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Try excersising for an hour, then take a nice hot bath before bed. Sounds like all of you could use some meditating. Need to release pent up stress. We go through the same thing up here in AK during the summer. It does not get dark all summer, and a person just keeps going and going. Then after a couple months it's big time spiral to disaster and burnt to a crisp. I find that getting out in the woods or near a lake for a couple hours and just relaxing/meditating really slows me down and I can zonk right out. Also no coffee just tea helps me. I simply refuse to resort to eating pills for anything. Good luck...
Yeah I don't like the idea of medicating the problem either.
Just simply for the fact, I like to do things the all natural way!
And not homeopathic medicines either... I mean have my body adjust itself.
I remember one time on Scientific American Frontier with Alan Alda, he did this show on how there are places that can "adjust" your body's internal clock. And actually help you fall asleep at the time you want.
I went to bed at 11. Here I am. I have battled this for years. A few years back I went through a really rough time where I could only sleep for 30 minutes at a time. Lasted for many months. The doctors could not medicate me to sleep. They tried all of the sleeping type meds, anti-depressants, and even heavy narcotics.
I quit worrying about it. Some nights I get sleep, and some nights I do not. There does not seem to be any pattern to it. It does not make a difference what I eat, how much physical activity I engage in, or what is going on in my world.
Momentarily I will be playing mah jong solitaire or perhaps mindlessly playing regular solitaire. In about 45 minutes I will go back to bed. I might have a bowl of cereal.
I think some people don't need that much sleep. Alot of times I put on the mp3 player and some ear buds and let it play all night. Just some good old mellow tunes or space music. Knocks me right out.
I'm glad this doesn't only happen to me! Yes, misery loves company! I have anxious episodes where I can't fall asleep because I'm thinking about dumb things (what if there's an earthquake in the next thirty seconds?). If I'm awake too long it's as if my body says, "Oh, I'm supposed to be awake!" and that's when the itchiness starts, and I'm either too hot or too cold. The covers are too twisted, but I'm too lazy to get up and remake the bed... I could go on and on. It's after 2:00 a.m., and I have to get up at 5:50 to be at work by 7:00.
I've had trouble sleeping all my life. My mother says I didn't sleep the first two years of my life I never took naps as a kid. I am VERY hyper. I also have bad allergies that I think cause part of it. I have tried all the OTC stuff Tylenol PM and everything else that says helps you sleep, I was awake ALL night! I tried the other home remedies and they didn't work. Now I take Ambien every night. Not much, I break one in half then break that in half so it's only about 3mg. But if I don't take it I don't sleep.
I've been having bad insomnia for the past couple weeks. And it's really starting to bug me.
It's rare for me. Usually once I climb into bed I lay there warming the sheets and letting the animals settle around me and then will often find myself thinking about different things, next thing I know it's morning.
But when I do have trouble and get restless, I've noticed that if the house is too warm, I'll wake up too warm even if I went to bed comfortably and that makes me uncomfortable and I get squirmy and wake up.
One of the things I've noticed is to play it like a kid would sometimes when I can't sleep...sleep somewhere your parents wouldn't have allowed it when you were a kid, like in front of the fireplace, or....
-Grab a nice comforter and stretch out on a couch you consider comfortable and just enjoy the departure from the norm. This usually puts me to sleep.
-Grab the same comforter and if your house has floor vents for heating, grab a pillow and stretch out on the floor with the blanket over the vent and enjoy the heat directly on your skin. Puts me right to sleep.
-Change your routine and go to bed early and lie in bed and read awhile and then let yourself forget the world and nap. You may wake up later of course, but you'll have also closed some of the sleep gap and you may feel more rested by the morning as you probably will fall asleep again in the late night.
I know others say don't drink water or coffee, etc. I do hate being awakened by having to pee, but coffee itself has no effect on me! Sometimes my cats will paw my face at 3am and that wakes me and they get hurled out of the bedroom and the door gets closed.
It's rare for me. Usually once I climb into bed I lay there warming the sheets and letting the animals settle around me and then will often find myself thinking about different things, next thing I know it's morning.
But when I do have trouble and get restless, I've noticed that if the house is too warm, I'll wake up too warm even if I went to bed comfortably and that makes me uncomfortable and I get squirmy and wake up.
One of the things I've noticed is to play it like a kid would sometimes when I can't sleep...sleep somewhere your parents wouldn't have allowed it when you were a kid, like in front of the fireplace, or....
-Grab a nice comforter and stretch out on a couch you consider comfortable and just enjoy the departure from the norm. This usually puts me to sleep.
-Grab the same comforter and if your house has floor vents for heating, grab a pillow and stretch out on the floor with the blanket over the vent and enjoy the heat directly on your skin. Puts me right to sleep.
-Change your routine and go to bed early and lie in bed and read awhile and then let yourself forget the world and nap. You may wake up later of course, but you'll have also closed some of the sleep gap and you may feel more rested by the morning as you probably will fall asleep again in the late night.
I know others say don't drink water or coffee, etc. I do hate being awakened by having to pee, but coffee itself has no effect on me! Sometimes my cats will paw my face at 3am and that wakes me and they get hurled out of the bedroom and the door gets closed.
It's next to impossible for me to sleep in the Winter...
Sometimes it gets too hot.. Then i get cold so I have to cover back up... Then I get too hot again... Then too cold...
That's why I like the summer. A nice fan breeze and I'm happy! Could sleep all day... But I likes the summer!
It's next to impossible for me to sleep in the Winter...
Sometimes it gets too hot.. Then i get cold so I have to cover back up... Then I get too hot again... Then too cold...
That's why I like the summer. A nice fan breeze and I'm happy! Could sleep all day... But I likes the summer!
Turn the thermostat down just before you go to bed, drop it to 62F. By the time you get too warm in bed, your house should compensate by having cooled off. Just keep the comforter handy where the subconscious/unconscious you can grab it in your sleep and pull it up if you get cold
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I have anxious episodes where I can't fall asleep because I'm thinking about dumb things (what if there's an earthquake in the next thirty seconds?). If I'm awake too long it's as if my body says, "Oh, I'm supposed to be awake!" and that's when the itchiness starts, and I'm either too hot or too cold. The covers are too twisted, but I'm too lazy to get up and remake the bed... I could go on and on. It's after 2:00 a.m., and I have to get up at 5:50 to be at work by 7:00. 
