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your mind keeps working when you just get off a computer, go read a book, or watch some REAL boring TV show and it'll do the trick. Or do like 3 sets of 10 pushups
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wont pushups increase your heart rate and make it harder?
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its easier to sleep after physical exercise. thats why jackin' off and other exercises like pushups (as caucasian said) and crunches or w/e are natural sleep aids, although you don't want to get too sweaty that you sleep all wet...
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actually computer screen does cause insomnia to some extend.
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using the computer and watching tv keep u up
unless ur reading teamliquid blogs
another good way to sleep is to take a shower
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United States24773 Posts
On August 28 2008 14:01 CaucasianAsian wrote:
your mind keeps working when you just get off a computer, go read a book, or watch some REAL boring TV show and it'll do the trick. Or do like 3 sets of 10 pushups
I tried using reading to put me to sleep. In a couple of weeks I was a master of the US Constitution. Failure.
On August 28 2008 14:04 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
wont pushups increase your heart rate and make it harder?
Probably, I don't think exercise will work.
On August 28 2008 14:06 Superiorwolf wrote:
its easier to sleep after physical exercise. thats why jackin' off and other exercises like pushups (as caucasian said) and crunches or w/e are natural sleep aids, although you don't want to get too sweaty that you sleep all wet...
Haven't had luck with this (I've tried it in the past).
On August 28 2008 14:07 XCetron wrote:
actually computer screen does cause insomnia to some extend.
Yeah ._.
On August 28 2008 14:08 Caller wrote:
using the computer and watching tv keep u up
unless ur reading teamliquid blogs
another good way to sleep is to take a shower
I hate getting in bed when I'm at all wet, and by the time I'm 100% dry any therapeutic advantages of worn off :-/
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Showers actually make me more awake lol. I like to read boring books to fall asleep. Like one time in 10th grade I think, I had to read A Tale of Two Cities and I would fall asleep every single time I tried to finish that book..
Edit: Oh reading doesn't work huh.. Hm, have you tried falling asleep with some slow songs?
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ya, directly after a shower your hair is all wet and stuff and no one wants to take the time to use a hair dryer or anything, just a towel or something...
maybe u should go see a doctor, possibly sleep apnea if you also feel tired when you wake up my friend had it and almost DIED.
DIED
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My whole family must have insomnia or something, a 4 year old not sleeping until it's past midnight can't be right. Every night for the past week the earliest anyone has slept is 3am.
I usually do some exercise before taking a shower, then some reading makes me really sleepy. I've been staying up late recently because I don't have any books and I've been slacking on the exercise.
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On August 28 2008 14:14 Superiorwolf wrote:
ya, directly after a shower your hair is all wet and stuff and no one wants to take the time to use a hair dryer or anything, just a towel or something...
maybe u should go see a doctor, possibly sleep apnea if you also feel tired when you wake up my friend had it and almost DIED.
DIED
I have mentioned this to my doctors in the past, and never got an answer that helped. Perhaps I'll be more forceful next time.
Edit: trying to sleep again ._.
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On August 28 2008 14:20 CommanderFluffy wrote:
play iccup
If only that were true
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Computer screens are bright and they simulate daylight, so it throws your mind off and you cant sleep afterwards because you are now awake.
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you're probably just not tired when you try and go to sleep. too much stimulis i guess also would prevent you from sleeping, but for myself that's not true. i can be on the computer for hours, but as long as i am tired enough i can go to sleep within 10minutes. if im not tired enough i can't sleep.
my only suggestion is when you think you're tired and want to sleep, stay up longer. even if you get less sleep than you're used too it may help. that's the only thing that helps me, excercise does nothing, reading i do to fall asleep but i usually read for three hours before i'm tired enough, taking a shower is how i wake up, not sleep.
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On August 28 2008 14:15 stanley_ wrote:
read the dictionary.
i'd rather die
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United States24773 Posts
On August 28 2008 14:35 xDark.Carnivalx wrote:
my only suggestion is when you think you're tired and want to sleep, stay up longer. even if you get less sleep than you're used too it may help. that's the only thing that helps me, excercise does nothing, reading i do to fall asleep but i usually read for three hours before i'm tired enough, taking a shower is how i wake up, not sleep.
This is what I usually end up doing, but it becomes harder and harder to tell if I would be sleeping if I tried at the very moment.
I think I just have to convince my doctor to let me see a sleep specialist, if not solely based on the fact that I've probably nearly died during morning/afternoon commutes several times in the last year.
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If you think it's super serious I'd recommend seeing a doctor...
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On August 28 2008 14:53 thunk wrote:
If you think it's super serious I'd recommend seeing a doctor...
I've brought it up with my doctor virtually ever visit since middle school and they've never gone beyond providing advice... and my parents were similar... so I think subconsciously I've never felt qualified to go to a higher level of medical treatment. However, I probably need it and need to be more convincing with my general practitioner.
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Try to make a schedule/routine. Try not to go on the comp/tv 30 min 1 hour before you sleep. And exercise does help a lot. Not like stretches or dumbbells but like working out or jogging/jump ropes.
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On August 28 2008 14:57 micronesia wrote:Show nested quote +On August 28 2008 14:53 thunk wrote:
If you think it's super serious I'd recommend seeing a doctor... I've brought it up with my doctor virtually ever visit since middle school and they've never gone beyond providing advice...
probably cuz it's a common complaint but it's also common for teenagers to not take the proper measures for it. if you look up all the advice on the net about how to get a good sleep schedule going, and try all of it, and tell your doctor in a serious tone everything you have tried, then he'd probably care more. sleep/wake same time every day. no excessive caffeine or late afternoon++ caffeine. regular exercise. pre-sleep routine. bright light while awake, dim light only for sleep time. etc etc etc. do it all strictly for a couple weeks and if you still have problems, then medication is a consideration
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