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Any room on the shit-ability-to-sleep bus? I'll probably drop off at 7 or so again, wake up at 12 again, feeling like a tnuc again.

fractal wrote:

mks wrote:Sativas will keep you up. A good indica will put you down. I'm a light sleeper and I sometimes have insomnia as well. I couple of puffs of a strong indica an hour and a half before bedtime really helps.

same for me! sativas keep me buzzing

You dudes need to try a pure SA Landrace sativa.
Very high CBD count.
Get very high and then sleep like a baby.

Knocks you out.

I DID IT. Hot shower + reading. Thanks lil' ninja buddies.

i try not to look at a screen for at least an hour before bed too, otherwise your brain stays all wired

Go for a run (a proper run) a couple of hours before you're planning on going to bed and try and keep a set pattern to your winding down... do a few of the same things on the way to bed every night in the same order.. your body will get used to the ritual and after a while will naturally feel like going to sleep when you go through the motions. Reading after a hot bath really helps my eyelids start to drop.

Try not to get into the habit of smoking a spliff every night, it quickly becomes part of your body's sleep ritual and before long you'll feel like you can't sleep without one. You can, but thinking that you can't is enough not to fall asleep a lot of the time.

Someone once told me falling asleep was all about making a choice to be asleep. I've still never quite worked out how to make it.

Magma - have you ever astrally projected yourself?
You learn to quieten your thoughts and focus on the blackness rather than the images that appear.
When you train yourself to ignore everything but the black behind your eyelids, you learn to fall asleep at will.

If I battle to sleep this is my go to solution.

1. stay awake for >24 hours
2. fall asleep at a reasonable time (11-12pm) without screens or distractions (you'll be too tired to want to anyway)
3. wake up at a reasonable time (07-08am)
4. get through the day
5. repeat steps 2-4 until all is good

worked for me, after about day four i started making valerian tea and drinking it 1hr before bed with a couple of other herbs and roots.
now im normal.
hard to do the stay awake thing and jump straight into the routine but it works because youll be tired enough for the first week to just
want to (and actually achieve) sleep straight away. then your internal clock will follow. just gotta have ballz and a free weekend.

For me it's either:
Hot shower + boring book
Indica spliff + comedy on very low brightness screen
A combo tea that has valerian, chamomile, lavender and lemon bark. Tastes amazing, and i keep the teabag soaking in it. Knocks me out when I feel edgy.
Also, Panadol/advil/tylenol night (rarely)

Or any combination of the above. I haven't had a problem sleeping in a while though.

Electric_Head wrote:Magma - have you ever astrally projected yourself?
You learn to quieten your thoughts and focus on the blackness rather than the images that appear.
When you train yourself to ignore everything but the black behind your eyelids, you learn to fall asleep at will.

If I battle to sleep this is my go to solution.

Not specifically, but it sounds like something I do a bit anyway... I'll give it a more concerted effort. That sounds exactly like the right sort of method to me...

The best "fuck I REALLY NEED TO SLEEP" trick I ever found was to go through the alphabet thinking of a song that I liked for each letter... I don't remember ever making it past O!

Reading works at the start of the book but not if its a page turner from the get go. Valerium tablets ive heard work. Cutting caffeine intake in the afternoon. Meditation.

Electric_Head wrote:Magma - have you ever astrally projected yourself?

i have been trying to do this on and off for years and i cant seem to go all the way although i think i have gotten pretty close. Theres a point where everything starts to vibrate and you get a weird kind of head rush, it's such a bizarre sensation that it sort of take me out of the moment and it stops..

its almost 6am

i am so tired

do you worry about things when you are trying to go to sleep?

i have anxiety & heart problems.

apprently, if you mix the 2 together you get insomnia!

Nevalo wrote:i have anxiety & heart problems.

apprently, if you mix the 2 together you get insomnia!

i was having what i thought was sleep apnea almost every night(wake up with a start to what i thought felt like the beginning of a heart attack) till the doc said it was probably anxiety. I was perscribed quetapine (for other shit as well as anxst) and that seemed to do the trick. Im off the meds now and the sleep anxiety has been rare.
I was on em for about six months.

I work nights. 3 nights a week finishing at 7am. After about 6 months I've just about become successful at getting up and going to bed at normal times on my days off

Doesn't always work out though

i used to have a lot of anxiety when i was younger

my back would hurt from my shoulder muscles being so tight and i would clench my teeth all the time so i had TMJ problems

it started going away as i got closer to my late 20s.. I don't know how old you are but maybe you can look forward to that

imami wrote:

Electric_Head wrote:Magma - have you ever astrally projected yourself?

i have been trying to do this on and off for years and i cant seem to go all the way although i think i have gotten pretty close. Theres a point where everything starts to vibrate and you get a weird kind of head rush, it's such a bizarre sensation that it sort of take me out of the moment and it stops..

I've been able to get above my bed before and was able to look at myself sleeping.
Beyond that it became a dream.
I never could control the actual projection to the point that I could travel.
I would just wake up in the morning not having realized.

bunch of druggies

just watch something in bed. nothing that you'll find entertaining though or you'll stay up obviously

LACE wrote:bunch of druggies

just watch something in bed. nothing that you'll find entertaining though or you'll stay up obviously

dynasty?