleep masks I've never tried. No stimulants (coffee, tea, cocoa, sharp cheese).

Eating turkey with a cup of warm milk is purported to do wonders; I gag at warm milk, so I can't say I've used this myself. Soothing herb tea for me.

I hope you get some rest. My heart goes out to you.

Try this:

Once you are comfortably tucked up, close your eyes, relax your muscles (amazing how tensed up you can be, even when "relaxing" in bed). Feel each set of muscles loosen up. Then say to yourself:

I'll be asleep in two minutes and wake up refreshed at (whatever time you wish).

Until I practised this, I would also lie awake until the wee hours of the morning and then feel like death warmed up the next day for the same pattern to recur on the following night.

I'm sure you have set an alarm for an early hour but if you've also made a mental note to wake up at that hour, you always wake up at least a few seconds or even minutes before the alarm goes off.

It's conditioning your subconcious to obedience. It's never failed me. Some people say that if they haven't fallen off to sleep within minutes of turning out the light, they get up and do something like drinking warm milk or camomile tea before immediately returning to bed. They fall asleep almost immediately after their head touches the pillow.

I used to be a very bad sleeper. Would go to sleep at 4, only to have to wake up at 7, and I never felt I needed it, but as the years went on, the less I slept the worse I felt. But I couldn't help it, I couldn't sleep. So I just started reading things before I fell asleep, and recently was has really helped a lot has been playing the games on my phone. I just play until my eyes get real heavy and I know it's time to put my head on the pillow for I only have minutes til I doze off

Complete the task of the day so that you mind will be set calm and good sleeping environment is important like cool and quite room.

One word: melatonin.

sleep 8 hours atleast. And sleep only when you are sleepy. I sleep sometimes at 4 AM or even 5 AM

I sometimes use a tiny spray of liquid melatonin to take the edge off and drift into sleep quickly. Since it is also an antioxidant and does good things to my body while I sleep, I wake up refreshed and happy. The trick with melatonin is to make sure not to use too much or you will be groggy in the am. I use 1/2 to 1 mg, not 3 mg like most pills. I might mention that some people don't respond to melatonin, but it works like a charm for me, even on a long flight (going overseas) I can get some rest.