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I must stop killing myself with the not-sleeping. It makes me crabby. And a wee bit neurotic.
What do you do when you can’t sleep?
Posted by Melissa on March 16th, 2006 under BlissI must stop killing myself with the not-sleeping. It makes me crabby. And a wee bit neurotic.
What do you do when you can’t sleep?
Posted by Melissa on March 16th, 2006 under Bliss
March 16th, 2006 at 6:23 am
Yoga, esp. the breathing. Lie on your back with your legs stretched out and your palms up. Breathe in counting to ten or twenty; breathe out counting to ten or twenty. (The number depends on your capacity.) Make sure you take the full count to breathe in, and then the full count to breathe out. Starting at the top of your scalp, consciously relax every tiny muscle while you breathe.
As you do this each night, gently push yourself to make each breath — and each breath out — as slow as you can. With practice, at some point you can stop counting.
I’ve been doing this since 7th grade when I took my first yoga class (in California, of course). It really works. I’m usually asleep by the time I reach the muscles in my chest.
March 16th, 2006 at 11:54 am
I go for the drugs every time. Yeah, that’s pretty much it. Tylenol PM. Unisom makes me feel hungover and extremely tired in the a.m. Or Benadryl as I have allergies too.
I used to have some great migraine preventatives that left me so loopy I’d have to take them right before bed. If I waited to go to bed more than 10 minutes after taking them, I’d have to crawl up the stairs because I couldn’t walk straight. But I stopped because we wanted a baby and the drug isnt’ kind to a developing fetus.
Good luck though…. Just no caffine after 4 or 5 p.m. and take a brisk stroll at some point in your day. I seem to sleep better when I exercise regularly.
March 16th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
I got for the drugs too. Tylenol PM is the greatest invention!
March 16th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
If you remember back to your art history schoolin’, a warm room, dim lighting, and the soothing hum of a slide projector is the perfect recipie for a coma. Can you borrow a projector from SLAM?
March 16th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
Oh, thank you, thank you all! I had just about gone batty trying to think of how to fall the fuck asleep. Tylenol PM and yoga tonight.
And yes, Theresa, oh my god. All I probably need is a cd playing the sound of a slide projector hum near my bed.
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