What Do You Do When You Can't Sleep?

I do the house chores since house chores feels like never ending, so there is always something to be done usually, I will get tired after doing it for two hours and in the morning, I give my self extra time to sleep since I had done some of the house chores earlier

Eat 2 to 3 hours before go to bed. Dont take more caffine. Always go to bed at the same time. If you are sleeping or not do it regularly. Dont do any thing on the bed. Keep it only to sleep.

I have had my times where I cannot sleep as well. I would usually just lie on my back and not get up. I will also pick up my phone and see if. I can have some hands games on and play until I get tired. Usually that would do the trick since I am not a gamer and games bore me. Haha

When I can't sleep, I play really soft, calming music and try to clear my mind. The calming music is really helpful and it's said that it helps your brain relax as well. So when you wake up, you feel quite refreshed.

If I cannot sleep I will watch TV, read book or surf net. Usually I will try to read, it will make me sleepy after a while and then I will drift off to sleep.

I usually read a book if I cannot sleep, somehow this help me dose off. But really when your adrenaline is really up, its pretty hard to go to sleep even if you did read already, check your emails, etc. I had that experience just this weekend due to overwhelming news that I got. I wasn't able to go to sleep until 2A.M. and was up at around 4:30AM, tried to go back to sleep but I can't. So I get up and ate my early breakfast, eat some banana and afterwards, I think the banana calm me down and was able to sleep during much of the day.

I will watch television and browse internet indefinitely and peek through all kinds of websites and making comments or call some friends and talk to them if they also don't get sleep, may be at least we can bore them by calling and simply talking about nothing :)

I love to watch farm animals, I'm Vegan and it really calms me down or to read. The movement of moving the eyes makes them tired and it's easier to sleep. Two things you should avoid before to sleep: to eat and to get up :D

Just like what you do, most of the time I played games I drink milk. Most of the time I have little sleep because work starts at 8am. I just take some food supplement to overcome tiredness while at work.

I will read my lesson books / textbooks. And well, usually I will easily go sleepy when I read that

if i am not able to sleep i just quit ........get out of bed and play some video games or watch a movie ........and then fall asleep on the couch itself

Plying games especially a chess game against computer is very affective to me.Besides hearing nostalgic music in low volume in the silence of the night,try to write down about the first time incidents even from the childhood that exist in memory etc. Trying to recollect the first incident of life that one has in memory takes a lot of boredom away.

Some times when I feel myself hooking up in such a situation, I use to memorize my school days, how much I used to enjoy my school days, then after sometime I find myself feeling really relaxed and then I can sleep very well. You must also do such kind of things to burn the stress out of your mind.

Hi Zamara69, When i restless at night I always read e-books ,or check my email by phone.but i have never play computer-games.Sometimes i was frigtened by nightmare,so i had to watch TV by myself and food food to eat.Haha.

Sounds like me. When my husband was on vacation I found myself going to bed earlier and watching tv up there and taking my sleeping med earlier. I have admit I slept so much better, but awake earlier because I took my medication earlier. Unfortunately I am not as comfortable in bed when my husband is there (he works shift work so there are times when I sleep alone). I think maybe we need a king sized bed and more pillows. LOL! I will read when I have trouble sleeping, then I will look at the clock and it's 3am and I can't believe I haven't dozed off yet - and I take sleep meds. Mind you, I think the beginning of menopause is playing a role. I will not go back on the computer though. Once I turn it off for the night I'm done. I spend so much time on here that I don't get much reading done so I would rather read in bed. It usually helps me doze off, but sometimes not.

I came to this discussion to read about solutions to sleeplessness at night but it seems many of us have the same problem and we do the thing when we can't sleep; that is go online, read a book, listen to the ipod etc, etc. But that still doesn't make me sleep earlier. Oh well I guess I have to live with it.

yes i have insomnia but when i did not got to sleep i read all book or surf internet so. this is my pastime in night when i did not sleep. my friend tell me to drink sleeping pills but i hate that medicine maybe this well affect in my health and also in my skin.

I do something to relax, put on the ipod with my favorite music, read funny stories or just concentrate on my breathing making sure to breath in through my nose and out through the mouth. The last one done slowly is so boring you would be sure to drop off as long as you keep concentrating and don't think of anything else. Watching the TV is tempting but it stimulates the brain and keeps you awake longer.

I really hate having difficulty starting to sleep at night. Thats why i tried to find ways in order to relieve this problem. I see to it that i drink warm milk before going to bed. I dont take sleeping aids coz i dont want my body to depend on it, instead when i lay down on bed il start listening to mellow music. Thats my sleeping pill.

Well, what i do when i can't sleep is just here,going out watching tv,and others reading Bible and others.. or nothing just to rest..