Insomnia-Chronic

[blakeriede]

Does anybody have any suggestions to insomnia?

[firepoet]

Does anybody have any suggestions to insomnia?

No idea mate, I take zopliclone and even that doesn't help.

[weeme]

Does anybody have any suggestions to insomnia?

Sometimes insomnia is short term and easy to manage with the correct diet, sleep aides (herbal and pharmaceuticals), exersize etc.

The true insomniac suffers for years and even decades, sleeping pills may or may not help for the 1st day or two, and is usually very dehabilitating.

I have suffered for 42 years, I have been hospitalised and have even been on and off sleep therapy for about 5 years, been given mega doses of different sleeping pills. I have tried diet, exersize, meditation and even got up and done other chores instead of lying awake. Using the bedroom for sleep only and so the list goes on.

I have now started to realise that my brain is wired a different way and is hyperactive. I also am starting to think that I may have sleep apnea.
+/- 20 hours sleep a week is not a joke when you work 7 days a week but I now accept it. The longest I have been awake continuously is 175 hours and I woke up after 5 hours of sleep, tired but unable to sleep any longer.

I stopped taking medication in 1995 as it just made it harder to function the next day. I sometimes have a bit of valerian and if I am lucky it gives me an extra hour or two of sleep.

If you have health care insurance or medical aid it would be wise to have yourself checked out at a sleep clinic. Otherwise just relax and try to accept it.

I sit on the forums until one or two o'clock in the morning, then do sudoku's until about 3am. I get up around six in the morning and do chores until work at 8am.

Good luck.

[hobo]

A few ideas (if you haven´t already tried them :) ):

Avoid anything containing caffeine i.e. coffe, tea, chocolate, cola etc.

Avoid alkohol.

Before bedtime, drink a cup of varm milk with a tbl. spoon of ground poppy seeds.

Vigorous exercise (releases endorphines).

Melatonin supplements. Either capsules or try red grape-juice.

Good luck

[jeebles]

Have u tried brain entrainment? check out my sig

[truegroup]

Melatonin supplements

That will help no end.

The pineal gland in some people makes insufficient melatonin. This is what makes you drowsy and helps sleep.

Do you ever find yourself getting drowsy and sleeping at non bedtimes? If not, you should see your doc and get a simple melatonin prescription. It isn't a drug you need to worry about taking, it is a natural hormone.

[weeme]

Wow!

You guys are on the ball and I hope Blakeriede can be sorted out.

I often find that people say they are insomniacs and it turns out
they going to bed at inconsistant times, or were eating too late in
the evening, taking naps in the afternoon or something seemingly
innocent. It does play havoc with sleeping patterns.

A person shouldn't rush into taking sleeping pills before trying other
simpler things.

The last time I woke up feeling refreshed was in 1993 after being in
an artificially induced sleep for 8 days. Problem is it was done in a
goverment hospital, when they started talking about electro shock
therapy, I was out of there, against my doctor's wishes.
Was being treated for depression and insomnia.

Think I might try Jeebles Binaural Brain Entrainment. My brain is in
hyperactive drive the whole time. It is as if my body is too slow for
my brain and because of that I make lots of mistakes and I keep
having to recheck what I write or do.

Thanks guys

[jimj_wpg]

The last time I woke up feeling refreshed was in 1993 after being in an artificially induced sleep for 8 days. Problem is it was done in a government hospital, when they started talking about electro shock therapy, I was out of there, against my doctor's wishes. Was being treated for depression and insomnia.


Were you born within the Cancer astro sign?

Depression is one sign of the sign. Mine is June 23 so I tend to be prone to it, but that's because I'm me. And in my two last animal past lives I would be up past midnight, so I'm must a night owl. I accept that.

I see the world we live in and say "Yuck". But it's souls like myself who have chosen to incarnate at this time and now that I have a community who notice the same things that are Yuck then together we can find ways of waking the unawake and making progress in removing the Yuck from this planet. So I'm no longer depressed as I used to be.

Electro shock ? :eek::eek::eek::eek:
That would have me running out the door too.

