Got Some Tips, See Ya All In The Morning!

[Paradise3]

I need tips to help me sleep better and fast! Hit me with tips! I need to get some sleep but I can't! I just can't! I've spent the last 2 nights sat in bed reading because I've only managed to get about 2 hours sleep altogether! Hit me!
Got some tips, If they don't work I'll just stick with what sleep I get.

Cheers,
Paradise<3!

 

[fluttermoth]

One of the things I've found most helpful is not to think about how much you need to get to sleep! That just makes you anxious and even less likely to go to sleep than you were before.

Much as it pains me to say it, reading doesn't help much either It's just too exciting for the mind I guess you could try reading something really dull, like 'War and Peace'

I do little mind games to help me sleep. Go through the alphabet doing dog breeds or fish species or whatever you like, so think of one beginning with 'A', then one beginning with 'B' (Apistogramma, betta, chocolate cichlid (oooh, bonus point for a 'double 'c'!), danio etc). Or you could think of every fish beginning with a particular letter (severum, silver shark, sailfin plec etc). Or the longest sentence you can make using only one letter (Auntie Anne's alligators always argue about armadillos and aardvarks)

Helps me anyway; best of luck; insomnia is a total pig

 

[Paradise3]

Yep I hate insomnia. I know I shouldn't read but once I wake up, I can't get back to sleep no matter how tired I am. Thank you for the tip, I'll try that. I have to go to bed whether I sleep or not. I don't think about sleep, I think about fish most of the time.

Cheers,
Paradise<3!

 

[notg2009]

I need tips to help me sleep better and fast! Hit me with tips! I need to get some sleep but I can't! I just can't! I've spent the last 2 nights sat in bed reading because I've only managed to get about 2 hours sleep altogether! Hit me!
Got some tips, If they don't work I'll just stick with what sleep I get.

Cheers,
Paradise<3!

Hi there,

I don't want to sound rude, but the amount of sleep that you need and how easy it is for you to actually fall asleep is correlated with your age. Sometimes sleeping aids are required. I have sometimes tried MELATONIN as a sleep aid, and it has helped me to some extent. It is the natural hormone in the body that promote sleep; you might want to talk to your doc and see if it will help you. As for reading, no matter how exciting or boring an article is, I fall asleep after reading a certain amount of pages

 

[markandhisfish]

brandy always helps

 

[Baccus]

Try doing a mind/ body relaxation exercise. Get comfortable, close your eyes and imagine your entire body is filled with little light bulbs and starting at your toes start imagining these light bulbs dimming and slowly going out continue doing this through your feet and up your legs, all the while allow your muscles to relax, don't rush it and continue to take deep relaxing breaths, you should start to feel your muscles wanting to relax before you even get to them, ignore the heart and lung area but continue switching out the lights in your fingers and hands, bet you can't actually make it too your brain before your asleep.
If that doesn't work try imagining that you are on a beautiful tropical beach lazing in the warm sun and can hear the gentle rymthic swish of gentle waves washing on the beach.
And if all else fails my husband is GAURENTEED to fall asleep "watching" car racing. Well he says he was watching it but the loud snores escaping him prove him wrong

And even though it sounds hokey a glass of warm milk does make you drowsy, the heating of the milk (but not actually boiling it) changes the chemical composition and helps your body release "relax" hormones.
Just a wayward thought....since you have fish and watching fish swimming, birds flying and or patting a cat or dog are all suposed to relax and reduce heart beats try just staring at your fish for a while before going to bed. Just watch them in a semi detached mode rather than worrying about their food, cleaning the tank, rearranging it or any of the other activities surrounding keeping fish, just watch them in a peaceful state of mind and see how that goes.
Good ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

 

[Paradise3]

I tried the whole alphabet thing that fluttermoth suggested, the one where you name a fish that begins with each letter of the alphabet. I fell asleep at H, that shows just how much I needed sleep. I still woke up at around 2 though so only about 1 hours sleep last night.

Cheers,
Paradise<3!