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Fruits of the sea
Dec 1, 2010

I'm super jealous of people who can just fall asleep. I've gradually figured out that I'm just not very good at recognizing when I need to sleep - I can spend half a night tossing and turning, while other times I'll lie down for a rest after dinner thinking I'm totally awake and suddenly wake up 8 hours later, fully clothed.

Things that have helped me:
-Getting everything ready for bed ahead of time. If the urge to sleep comes, I'll drop everything and do it. If I have to get up to brush my teeth, I'll start doing something and stay awake for another couple hours.
-Cutting down on alchohol increased the quality of my sleep a hundredfold.
-Not working nights
-Reading books and articles that are only a little interesting. If it's a proper page turner, it'll keep me up.

Every couple weeks there's a night where or two where I just can't sleep. Anxiety probably, but there's only so much that can be done - life is never stress free.

Good luck OP!

E: Melatonin helps reset my sleep schedule, but it's very dose dependent. Usually half a pill is right, too much and my sleep cycle gets all screwy and I wake up/pass out like 10 times in a night. Seen the same result in friends, the dosage depends on body weight, I think.

Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Oct 18, 2020

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