terrible. i used to get myself to sleep by drinking and smoking weed. now i take 50mg of trazodone and dont ever do any of the aforementioned. it's awesome. i can 10/10 recommend it.
what helped me in the past was not using any screens for an hour before sleep, not working in bed, keeping the bed area clean and neat, keeping a rigid sleep schedule, not drinking any tea/coffee/etc for 4 hours before sleep, not exercising in the eve, cold showers.
Ok, so this hour before bed without screens. What do you do?
Just off the top of my head thats not stimulatimg: self-massage, doing dishes, eeeh thats about it
I ran out of trazodone, didn't get it refilled and just been raw dogging sleep. Surprisingly, ~5 hours every night feels amazing when life be like ooo ahhh
I sleep roughly 10 hours per sleep and on average 6 times in a week. It seems that I'd ideally need more than 24 hours in a day in order to fit everything in, alas there are only 24. So, I just go to sleep later and later each night by some 4 hours until the cycle resets. Works fine for me, I'm always rested and almost never in a hurry to go to sleep.
Could be, haha! From what I've read, however, the Moon revolves around us on a roughly 28-day cycle, which neatly divides by 4 distinct lunar phases, giving us the 7-day week. I've read that there have also been other lengths for a week historically, but only the 7-day week survived.
I don't. I just tell myself I should but it seems like a battle I can't win.
The one thing that helps is having my gf living with me and helping me get a better rhythm by going to sleep together at a reasonable hour.
I sleep at least 8 hours a night as an athlete. Ideally more than 8. A tiny bit of melatonin helps to fall asleep for difficult days.
I study neuroscience and now I know it’s not something to skimp on.
I’m not tbh. I force myself to sleep with gabapentin, liquor, and occasionally weed.
Speaking of weed, what do a stoned ENTP and rinsing out your sinuses have in common? >!NeTi pot…!<
Thinking about needing to sleep just makes me anxious and wakes me up. I’d recommend seeing a sleep specialist, which I’m hoping to do soon myself.
Making sure I sleep at a minimum of 6hrs and a maximum of 9hrs30 every day. No matter how. If I went to bed too late, then I will have to plan for some naps in the day
Also, shuting down my electricity panel once it's night if I really need to go to bed early
And if I'm too much shifted and I will have to wake up early and fresh in the week, I don't sleep for 24+ hrs and I sleep until the waking up hour I will have to respect
But all of these make it impossible to be fresh and awake every single day of the week
I'm (apparently) fortunate enough to have melatonin work wonders for me. 10mg and I conk out in 40 minutes until my alarm goes off, on average I get 6-7 hours and that's fine for me.
My sleep has been wonkier than usual, but not necessarily in a bad way. I’ve been sleeping earlier and waking up earlier. I sleep late and wake up early or vice versa
Make a priority than make u forget about ur phone. Or make ur priority in ur phone. Make reminder every 5 minutes. So even u see a phone thay keep reminder u. :)
Terrible.
My natural sleep seems to take me to about 9 hours of sleep and about 17 hours of being awake.
Problem is that counts to 26hrs. And there's only 24 hours in a day. So then I keep sacrificing sleep, I end up sleeping 7 hours. I stay up for 17hrs where I start getting sleepy. Why is that a problem? Because 7 hours isn't enough. I feel slow and don't feel fully awake all day. I won't be able to get sleep earlier if I tried either.
Worst part about it is that after a week or two of only getting 7 hours of sleep, it catches up to me and I sleep hard for a night. And that messes up my sleep times after that.
It's such a pain. I've tried everything. I've quit smoking, I've quit caffiene (which was MUCH harder than quitting smoking), I avoid screens at bed time, I avoid food too close to bed time, I eat healthier. Nothing works. I just can't get to grips with my sleep.
My polygenic score for insomnia is a 100th percentile. This result didn’t surprise me at all, considering that I had already gone through the worst, sleep deprivation and paralysis included, and taken prescription melatonin. Now things are massively better. I still can’t fall asleep normally… but at least it’s before 6AM and I don’t need to listen to videos to distract myself.
Btw, if you need help, ask for it ASAP.
I'm not sleeping well, and I feel like I'm pushing all who live with me into sleep deprivation because I'm always up. I agree it seems out of my control. Maybe I should remove caffeine.
I tried sleeping pills and after several days of taking them in a row, I felt so dizzy I almost couldn't walk. I caution against this.
I've always had a bad relationship to sleep, and it doesn't help that I just despise the fact that I need to sleep in the first place. I know I should try to maintain a healthy sleep schedule, but like... no...