In another thread some people have said that the problem is a low thyroid function (hypothyroid). The solution is an Iodine supplement of some sort - liquid or capsule form. Lugol's Iodine has been mentioned as well as another one.

http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showthread.php?t=108824&highlight=Lugol%27s

The constant chemtrails have something to do with it too. If it's heavy overcast for several days, and your body thinks it's night time but is 2 or 3 p.m. -- wouldn't you want to go to sleep too? One thing that has helped me was a halogen lamp at my desk at work. I have a "SAD light" at home - the bulb is Compact Fluorescent and apparently those are not good to be near (they contain mercury). Limit use to no more than 30 minutes per day.

I have also tried the mantra "I will have peaceful/undisturbed sleep, and will wake up feeling refreshed" - does work.

You could also have a Jinn/demon/your spirit guide who is waking you up. Tell him or her not to wake up up during the night, except in case of a true emergency - fire, etc...

[weeme]

Were you born within the Cancer astro sign?


No I am a Saggitarian and one of a twin.
Often I wonder about mkultra, but nah!

I don't recall missing time....but my memory
stinks.....heavy metals!

Never felt like other kids, always felt like a nerd.
Never really had any close friends. Felt I
could not trust people who were backstabbing
their own friends.

Before the internet I did not know what a
conspiracy was. I spent many nights reading
novels (trying to get through the night) realising
something is very off.

One good thing about insomnia is it let me find
out that I was not mad.......'all was not, as what
it had seemed to be'.

[jimj_wpg]

No I am a Saggitarian and one of a twin.
Often I wonder about mkultra, but nah!

No, I meant the OP.

[weeme]

No, I meant the OP.

Sorry but I saw you had quoted me.

I think everyone goes through periods of depression
because of personal problems, death of loved ones,
the general trauma that pop's up every once and a
while. Being on medication may then be a good idea.

If it is long term, where it is affecting your life it may
be wise to take a long hard look at yourself and your
lifestyle. Perhaps wind down a bit, move to the country
side. Simlify you lifestyle. Look at herbal teas and meds.

[firepoet]

That will help no end.

The pineal gland in some people makes insufficient melatonin. This is what makes you drowsy and helps sleep.

Do you ever find yourself getting drowsy and sleeping at non bedtimes? If not, you should see your doc and get a simple melatonin prescription. It isn't a drug you need to worry about taking, it is a natural hormone.

Wasn't aware of that truegroup, thanks for posting.

[dustbunny]

I have also been an insomniac for many years. Things that I have found useful have been visulising myself lying on a beach and have the surf running gently under me. I imagine the sea filling me with calm when it comes in and draining me of tension and stress when it goes out. It might not increase the length of sleep I get, but it helps calm my mind and helps get me off to sleep to start with. It helps to sincronize this with your breathing. I also always refuse to look at the clock when I wake up in the night as I always got so wound up at only getting a couple of hours sleep. Now I sometimes get back to sleep for a few hours more if I can stay calm. I also found that melatonin suppliments got me to sleep pretty well, but after 4 or 5 hours I was wide awake again. They are not available here in the UK, I got mine at a drug store when I was on holiday in California so you might not have to visit a doc for a prescription.

[merla]

Also an insomniac, just to add to the already stella advise; take a long hot bath before bed, it helps unwind any tension you've been storing up. Listen to quite, relaxing music or maybe a radio channel with plays or drama, I find I can zone out and drift off when things are being read out with a soft methodical voice (BBC 7 is a lifesaver on some nights). I also find doing something that distracts my mind for a while so I'm not lying in bed thinking in circles and restlessly turning over and flaling my arms and legs every five minutes helps. There's nothing worse than the anxiety cycle you can get into lying there knowing you can't get to sleep, just thinking about it makes it even harder to turn your conscious mind off.

[ufochick]

Does anybody have any suggestions to insomnia?

What kind? where you can't go to sleep? wake up every hour? wake early? you have any idea why? is your mind too busy? is there something you are afraid will happen? the need to protect someone? more info please :)

[blakeriede]

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