Insomnia/Can’t Sleep

[blueboss]

History Channel has a series History’s Greatest Mysteries narrated by Lawrence Fishburne. I’ve recorded the last two episodes which are about Roswell, I find the content very interesting, but I can’t make it through 30 minutes of it without falling asleep. It has taken me forever to make it through both episodes.

I think it’s Fishburne’s voice, you might give it a try. There’s another episode on Saturday at 9:00 pm


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[blueboss]

It’s going on 3:00 am ugh!! Watching golf....


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[blueboss]

Hello darkness my old friend ~ Paul Simon

How’s everybody been sleeping? Top of the 5th out in LA, looks like I’ll be up watching for a while.


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[Darrell KSR]

Not great. Planning on going to bed tonight in about 2 hours in the hopes of being able to sleep longer stretches.

[Darrell KSR]

Interestingly, I just started reading the thread over again and saw that I had a reference to an app called Twilight. I do not have that app now and had forgotten about it. I went to the Google Play Store and found it has over 10 million downloads and it is now a 4.7 star rating app. I may have to download it again.

[CitizenBBN]

I go to sleep OK. I just wake up over and over and over.

Anyone else nearly always wake up 15-30 minutes prior to their alarm going off? I have a clock in my head that, if I tell myself when I have to get up, I always wake up just prior.

On vacations when I have no need to keep time and I'm relaxed, I can usually tell you the time of day within 10 minutes all day and night without looking at my watch. It's just ticking in my head and I think about it from my last known time and i'm usually that close.

I don't think that's a good thing, and I know waking up 5-6 times a night is not good.

[Darrell KSR]

As most of my friends here know, I work for myself and can set my own schedule. I typically will not make any appointments before 10:00 a.m. because occasionally I will wake up at 3-4:00 a.m. or so, and be awake for 2 or 3 hours, and go back to sleep at 6 or 7:00 a.m. that gives me a couple more hours to sleep and I usually wake up fine if that's the case. It's not ideal, but I often will get up and do work when I wake up in the middle of the night, so it all works out.

[CitizenBBN]

When I took over the auction biz I set 10am as starting time. that lasted very few weeks b/c everyone else wants to get in and get to it early and go home. Since I wasn't going home before 9 or 10 at night anyway I didn't really care about working a little longer.

Anyway I lost. So we start at 9am. It hurts at times b/c I'm up till 1 or 2 working routinely, then wake up usually at least a couple of times for 15-20 minutes before I can get back to sleep.

FWIW those who wanted 8am also lost. I'll just go dig ditches first.

[blueboss]

I go to sleep OK. I just wake up over and over and over.

Anyone else nearly always wake up 15-30 minutes prior to their alarm going off? I have a clock in my head that, if I tell myself when I have to get up, I always wake up just prior.

On vacations when I have no need to keep time and I'm relaxed, I can usually tell you the time of day within 10 minutes all day and night without looking at my watch. It's just ticking in my head and I think about it from my last known time and i'm usually that close.

I don't think that's a good thing, and I know waking up 5-6 times a night is not good.

I’ve got the internal clock syndrome as well. If I have an earlier than normal start event going on I usually wake up thirty minutes before alarm.

For instance, I had to attend a conference in Indy on Wednesday that had an 8:00 start time. I set alarm for 5:00 to get up and get ready for the two hour drive to the conference location. I woke up at 4:30 thinking I didn’t want to oversleep. So then I go into semi sleep mode for next thirty minutes. Plus knowing I had to get up at five, I’m guessing the average person would go to bed earlier, my earlier was 11:30 instead of around 12:30/1:00.

I do get an hour or so of extra sleep in the recliner usually between 10:00/11:00 pm while watching a game or some other non thought provoking television.


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[blueboss]

Solaray Sleep-Blend SP-17, which I get at the Rainbow Blossom store from the hippie chic, helps turn off the mind scramble and provides light relaxation to help promote sleep.

It’s all all herbal with no melatonin additives, it has valerian root and other herbs which help promote relaxation…they seem to work pretty well but don’t actually knock you out like sleeping pills…


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[BigBluePappy]

2:15 am 'til 4:50 am this morning. Got a lot of reading done. Now to see if I can grab a couple of quick hours before soccer this morning with my oldest great grandson...

[blueboss]

3:12 am… just can’t sleep.


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[blueboss]

Me and some PBS on the DVR, Nature, The Great Wildebeest Migration.


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[blueboss]

Hello darkness my old friend… 3:00 Am


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[KentuckyWildcat]

Hello darkness my old friend… 3:00 Am


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3:20 here


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[Darrell KSR]

I have not had insomnia trouble in a long time. My fix is exercise during the day, bedtime at midnight or later, and that generally gets me 6+ uninterrupted hours of sleep.

I am also taking magnesium glycinate at night. I was taking it because I have these awful muscle spasms in my legs and toes. It used to happen 3-5 times a week after I went to bed.

Now, never happens (knocking on wood). Haven't had muscle cramps in months. I don't know if it is also helping with sleep, which it is supposed to do, but if so, that's just a side benefit!

[Catfan73]

If I get a cramp I take a swig of juice from a jar of Claussen pickles and they go away almost immediately. Sometimes I’ll even eat a pickle.

[Darrell KSR]

If I get a cramp I take a swig of juice from a jar of Claussen pickles and they go away almost immediately. Sometimes I’ll even eat a pickle.

Mine hits while I'm sleeping at 3 a.m. and odd times. Mrs. C. might wonder what I'm doing in the bedroom with a jar of pickles...wait...stop that.

[BigBluePappy]

If I get a cramp I take a swig of juice from a jar of Claussen pickles and they go away almost immediately. Sometimes I’ll even eat a pickle.

Same here Catfan...

[Catfan73]

Mine hits while I'm sleeping at 3 a.m. and odd times. Mrs. C. might wonder what I'm doing in the bedroom with a jar of pickles...wait...stop that.

Three words: bedside mini fridge.

[blueboss]

I was up at 4:00 am this morning, I did make it back to sleep around 5:ish.


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[Darrell KSR]

Three words: bedside mini fridge.

In all seriousness, I've tried everything, and pickle juice--even some specially bought sports pickle juice--just doesn't work for me. Have noticed no difference in the length of the cramps, which go on for several minutes, with or without.

The beauty of the magnesium glycinate (apparently) is that it PREVENTS the cramps from appearing in the first place. I ran 4 miles Saturday and played basketball continuously from 7pm to 9:30 pm last night (well, with breaks between pickup games. I got lucky and was on a good team, and we never sat out, so I played every game). In the past, that would be a near guaranteed leg cramps after midnight in bed, or at least toe cramps. No issues. Apparently, I just have a magnesium deficit otherwise, I guess.

[CGWildcat]

I haven't read all thru this thread, but I'll add, magnesium gummies have worked wonders for me over the last year. 2-3 before bed and I'm out in a few minutes, occasionally wake up middle of night but turn over and I'm out again.