Well my night just went to hell twice and I cant sleep. I have been trying for hours…
Does anyone have any ideas on how i can numb myself enough or force myself to pass out so i can get some rest for my first day of finals week tomorrow.
That doesn’t involve alcohol, me staring at the ceiling for god knows how long ( already tried that) or would have me end up in the E.R. or the nut house (which is the last place i need to be)
Feel free to comment them below.
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benedryl is a safe way to bring on the drowsies … a couple take a couple then in about a half hour of resting without distraction you should doze off … I wouldn’t recommend more than 4 or 5
Snooze dawg
Holy shit, what’s up Dawg?
Hey Wolf 🙂
Good to see a familiar name … just been busy trying to survive – hope all is well with you my old friend 🙂
archaic dawg
you sound like you’re in your head to much, you need to just focus on your breathing for 30 minutes and realize that no situation is as bad as it seems. once you’re calm you can get some sleep but you should have an easier time sleeping. for future issues you can talk to your doctor about anti-anxiety or anti-depressents (usually SSRI’s) that have a hypnotic effect (medical term for sleep inducing)
Sometimes reading (but without too much light, since that tends to wake you up…) helps to slip into sleep. Or chamomile tea, if you have it.
First off, you gotta go to sleep at the same time every evening. It takes time for your body to get into a regular sleeping pattern, and even then, you need to correct it a bit, because your body has slightly more than 24 hours in a day.
Use an alarm clock to get to bed on time, but ditch it in the morning if at all possible. Wake up when you wake up.
I would focus on rest rather than sleep. The important thing is really that you take a break from work, including entertainment (still taxing on mind/body), and especially screens. If you want to make yourself drowsy, do boring stuff like folding clothes (but no screens) or reading a super boring book. Or close hour eyes and do the 4-7-8 breathing exercise (google it). Don’t look at the ceiling.
Good luck on your finals.
good suggestions have been made above
you can also try while you lie on your back in bed, to tense/flex your muscles, 1 by 1, really really hard, as much as you can
starting at the toes, feet, left+right side at the same time, you “push” with your muscles so hard you can for 30seconds at a time on each section/muscle group, moving up, ankles, lower leg muscles, front+backside, push push/flex/tens, moving up to the thighs, , abdomen, chest, fingers, hands, wrist/lower arm, upper arms, shoulders, neck, cheek/jaw, eyes, brow, forehead
and then you finish with all of them at once at the same time for a good 30-45secs, just pushing/flexing/tensing all your muscles so incredible hard you feel like you’re running out of breath
Good advice. Afterwards, the muscles will relax.
was a relaxation technique I was taught when I was younger, I’m just uncertain if i translate it proper to make head and tails of it
it can be quite effective when it works, but not a guarantee to work 100% every time, but then again, what is,
at least it only takes a few minutes so not much is wasted, as long as one can muster up the energy/effort to begin with
It is easier to tense all muscles at once. Just gotta feel what it is like, then you will know what relaxing them is like.
might be easier to tense all muscles at once, but it’s more effective to start doing them individually
sorta like the breathing meditation,
the intense action you apply to focus on your individual muscle group can take focus away from other things stressing in the head, along with the relaxing muscle exertion
culminating in the final “tense all muscles at once” for that final exhausting release, physical, and maybe even mental.
but yea, do what’s best/easiest to one self, tensing all at once is by no means a bad place to start
To add to several good suggestions above:
Meditation might help or vigorous exercise. There are a bunch of relaxation videos on YouTube and even a few on Netflix – things like rainfall, ocean sounds, trains, soft music, singing bowls, crackling fireplace, etc.
I own a singing bowl that helps a little and I know some people who use weed for sleep.
Hot bath or shower. Sex or masturbation. Warm milk. Clean sheets. Dark room. Peace and quiet. White noise. A boring book.
TYLENOL PM works for me, usually.