h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Pish-posh. You just need time to adjust to sleeping without it.

Anyway, it doesn't really matter. As long as you got a system that works for you it's fine.

Things one perhaps should not do before bedtime are watch TV, use the internet, drink and eat.

Things one ought to try. Have a bath, read a book, chill out and clear your mind and smell lavendar.

opti


struggling to find the bit of h2g2 she's after

What works well for one person, doesn't necessarily for another; E.G., I useually have a cup of coffee around midnight, which is about one or two hours before I go to bed, and when at my Fathers, its more useual that I have one twenty or thirty minutes befor eheading to bed and I useually fall asleep faster when at my Dads (quieter area)...

As to background noise, I've known a few people who insist on having the radio on low but loud enough to hear at night Which I@m not fond of.

However, I've another friend who always leaves the radio on at night; tuned to 'white noise', as without this when it is very queit he gets a form of tinitus which he finds worse but the white noise stops the tinitus

I still think one of the most important things, which is often true for most people, is just establishing the routeen, whateve rit may be for that indivdiual; E.G., for me its the coffe fairly* close to bed time I guess just part of my routeen....

One of the most important parts of the routeen is the waking time; this should be pretty much the same all the time as its the time we rise, rahter than the time we go to bed, which helps set the bodies natural internal clock.

For me, this was true I slept a lot more consistantly when I got up each and every day at 7, even when I didn't need to be up that early. To an extent I was also tending to go to bed earlier as I just felt tired earlier but not always*, often I'd still be going to bed 2 or 3 AM, and at that time would often go two or three days with no sleep cept a short nap or two

Also, I think gradually slowing down of an evening, particularly mentall is a good idea; this I don't practist as I'm sitting up on the PC on the net reading and palying music, or as I@m doing now, recording music and playing guitar/bass, pretty-much right up till when I go up to bed. If you do this then probably like me you find the mind is just still too active as you get into bed, TV probably isn't quite* so bad; it useually tends to make me feel tired watching TV anyhow, most of it is just so



I've slept crap the past few day, last night went up to bed about 3 AM, after getting up about 11 AM, and was still awake at 5 AM in bed, before then getting up this morning at 11 but I'd woken up just after 10

I actually have the opposite problem, I have to wake up early, like 4-5am. Luckily my boyfriend has the opposite sleep pattern, he stays up late talking to me and I wake up early to talk to him, I wish he lived closer than the USA, but at least this way we get to talk.

I set my alarm for 3.55 but I still end up finally waking up at 4.30-5.00. I guess the main problem is that I have to have my alarm close to me so it doesn't wake anyone else up, so I don't have to wake up much to press 'sleep'.

I don't have a problem falling asleep though, since I've been on Seroquel that hasn't been a problem. (not endorsing using this though, it's not a sleeping medicine, just makes you tired as a side effect). I don't suppose the Lithium would help me stay awake ether...Yeah all my meds make me sleepy

A more natural way would be warm milk and other drinks/ foods that stimulate seratonin production (I think I read somewhere that eggs do that), no alcohol, sugar or caffine, they won't help. I also read somewhere that if you lie in bed for 20 minutes without going to sleep you should get up and go somewhere else until you feel sleepy, that keeps your bed associated with sleep and not the inability to sleep. Repeat until you fall asleep.