INSOMNIA

Non-Phish General
#1

this is rediculous. how can the simple and natural act of falling asleep be so fucking hard? i mean, won’t your body just like, shut down after a while? i’ve never been real great at being able to fall asleep easily, but i’m going on two weeks of tossing and turning all night. i’m lucky to get three hours if that.

i had this problem once before a few years back. went exactly 21 nights w/out sleeping. i’d crash for a couple hours after i got home from work usually, and had no problem doing that; but once i went to bed at night, my mind just wouldn’t shut off. like now. anyway, i finally went to the doctor and he was actually pissed at me. told me i should’ve come to him after three days. well, he gave me a two week supply of Ambien (awesomest stuff on earth bar none) and that put me back on track. i wish i had some of that now.

so any other insomniacs here?

#2

I’ve had problems with it off and on. Like you said, my mind just wouldn’t stop. Even if I went to sleep, I’d wake up almost every hour on the hour because my mind would suddenly kick back on and I’d be right where I was before I fell asleep. The only thing that seems to work for me is meditation which I’m sure you’ve tried or imagining I’m staring at a white wall so that in essence my mind was blank. I focused so intently on the wall of my imagination that all the things running through my mind stopped and I fell asleep within a few minutes.

#3

Maybe it is time to check the MEAT board and enjoy yourself.q

#4

Substances. Insomnia is most often chemically induced. Your body is overproducing something that’s stimulating it, so all you have to do is counteract those chems with some of your own. I find wine does the trick for me, but if you’re really pumping, the typical medical solution is not depressants, but the opposite. They treat hyperactive kids with stimulants to “burn them out” so to speak.

How’s your eating habits? Have they changed at all over this period? If you don’t want to go the chemical route, try some basic yoga relaxation techniques. If your mind has to race, let it. Just don’t react to it because the reaction pumps out more stimulants into your body, and the cycle repeats itself.

If this doesn’t help, go back to Will’s method every half hour until you’re exhausted.

#5

^Yes, sex yourself often and you shall sleep

#6

Valerian root. Buy some, it works.

#7

^ Valerian root has helped me in the past. Also any sort of long deep breathing/yoga/relaxation techniques… Learning to consciously relax your body and mind is a valuable skill.

#8

2 words: da booze. I drank half a bottle of vodka last night and was out like a light at 12:00.

It’s not like I have problems sleeping, but if I did, problem solved.

#9

I agree with anyone who suggested cranking one out. Never fails. :stuck_out_tongue:

#10

^Yeah there’s no stopping a recently orgasmed male from falling immediately to sleep. I’ve actually seen a man go from “finish” to snoring in less than a minute.

#11

Damn, I knew I should have pulled those blinds down. How embarrassing.

#12

^^ How do you know he wasn’t faking and he just wanted to get some sleep?

:slight_smile:

#13

^ Honey, I wore him out! :slight_smile:

#14

well it’s 1:45pm and i woke up about a half hour ago. must’ve drifted off sometime around 7. so although my day is mostly wasted at least i got a few hours of sleep in, which is most important at this time.

yeah, i used to meditate regularly and got out of the habit. def valuable. will try the Valerian root as well.

hopefully i’ll snap out of this spell soon and get back to some semblance of normalcy…

thanks for all the good advice folks :wink: especially Will.

#15

^^I’ve also seen recently orgasmed females go from finish to snoring in less than a minute :wink:

#16

I’ve seen recently orgasmed females go from finish to psycho in less than a minute.

#17

^that’s not normal?

#18

^ I take it you’ve never been brought to climax by Neil.

#19

^^for a girl any transition from anything to psycho is normal duder…

#20

^thank god. i thought i was living in an alternate, insomniac universe for a minute there.

^^well you know what they say about Neil: “Neil’s Needs, Not Yours”.

::runs out of post crying::