It's 1:37am. Tell me what you do when you can't sleep

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I’m on here and I’m listening to nature sounds with my ear buds. I’m wanting very badly to eat but holding off for now. I’m pretty sure that’s why I’m awake. I sure could also use a coffee.

What do you do?

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I read a couple of chapters of a book. I’m back reading after a 16 year hiatus of reading daily due to the sz. If I’m having trouble sleeping I get up and walk around a couple of steps and turn around. Cats and dogs do it all the time and they are smarter than most humans.

Helping sleep…I always like white noise or a radio. Cricket is the greatest thing to listen to going to sleep but a decent radio station is great. If it’s too busy…jam it just off a channel so your hearing static. That can be very soothing.

If that all fails…I love desk fans. Depends on your climate but that drone from a desk fan can soothe the mind. These days on zyprexa I sleep like a trooper…but suffered from insomnia for years and years!

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Wonder if I could get zyprexa

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I get out the most boring, tedious task (filing papers,sorting mail, reading the entire bill-front to back-small print too) and drag it all into a giant pile of “To Do” then proceed.
It takes about 20 minutes of shifting all this stuff around before my eyes glaze over and my eyelids feel 10 pounds heavier, and I can’t get back to bed fast enough before falling fast asleep.

Food nor coffee has ever kept me awake, in fact, if I don’t eat a bit of something before bed, I wake up hungry and find myself rooting in the fridge because I won’t sleep until I do.

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Listen to music mainly.

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I usually toss and turn overthinking until 5AM… if I really want to sleep though I put on some subbed anime, the Japanese is soothing to me and reading the subtitles eventually makes my eyes heavy. Zzzzz

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I try not to go out for a smoke when I’m unable to sleep, I find once I do that I’m up for a lot longer then if I just stayed in bed trying to sleep.

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I do deep, slow controlled breathing and focus on that until I’m sleepy.

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When I can’t sleep, I stay up and don’t worry about it. I just sleep whenever I can.

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I slept a bit during the day today