Insomnia

I haven't been able to sleep lately. Every time I'm drifting off something jolts me awake. It's awful. I need to sleep.

i occasionally get the same during turbulent times of my life, its anxiety induced i think and you could try medication for it

In my case it's anxiety related too. I found out that when things get too stressful, drinking some alcohol helps me with sleep. I usually drink some wine or a small dose of vodka, and do something comfy like reading a novel or watching SOL anime before going to sleep.

does melatonin help with this kind of thing?

I'll admit I spend way to much time in front of screens and they stimulate your brain and prevent you from falling asleep easily. I would recommend a exercise routine to tire you out and melatonin

how are you even supposed to sleep when the nights are so bright?

>>918 Thick curtains.

Cut down on the coffee, drink some alcohol, drink some chamomile tea, and then hide under a blanket so that it's dark

As others have said obviously don't drink coffee or other caffeinated drinks (like at all) at least until you fix being able to fall asleep, also no electronics for at least 2 hours before bed, try to match your sleep cycle to the rising and setting of the Sun as close as possible, i.e. as soon as the Sun sets you go to bed, you set your alarm as close to sunrise as possible allowing for a full nights sleep. Also get some exercise in the day, NOT right before bed, a good 3 hours before or more, you'll fall asleep easier because of it. Also don't Eat within the two hours before bed. With those basics out of the way I can offer some advice based mostly off of anecdotal evidence; when I lie down to sleep and begin to wind down, first my thoughts are mostly verbal, I'm still monologue-ing and such. Then I begin to visualize and have more auditory thoughts like music, my conscious perception of my thoughts begins to fade, and, I'm asleep. What I've done and what you can do if you are having difficulty sleeping is if you don't naturally pass from the first phase (word) into the second (sound & image) is do it intentionally and start to visualize and play music in your head what ever seems to flow, no word. Lastly don't try to fall asleep. don't think "I'm soooo tired will I ever fall asleep" etc. Or beat your self up mentally for messing up or having difficulty controlling your thoughts just fallow my advice and you'll get better. You want to have the attitude that if you ultimately can't fall asleep fine you'll just fallow the steps again next night. Hope this helps, if your sceptical and other approaches haven't worked try my advice for a week to give it a fair shot, who knows it might just work.

>>954 That's sound advice. I like to imagine and visualize some situation that is happening in a room or place close to where I am. For some reason visualizing things in a different physical space easily gets me into sleep.

>>863 I'm always like that anymore. What's worse I've been awake for over 26 hours myself and just drank two cups of coffee. I have so much on my mind right and just can't lay down to fall asleep. >>864 I know I need on some sort of medication for the most part. I just wonder if it'd really help me in the end. >>867 I need to get back on my regular exercise routine. I've been slowly slacking off the last two weeks. >>954 I've tried a lot of your advice over the years. It works for the most part. But right now my life has so much stressful aspects in it going on right now. I literally only can fall asleep when I'm on the brink of collapse. I usually stay up for 36 - 40 hours at a time now and then sleep roughly 14 - 16. I started really feeling the effects on my body the closer I got to my 30s.

You could take some benzos my waifu does that after smoking ice

I can't sleep unless I'm literally headdesking. I get around it by inducing a hypnogogic state, google "yoga nidra" or corpse yoga. St. John's wort can help with anxiety, chamomile tastes like a racehorse's sweaty booty hole but helps you sleep.

Consider meditating. https://www.wikihow.com/Meditate Take https://lainchan.org/drug/ only as a last resort. Avoid replacing a problem with a series of problems. Addiction is no joke.

It might seem corny or too simple but the following all helped me get to sleep. My problem was primary thinking about solutions to problems and general rumination that prevented me from sleeping for more than an hour. 0. Go to bed between 8pm-midnight if possible. 1. Cut out caffeine after 3pm, and avoid screens a half hour before bed. Put your phone across the room from your bed. 2. Try meditating sometime -- sit down for 5 minutes and try to push any thoughts out of your mind when they enter. Then try to apply this method when you need to sleep. 3. When you start dreaming a bit, latch onto those dreams and let them pull you in. 4. Get active during the day. Basically just try to work hard enough that you sweat.

>>863 Just masterbaite and get a warm moist towel on your feet then drink some warm almond milk then you should sleep no matter what!

One tip I picked up was only to take my multivitamins in the morning and not at night because vitamin B can make you speedy. If your circadian rhythms are fuarrrked up you could try wearing a sleep mask at night, and those yellow glasses during the day. There's also a Yoga exercise where you "greet the sun" by facing it with closed eyes and letting the light shine through your closed eyelids to stimulate your pineal gland.

>>863 How's your sleep hygiene? If it's good and you still can't sleep talk to your GP I recommend melatonin and mirtazapine

>>2471 I can sleep fine now

>>2474 Oh damn I just now looked at the dates How did you manage to fix it?

>>2475 dunno

>>2471 A lot of people recommend melatonin because it's natural, but it's actually a hormone that we get in very small doses. Any comercially available dose of melatonin is huge. There are some cases where it can be helpful, but be wary of treating it as natural and taking it indiscriminately in large amounts for long periods of time, which some people do, and do your research like any other substance. Posting this for anyone still looking over this thread for sleep advice.

>>2477 Melatonin is good for body clock resetting. Using it only two or three nights in a row at most whenever being not sleepy at right time. The reason for not taking it regularly is that reduces your body's own production.