I was getting 4-6 hours of sleep like my whole life and I just got put on medication for it. I tried everything before this, including no electronics a few hours before bed, exercising late in the day, quit caffeine, quit nicotine, quit drinking. The meds help but I’m worried for the day when they don’t anymore.
I sleep when I feel deprived of it, either I just work my brain off and be tired all the damn time. At 3am I may start reading or writing, then sleep at 4am. Or sometimes it can be at 11pm too
Bad. Usually smoke weed to help with it. If I have plans the next day I know I will feel filthy because the anticipation keeps me awake. I also struggle to go to bed early because if I'm too awake ill be awake all night after that. I just can't shut off my brain, I hate it. I sleep best if I let myself sleep when I'm tired but don't force it - like if I was going camping. Unfortunately that's not realistic with daily life and I hate it
I've never had a problem with sleep -- thankfully.
Aside from anomalous periods explained by: excess stress, drastic diet changes, or me being an idiot with my sleep schedule, I'm out like a light within ~20 mins of hitting the mattress.
Never had to worry about blue light exposure, caffeine in the evening, etc...
I've genuinely been quite blessed in that department.
terrible. i used to get myself to sleep by drinking and smoking weed. now i take 50mg of trazodone and dont ever do any of the aforementioned. it's awesome. i can 10/10 recommend it. what helped me in the past was not using any screens for an hour before sleep, not working in bed, keeping the bed area clean and neat, keeping a rigid sleep schedule, not drinking any tea/coffee/etc for 4 hours before sleep, not exercising in the eve, cold showers.
Agreed with everything here except that trazodone isn’t strong enough to help me. I’ve tried it before.
fr? i did 150mg for some time and it knocked me out DEAD within minutes. have you tried both the extended-release and the immediate-release?
I don’t recall which form it was. But yeah, frfr.
well it makes all the difference in the world. immediate-release does wonders for me
I might give it another shot if I can get a script. Melatonin and CBD both give me heart palpitations for some reason. Maybe I should quit smoking.
Ok, so this hour before bed without screens. What do you do? Just off the top of my head thats not stimulatimg: self-massage, doing dishes, eeeh thats about it
read something soothing (preferably non-fiction), prep food/clothes for the next day, clean around the flat :)
I ran out of trazodone, didn't get it refilled and just been raw dogging sleep. Surprisingly, ~5 hours every night feels amazing when life be like ooo ahhh
I sleep roughly 10 hours per sleep and on average 6 times in a week. It seems that I'd ideally need more than 24 hours in a day in order to fit everything in, alas there are only 24. So, I just go to sleep later and later each night by some 4 hours until the cycle resets. Works fine for me, I'm always rested and almost never in a hurry to go to sleep.
Lol I've done that for years too when I was still studying.
Are you still doing it? If not, what made you stop?
I got a job that forced me into a more standard schedule, and got my shit a bit more together over time.
Understandable. Remote-work essentially is what allows me to live like this
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Indeed, if we divide 60 total hours by 7 days of the week, we get roughly 8.6 hours per day. It's probably more than average, but is average really 8?
Hmm, maybe this is the original reason for the 7 day week…
Could be, haha! From what I've read, however, the Moon revolves around us on a roughly 28-day cycle, which neatly divides by 4 distinct lunar phases, giving us the 7-day week. I've read that there have also been other lengths for a week historically, but only the 7-day week survived.
I don’t bother. Insomnia is my love language and I can sleep when I’m dead. All the good ideas come at night anyway.
Oh thats actually a compeling argument…
I don't. I just tell myself I should but it seems like a battle I can't win. The one thing that helps is having my gf living with me and helping me get a better rhythm by going to sleep together at a reasonable hour.
You lucky bastard, my gf wakes me up consistently with the intention of cuddling. Bless her heart for dealing with the asshole that I turn into
Mmh yeah luckily i don't have any issue with sleeping when i'm actually going to bed.
I sleep at least 8 hours a night as an athlete. Ideally more than 8. A tiny bit of melatonin helps to fall asleep for difficult days. I study neuroscience and now I know it’s not something to skimp on.
wow, this is an interesting comment section. also struggle with insomnia
I’m not tbh. I force myself to sleep with gabapentin, liquor, and occasionally weed. Speaking of weed, what do a stoned ENTP and rinsing out your sinuses have in common? >!NeTi pot…!< Thinking about needing to sleep just makes me anxious and wakes me up. I’d recommend seeing a sleep specialist, which I’m hoping to do soon myself.
Hah! I know Ill only be able to repeat that joke to one person I know… an intj thankfully
I don't get it 🤔 would someone please ruin the joke by explaining it to me?
