What do you do when you cant sleep at night?
Sometimes on nights like tonight, I cant sleep. I have run out of source material to help put my brain at ease, so I come on here to ask ya’ll what you do when you cant sleep.
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Sometimes on nights like tonight, I cant sleep. I have run out of source material to help put my brain at ease, so I come on here to ask ya’ll what you do when you cant sleep.
Every night rosey. There is a lot of other nature sounds that help as well. I first started with these to drown out a neighbors dog barking why I sleep, now I love it, and I bet my neighbor loves it that I don't open my window every morning like the 4 non blonds and scream at the top of my lungs
"shut ya fucking dogs up"
I have very specific criteria for day dream content. When a story I have been thinking of runs is course and catches up to to a day where I have not consumed any media worthy of emulating in a story, my brain then tries to think of something to put me at ease and fall asleep. That constant thinking and searching for a “new idea” is what keeps me up at night.
What I usually do is stay up reading forums like this one, then suddenly become overwhelmingly tired at the exact moment it becomes clear that I need to stay up or I'll sleep through my alarm.
What I do if I'm damned serious about getting to bed is take a half dose of Benadryl, drink a beer, read something on my black & white Kindle (because video screens apparently fuck up your sleep patterns), and put on some William Basinski or Robert Rich.
From what I hear from people, the solution is to always go to bed and wake up at the same time, even on the weekends. it takes time but everyone i know who has done this has said that they finally get good sleep. Your body likes consistency, If you're always changing it up, it seems as if it makes it much more difficult.
When I can't sleep, I have 2 glasses of whiskey (More during bad times). A fast one and one I enjoy. Then I go to bed and think about restoring my old 6-series, or my broken S600.
Or I think of sci-fi concept vehicles. It could be anything. A futuristic airplane, or a submarine, spaceship, exploration vehicle...
Thinking about the brilliance of technology relaxes me and lets me fall asleep easier.