Help with going sleep?

[Fleurette]

On the topic of computers and getting to sleep, I also recommend F.lux, which is a nifty app that changes the color temperature of your display by time of day, so you're not staring at a midday-like display right before you go to bed.

Thanks! I just downloaded and it's pretty cute actually.
This might just help.
I've still been having so much trouble sleeping..
I think I should just super exercise for a million hours until my body gives up.

[kohl]

Melatonin is terrible. It worked the first time then it became useless.
No processed sugar at night would help.

Writing at 5:20am, can't sleep -.-

[Tef]

Nothing beats the insomniac feeling of jetlag. This is what a 15 hour time difference from a 12 hour flight would do to you. Kinda sucks when you have school in 3-4 days time with a biological clock calibrated to an Asian time.

[Sasha]

No processed sugar at night would help.

(recently I discovered [1] [2]) sugar does nothing to your energy level other than providing what starches or other foods containing carbohydrates (more energy than fats or proteins) give you. Sugar rush most likely a mind thing most of the time. But of course, eating things with energy at all at night not a good idea... maybe processing it keeps you up.

Melatonin is terrible. It worked the first time then it became useless.

I tried melatonin with no success too... second time it gave me a lucid nightmare oddly enough.

Various sleeping meds, all seem to pin me down, mind flutters on trying to ignore it - I find it odd, got off 'em soon after I tried each one.

Seems putting laptop away, reducing stimulus, and maybe watching at most a single show (no ongoing news channel) seems to work...at 3am I can just get to sleep within half an hour it seems now.

I think I should just super exercise for a million hours until my body gives up.

maybe not so good. I walk 10k each night as part of my tiger roamyness, I keep myself company and it seems very short, but it certainly helps me to think (blood pumping helps me process reality a bit better) and sleep soon after I come back.

Tiger.

[Fleurette]

(recently I discovered [1] [2]) sugar does nothing to your energy level other than providing what starches or other foods containing carbohydrates (more energy than fats or proteins) give you. Sugar rush most likely a mind thing most of the time. But of course, eating things with energy at all at night not a good idea... maybe processing it keeps you up.
I tried melatonin with no success too... second time it gave me a lucid nightmare oddly enough.

Various sleeping meds, all seem to pin me down, mind flutters on trying to ignore it - I find it odd, got off 'em soon after I tried each one.

Seems putting laptop away, reducing stimulus, and maybe watching at most a single show (no ongoing news channel) seems to work...at 3am I can just get to sleep within half an hour it seems now.
maybe not so good. I walk 10k each night as part of my tiger roamyness, I keep myself company and it seems very short, but it certainly helps me to think (blood pumping helps me process reality a bit better) and sleep soon after I come back.

Tiger.

Hrmm.. Thanks Tiger!
I suppose I'll just have to find a proper way to expel all of this energy..
This could be.. difficult. o.o;

[kohl]

I recently read from a health magazine that eating rice with dinner will help you fall asleep.

[tokar]

i suggested this awhile ago and challenge anyone to try it.  it works for me on most occasions.

believe it or not - try relaxing your tongue.  i mean relax it so that it is not pushing up on the roof of your mouth or against your teeth.  relaxing your tongue helps to relax the rest of you so you can get to sleep easier.  try it

it might take a few times tying but let me know if it works for you.

[Carl Foxmarten]

Wow, interesting idea Tokar, I'll give that a go sometime.

There was an episode of "What's That About" a while ago that talked about sleep, suggesting several methods for helping you get to sleep.
Among the ideas presented was having a hot bath right before bed, relaxing all your muscles (by alternately tightening then relaxing them), eating protein before bed (starch does the opposite, making you more alert), dimming the ambient light levels towards bed (which includes not using computers, TVs or other light-emitting screens before bed), as well as sticking to a routine.

Some time I've really got to try some of these... =>.>=