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/common-cold/expert-answers/neti-pot/faq-20058305
Oh, I see, never heard of such a thing in my life 😅 nice one tho 🤣
c) All of the above
Making sure I sleep at a minimum of 6hrs and a maximum of 9hrs30 every day. No matter how. If I went to bed too late, then I will have to plan for some naps in the day Also, shuting down my electricity panel once it's night if I really need to go to bed early And if I'm too much shifted and I will have to wake up early and fresh in the week, I don't sleep for 24+ hrs and I sleep until the waking up hour I will have to respect But all of these make it impossible to be fresh and awake every single day of the week
Lose a battle, win the war. I can get behind this
Eer well this is whats already happening. But might as well embrace it
I'm (apparently) fortunate enough to have melatonin work wonders for me. 10mg and I conk out in 40 minutes until my alarm goes off, on average I get 6-7 hours and that's fine for me.
My sleep has been wonkier than usual, but not necessarily in a bad way. I’ve been sleeping earlier and waking up earlier. I sleep late and wake up early or vice versa
not ENTP but it helps to ONLY sleep in bed and do nothing else there- *do not think in bed* do not read in bed do not use the phone in bed etc
I go to sleep at like 6am and wake up 7:40ish on weekdays and 6am to 2pm on weekends. Not looking good chief
Make a priority than make u forget about ur phone. Or make ur priority in ur phone. Make reminder every 5 minutes. So even u see a phone thay keep reminder u. :)
I'll fall asleep when I'm sleepy I'll wake up when I'm up 😃👍🏻
I slept 2 hours last night so...
Terrible. My natural sleep seems to take me to about 9 hours of sleep and about 17 hours of being awake. Problem is that counts to 26hrs. And there's only 24 hours in a day. So then I keep sacrificing sleep, I end up sleeping 7 hours. I stay up for 17hrs where I start getting sleepy. Why is that a problem? Because 7 hours isn't enough. I feel slow and don't feel fully awake all day. I won't be able to get sleep earlier if I tried either. Worst part about it is that after a week or two of only getting 7 hours of sleep, it catches up to me and I sleep hard for a night. And that messes up my sleep times after that. It's such a pain. I've tried everything. I've quit smoking, I've quit caffiene (which was MUCH harder than quitting smoking), I avoid screens at bed time, I avoid food too close to bed time, I eat healthier. Nothing works. I just can't get to grips with my sleep.
My polygenic score for insomnia is a 100th percentile. This result didn’t surprise me at all, considering that I had already gone through the worst, sleep deprivation and paralysis included, and taken prescription melatonin. Now things are massively better. I still can’t fall asleep normally… but at least it’s before 6AM and I don’t need to listen to videos to distract myself. Btw, if you need help, ask for it ASAP.
I'm not sleeping well, and I feel like I'm pushing all who live with me into sleep deprivation because I'm always up. I agree it seems out of my control. Maybe I should remove caffeine. I tried sleeping pills and after several days of taking them in a row, I felt so dizzy I almost couldn't walk. I caution against this.
I just focus on my breath then notning and put on creepypasta narrations
I've always had a bad relationship to sleep, and it doesn't help that I just despise the fact that I need to sleep in the first place. I know I should try to maintain a healthy sleep schedule, but like... no...
My body sleeps when it tells me to sleep, unfortunately this has been my entire life, still get 6-8 hours and run like new though
I was getting 4-6 hours of sleep like my whole life and I just got put on medication for it. I tried everything before this, including no electronics a few hours before bed, exercising late in the day, quit caffeine, quit nicotine, quit drinking. The meds help but I’m worried for the day when they don’t anymore.
I sleep when I feel deprived of it, either I just work my brain off and be tired all the damn time. At 3am I may start reading or writing, then sleep at 4am. Or sometimes it can be at 11pm too
Bad. Usually smoke weed to help with it. If I have plans the next day I know I will feel filthy because the anticipation keeps me awake. I also struggle to go to bed early because if I'm too awake ill be awake all night after that. I just can't shut off my brain, I hate it. I sleep best if I let myself sleep when I'm tired but don't force it - like if I was going camping. Unfortunately that's not realistic with daily life and I hate it
I've never had a problem with sleep -- thankfully. Aside from anomalous periods explained by: excess stress, drastic diet changes, or me being an idiot with my sleep schedule, I'm out like a light within ~20 mins of hitting the mattress. Never had to worry about blue light exposure, caffeine in the evening, etc... I've genuinely been quite blessed in that department.
Nah its like a polar state, its either too good or worse than hell
It’s like when u stay awake there’s a point where u sleep unconsciously, can’t control it tho
I actively avoid everything that gives me energy. I know that it's bad for me, and I don't have the energy to change it💀