Awake at night.

iana · Guru

Awake at night.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

Yup! I do it in cycles, for a week or two I'm up prowling the house at night, then nest week or two I sleep through. Don't know why, its not the phases of the moon, although I am often up on moonlit nights.
A cuppa tea, and jot down all those ideas you have buzzing round, as I will forget them in the morning, helps most times.
I think its best to just go with the flow, its ok to be awake.

iana · Guru

Yes fundamentally the same, except I wake up on a regular basis, I yearn for a full nights sleep but hello 2:30 again. A cup of tea, do some surfing on the computer and then back to bed. Trouble is I get up at 5 and leave for work at 6am. Seems when I wake up and its all dark, those dark and worrying thoughts emerge. I have to get up to make them go away.

PeterD · Guru

iana wrote:
I woke up this morning at 2:30 am, which seems to be the usual time I wake up. Logged on to GN forum and can see I'm not the only one that's awake.

We have many members from overseas who would be logged on, are you sure it's not them you are not seeing them on the list?

villatranquilla · Guru

try taking magnesium

Dunmowin · Guru

Cup of tea at 2.30 in the morning is not good, unless it is de-caf.

Kendo · Senior Member

ENYA

I worked night shift for many years. When I couldn't sleep (during the day) I'd put an ENYA CD on and it (usually) did the trick.

My kids recon it bored me to sleep. yawn biggrin (Philistines! )

I'm sorry if the above is a little light hearted, and no I don't suffer from cronic sleeplessness so I don't really know what it's like. But for me, sleeplessness usually comes when I'm planning something I'm really interested in or something is bothering me. I step through things again and again and again. I know I'm doing it but I just can't turn off. I have found music often helps sooth and break that cycle.

Jeff

iana · Guru

Thanks for the ideas, but I was really enquiring if others had the same or similar problems with sleep. I watched the Grand Prix on Sunday, saw the start and woke up during the trophy presentation. Apparently it was a boring race, but I don't know!

Weevil · Guru

Alternate Nostril Breathing to help with sleep - Sound On !

I am another that can't sleep, even after taking sleeping pills sometimes !

I am going to try this method and see if it works, sound on to listen to it;

http://www.abc.net.au/health/features/stories/2015/03/31/4208038.htm