What do you do when you can't sleep?

I don't have trouble falling asleep... my issue is with waking wide awake around 4 hours after I go to sleep and it never changes... been like that for at least 20 years. So usually (yeah, yeah, I know it sounds weird) I count. I don't want to think, so I count and then I have to keep my focus on the numbers. I know how many seconds and minutes it is until 4 when I get up and I count the minutes away. (Never tried actual sheep šŸ‘ counting, but same concept, I guess.)
 
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Iā€™ve had terrible insomnia for years. I used to take melatonin and Benadryl but now I take a small dose gummie.

I listen to podcasts or ebooks and set the timer for about 15 minutes. That usually works. Otherwise Iā€™m just up the rest of the night and I play games on my phone or read.
 
I get up and wander around the house, read, talk to my cat, and talk to myself.

I donā€™t sleep well neither. I never have, and the time change always kicks my butt for weeks. šŸ„±Every thing I have tried over the decades has been a short temporary fix. I have followed all the so called ā€œexpertsā€ rules to getting a good nightā€™s sleep; supplements, different pillows, mattresses, cool rooms, drinking dark unsweetened cherry juice, going to bed and getting up the same time, etc., etc., etc. Bah! Those people donā€™t know anything! :rolleyes: My lack of sleep has gotten even worse since I have gotten older, as if that is even possible.
 
I listen to the radio, usually mellow jazz, but when I can't fall asleep, which is about half the time, I listen to calming podcasts that talk me thru relaxation to fall asleep. If none of this works, which is about half the time of all this I take a sleeping pill called Mirtazipine but don't like to take it too much bc when I do, it eventually won't work anymore.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Last night was a horrible night for me. I was wide awake at bedtime, and just could not fall asleep. When I did, I woke up an hour later-couldn't fall asleep. It was like that all night long.
What do you do on those night when you just can't fall asleep?
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Well, before I had to get off my Goldwing bike at eighty years-of-age, many times I would get up and ride the Honda through the sleeping small towns around me. I would conjure up imaginings as to the lives lived by certain people who lived in some of those darkened homes. It was relaxing and mindful of how many times I had left or returned to my own home in the dark. Our lives, my wife's and mine, were of the same playbook as those I wound past in those dark nights.

It felt nice to "belong".
 
Pepper said:
I couldn't hear or understand a word she said.
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:ROFLMAO:

In part at least, that's kind of the point. It isn't a podcast that might keep you awake trying to follow the "storyline."

I think it is supposed to be English with a whole lot of things folded in there such as Native American phrases, Hindi, Japanese, etc. In places chunks of Christian lore get dropped in, and for all I know other religious bits as well. Along with a lot of random vocalizations.

Think "Charlie Brown's adults talking" with a softer edge.
 
Marcy Sheiner said:
I listen to the radio, usually mellow jazz, but when I can't fall asleep, which is about half the time, I listen to calming podcasts that talk me thru relaxation to fall asleep. If none of this works, which is about half the time of all this I take a sleeping pill called Mirtazipine but don't like to take it too much bc when I do, it eventually won't work anymore.
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I forgot about sleeping podcasts or videos. They do work. I also agree with you about taking sleeping pills. Sure they will work at first but then you ā€˜needā€™ them to fall asleep the next night. Youā€™re best off not using them if you can.

Iā€™ve got dogs sleeping with me so if I canā€™t sleep, I wreck their sleep tossing and turning. Thatā€™s why I get up.
 
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