Trouble Sleeping
As long as I can remember, I have been able to sleep just a few minutes after my head hits the pillow at night. I can stay up later, to read for example, but I don’t structure my life that way anymore and I rarely do so.
In the last three months, however, I am having trouble sleeping at least 1 or 2 nights a week, sometimes 4 or 5, and I don’t know why. I’m physically tired, and I can “turn my brain off” when I am ready to sleep, but it just doesn’t come. After lying in the dark for 15 minutes, the brain starts to run, obviously, and it snowballs from there.
So I would guess there is something in my life that is bothering me that I am not tapping into. Trouble is, just about everything bothers me.
24. April 2008 at 14:32
All through my twenties, I had insomnia. Sleeping 6 hours was a good night. 4 was standard.
Most nights, I just read through the sleeplessness.
I did find an unusual cure though: David Lynch’s version of Dune. Knocks me out every time. I’ve never seen the entire film. The sci-fi mini-series put me to sleep too, but I only tried to watch it once. David Lynch’s version I’ve tried to watch 6-7 times.
It’s actually more of a narcoleptic trigger than a cure for insomnia. No matter how I feel when I sit down to watch it, I’m asleep in 20 minutes or less. Fantastic!
25. April 2008 at 20:12
Working it out has never worked for me. I focus to well, especially late at night. So if I tried to “Halo” through it, I would finally get tired around 5AM, but if I just lay on the couch, I will eventually fall asleep around 2 or 3AM. So the math goes to lie there doing nothing.