How can you fall asleep?

[wsjb78]

last night I just couldn't fall asleep and I just wondered what positions other people use to fall asleep.

Normally I lay on the belly and head turned to my left. My left arm is under the pillow.

The next best option for me is head turned to my right with the right arm under my pillow.

Then sleeping on any side!

The position I cannot fall asleep at all is when I lay on my back. At the hospital when I've broken my arm but wasn't operated yet and had to stay the night over, they normally put you on your back. To fall asleep I have then totally turned myself, rolled on my broken arm (well, the wrist was broken) and fell asleep that way... :)
The next morning my whole arm was numb. Probably not a bad thing before the OPs since I hate needles!

[Funbrunette]

I'm the wrong person to ask...these last few months I haven't been able to sleep very well! It must be the belly...lol And I share my bed with a certain person who SNORES like mad!!! :bonk:

try to go to bed when you're exhausted that may help...Sex before going to sleep can also be great for a good night sleep! ;)

[pornodoggy]

I'm also not the person to ask about this ... my "commute" from office to bedroom is about 20 feet, and I work (or watch television) until I'm ready to fall asleep where I am. If I try to force myself to go to sleep before that I sleep "hard" for 2-3 hours and then get up and can't go back to sleep.

I am always on my left side, arm under the pillow.

[Feynman]

Staying in front of the monitor or the boob tube before sleep is really bad.

The high-intensity bluish light (most monitors are set by default around 9000 degrees K color temperature) makes your reptilian brain think it's morning or daylight and screws-up with your melatonin cycle (the brain juice that makes you feel sleepy)

Reading before bed helps me sleep easier and better. Watching tubes is highly stimulating (lights, moving objects, etc).

So get to bed and read.

I put a folded towel neatly folded on my left side and I read on my left side, two pillows, with the towel supporting my book-holding hand or the book itself.

I always buy pocketbook format for night time reading. I hate hardcovers.

I try to get to bed between 10 and 11. Mind you, I'm the type who could stay up up until 6AM... If I go to bed at 10h30,I'll read up until 1AM and when the book falls off from my hand or that I re-read the same page thrice, I know it's time to just extend my arm and flick the lamp switch.

Generally speaking, the earlier you get your sleep, the better the sleep is, even for the same number of slept hours.

Sleep dysfunction really robs you of quality of life.

I've been sleep dysfunctional for at least 20 years. I'm now finding tricks that helps me sleep better. The biggest help I found up to now is to enforce a strict computer and TV curfew. And I feel much better since.

:scram:

[DragonKing]

I'm more along the lines of Fey but a bit worse.

I sleep walk and talk really bad. It has gotten better since im older but when I was younger my Mom used to find me down the street sleeping in the nieghbors yard. I've slept walk and peed in closets thinking they where bathrooms I guess. I've awoken neighbors by banging on their doors screaming and yelling and ringing the bell.
I've lost many girlfriends to my bad sleeping habits by beating some of them up in my sleep. I can tell you stories that would make your head spin. lol
So these days, when I do sleep I do it on a futon low to the ground. It makes it harder for me to get up and walk around so I usually just sit up now and yell "Fire in the Hole!" at the top of my lungs. I've been to doctors, hypnotists and tried vitamins and witch doctor potions.
They credit it to my brain being to active.

Now I sleep above 5 hours a night and try to nap two hours during the day sometime. This seems to be working well for me.

::-|

[Feynman]

Originally posted by DragonKing
I'm more along the lines of Fey but a bit worse.

I ain't calling you Lizzard-Numero-Uno-Honcho...
:confused:

Puh-lease, it's not Fey, it's Feynman.
:bad mood:

Feynman like FineMan D. Feynman

:thanks:

cheeechh!

:D

[DragonKing]

my bad..

I stand corrected

Feynman!

:blush:

[hershie]

i have similar issues with sleeping position.

i so want to be able to sleep on my back but cannot sleep unless i am laying on my tummy which is not that comfortable for me as i have to put an arm under the pillow and it goes numb...

also, i need a distraction to get to bed; i put on a talk radio show like Art Bell...on doze off listening.

[Pidgin]

On my belly, no pillow, both hands under body (stops the blood after a while - I know), head left (or sometimes right)

I AM FOR SURE the person to ask about sleeping
I can sleep in any situation in any place
I usually get into sleeping mood when lying down
If I need to force myself to sleep (like before big events when I get andrenalin rush and am too excited to go to sleep) I either:
* Put on music (mp3 list) starting from very loud to very quiet (Just an example: starting with Muse-NewBorn or Live-Freak or Dishwalla:Explode/counting-blue-cars ending with Sinead o'conor:Scorn/Streets-of-London or dire-straights:Latest-Trick etc..)
* Counting sheeps - really! - I mean imagining them jumping over a fence but picturing ALL possible details - like the shape of each sheep, its color, angle of jumping and landing etc.. I usually fall asleep at 326 sheeps
* Imagining me doing pushups on a flat huge surface - picturing the floor coming towards me and getting back.. Makes me tired after the 23rd push ;)

The thing is - you should clear your mind of the things that make you want to stay awake.

And as Garbage says - the trick is to keep breathing :)

[firehorse]

I seem to be able to fall asleep in any postition. Being in a relaxed frame of mind helps. I don't drink coffee or any cafeinated drinks, sugar drinks or add sugar to anything so I don't have anything chemical keeping me awake.

Listening to calm and relaxing music can be a great help as can sex before bed, anything that helps create a calm mind state.

We should always be calm before sleep because as the Dalai Lama says: "Sleep is the great meditation."

[wsjb78]

Well, I was just wondering who you can fall asleep because I don't know to many people who can do it when lying on the back but in films and soaps people always fall asleep on their back!

[Funbrunette]

Originally posted by wsjb78
Well, I was just wondering who you can fall asleep because I don't know to many people who can do it when lying on the back but in films and soaps people always fall asleep on their back!

They also have makeup and their hair always looks great! :rolleyes:

[zoe_zoebaboe]

Its hard, I cant go to sleep with any noise what so ever. I have to have all the TV's turned off, all the radios off...and if anyone else is over to be quiet.

I usually sleep on my side, but ive been told I move around *a lot* while I sleep, tossing and turning and kicking and so on.

Sex before going to sleep helps...taking a warm bath helps also.

[silverway]

Can I also know how you make love?? Hehe

[zoe_zoebaboe]

Originally posted by silverway
Can I also know how you make love?? Hehe

Haha! well lets just energetic enough so I can fall asleep easily

[silverway]

Originally posted by zoe_zoebaboe
Haha! well lets just energetic enough so I can fall asleep easily
Uhm..... That's nice.... :D
If I go to vegas someday could you show me please;)