Insomnia

[Skybird]

Only when lack of sleep causes deficits in your daytime activity and gives you mental handicaps, it is considered to be insomnia, Letum, and maybe is worth to have a look at. I usually shut down the lights at 0230 or 0330, and raise a 0830. It is not insomnia, but a shifted sleep cycle. That can have psychological causes, too, but it must not be like that.

If you can arrange your life accordingly, I see no reason why you should think of it as a problem, practically or physically. The real disease is living to artificial rathms dictated by your clock. Eating when you are not hungry, but it is that and that time. Not being able to have a nap in the early afternoon, which normally most people's organism and physiology would demand, from a ceertain age on at the latest, and espcially if having had a noontime lunch.

Cats and dogs are much brighter than humans, concerning their living styles.

around 15% of the wetsern population is known to be so-called "owls", and another 15% are "larks". scientists doing research on sleep say that these people have "normally chnaged" day-and-night rythms, which cannot be chnaged and are not a question of habits, but predisposition.

P.S. Maybe you simply do not have enough work and exercise to become tired in the evening!

[Letum]

I would very much love to live to the dictates of my clock.
My employer less so.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Letum

I would very much love to live to the dictates of my clock.
My employer less so.

As I indicated, mothern life rythms are often unhealthy.

[FIREWALL]

Letum I'm going to read a gazillion posts after I post this but....

Take 1 tylenon pm an you will get rest you need with out the ???

It's safe and mellow.

I never recomend drugs over the counter or otherwise but' when your body's beat but your mind is wide awake. Take 1 not 2 as it says on the bottle will let you snooze safely if you don't have reactions to it,

I feel weird recomending this but I know how it feels when your tired and need the rest and can't sleep.

Wish you the best.

[Letum]

Doesn't look like thats avaliable over the counter in the UK.

I might try diphenhydramine hydrochloride (Benadryl/Dimedrol/Nytol/Unisom) instead,
that is over the counter and I have had a similar drug before so I know what it is like.

S' a shame to need something like that, but perhaps I will be able to figure out a
solution before too long.

[Chock]

Read the Adobe Photoshop manual chapter on color rendering engine selection. That's enough to put anyone to sleep.

More seriously, here's a good one to try: get some background music CDs, i.e new age/ambient type stuff, whale calls whatever, that will probably get you relaxed enough to go, failing that, get hold of a recording of a single tone, that usually works like the drone of an engine at a steady RPM does when it puts you to sleep, like it does on long aeroplane/train journeys and (somewhat dangerously) a car engine note when cruising on a motorway. You could also try altering the temperature in your house, I always find warmer temperature make people drowsy, which is why I knock the heating down a bit in training rooms when I am teaching people!

You are getting sleepy....

Chock

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Thats interesting, Letum. Reminds me a little of Sherlock Holmes, actually.

Anyway, I have been experiencing a major shift in my sleep patterns, and I dont think my body knows what to do with all the extra time its gotten. I used to have to get up somedays at 6:30 to be in to work on time, and the days were very busy.

Now my contract is up, I'm unemployed again and obviously have more time for sleep (pain in the ass trying to get work here if you dont drive) and over these couple of days I've been dozing off at 10pm and waking at 4am and I'm unable to get back to sleep. I did it again this morning, I woke at half 3 even after I had a great many beers the previous night

Give it some time, your bio-clock needs to adjust to what you're giving it. I wouldnt think serious medication is the answer just yet, maybe just dunk a sleeping pill When you REALLY cant stop your mind working. Things should fix themselves in time.

[HunterICX]

I had a unhealthy situation of getting into sleep,

worrying about stuff, thinking to much and cant stop with it, getting out of bed to check things like books ''are they in the right place?''

it tired me very much , is was hard to stay awake during the day.
eventually it turned me sick.
then like what chock mention I got myself soft New age and instrumental music
always a piano, dont know why, but it always touched me deeply.
changed my thinking and worrying for dreamy thoughts...
and eventually I fall asleep and wake up the next morning.

dont really need the music or dreamy thoughts anymore but it defintly helped me back in those days

HunterICX