How do you all get to sleep?
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nametakennow
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Music, and a lot of the other methods mentioned would work... I use music cause well.. I'm under 18 (21 for the alcohol) at home too... though I think we have Nyquil. I had slight insomnia for 3 years, and it recurs every once in a while. Swim team is great for sleep... though that doesn't start til October, so... I think myself to sleep, if you stop trying to tell your mind to shut up and let it run, the thoughts get random and you just crash, works great.
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Stoneage_Turbo
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Just about anything
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MainEvent212
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I hope this was a joke. You have no idea who I am. I'm nowhere near being a hippy, and I'm not just making crap up. If you haven't felt complete focus before, there is no way to describe it in words that will do it justice. Meditation is a major part of many cultures and religions. Go ahead and resort to foreign chemicals to control your body, even though you can do it through your own actions. This is a sad example of American fast food culture: you want results now and with no effort; just pop a pill and all your troubles will melt away.toki wrote:Hippie.
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Thee 240sx Owner
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[Zero-S]
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I asked my doctors for intravenous morpheine and they gave it to me (you're not supposed to give morpheine intravenously...it could kill you). But I was in THAT much pain. That **** took it right away, I got up and walked myself back to my car;).
Oh and meditation works...somewhat. Distractions are a b.tch though, as is not having a clear mind.
Oh and meditation works...somewhat. Distractions are a b.tch though, as is not having a clear mind.
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szh
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toki wrote:I love this little thing above my reply box....
Where is this board based? Moscow? OR just the east coast?
It figures out the correct offset from GMT (which is passe, by the way, should say UTC) based on some thing (state?) that it looks up in your profile, I think. Mine says something [correctly] that it is GMT-8 and gives me the local time in California.
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RacinDa240sx wrote:I see nothing wrong with popping pillls.. I'm pretty sure if you were in surgery buddy.. and they had to cut you open like a fish.. your sure won't be meditating for that not to hurt.. you would be beggin for some pain killers or just to knock you out..
Yeah buddy :rolleyes , I'd have to agree with you about surgery, but we're talking about going to sleep here. My statement about popping pills and all problems going away was meant to be taken somewhat literally, but also metaphorically. What I meant was that everyone is always looking for the immediate and simple way out, when sometimes taking the more difficult path yields more lasting and rewarding results.
For the last couple of years, I've had a hard time falling asleep. That is up until the last month or two. I've been getting into qigong and wu style taichi chuan, which has begun helping to deal with some of the effects that prolonged stress has on my body. Someone else brought up meditation, and I think it's great. I try to do it for at least 15 minutes every day, and usually end up doing it 4-5 times a week.
If you can't sleep, there's a reason for it. Either you have somethings on your mind that you aren't dealing with, or there's something wrong with your body. The last thing you want to do is start popping pills on a regular basis. You need to get down at the root cause of your problems, and you're the only person who can do that (unless you wanna pay some grip to go see a head shrinker). Be honest with yourself and ask yourself what's bothering you. Ask yourself what is preventing you from falling asleep as easily as you expect to. Pay attention to what is going through your head. One of the worst ways to get to sleep is to try to go to sleep. Instead, focus on what's going through your mind.
Lately what I have been doing is focusing on the colors that you can see when your eyes are closed. The random flashes of light, spots and swirls of color that are results of your optic nerves trying to make sense of the "darkness" that happens when your eyes are closed.
If you were to try that, you might very well find that your mind wanders away from it. Yet every time you notice that you're no longer noticing the colors, you can bring your mind back to it. And with each gental nudge you give your mind back to the random colors, you'll begin to gain control over whatever thoughts are pulling your mind away from the colors in the first place.
If you get bored with the colors, focus on your breathing and imagine what it would be like to feel more relaxed with each exhale. If you want to cheat, you can slightly tense up with each inhale, and then release the tension when you exhale.
Going to sleep can be fun, especially if you take the time to think about the stuff that you don't have time to think about during the day.
If you can't sleep, there's a reason for it. Either you have somethings on your mind that you aren't dealing with, or there's something wrong with your body. The last thing you want to do is start popping pills on a regular basis. You need to get down at the root cause of your problems, and you're the only person who can do that (unless you wanna pay some grip to go see a head shrinker). Be honest with yourself and ask yourself what's bothering you. Ask yourself what is preventing you from falling asleep as easily as you expect to. Pay attention to what is going through your head. One of the worst ways to get to sleep is to try to go to sleep. Instead, focus on what's going through your mind.
Lately what I have been doing is focusing on the colors that you can see when your eyes are closed. The random flashes of light, spots and swirls of color that are results of your optic nerves trying to make sense of the "darkness" that happens when your eyes are closed.
If you were to try that, you might very well find that your mind wanders away from it. Yet every time you notice that you're no longer noticing the colors, you can bring your mind back to it. And with each gental nudge you give your mind back to the random colors, you'll begin to gain control over whatever thoughts are pulling your mind away from the colors in the first place.
If you get bored with the colors, focus on your breathing and imagine what it would be like to feel more relaxed with each exhale. If you want to cheat, you can slightly tense up with each inhale, and then release the tension when you exhale.
Going to sleep can be fun, especially if you take the time to think about the stuff that you don't have time to think about during the day.
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Holisticbeatz
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Thee 240sx Owner
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Are you budda??? You sound so much like him.. LoL i give you props for being kewl bout that statement.. loljacob360 wrote:Yeah buddy :rolleyes , I'd have to agree with you about surgery, but we're talking about going to sleep here. My statement about popping pills and all problems going away was meant to be taken somewhat literally, but also metaphorically. What I meant was that everyone is always looking for the immediate and simple way out, when sometimes taking the more difficult path yields more lasting and rewarding results.
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skydragoness
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nothing wrong with pot, i'm sure that hippie Jacob smokes it all day long..
HAH i'm just kidding Jacob, as I was about the hippie comment earlier also.
Yeah, I know I am not sleeping because I have ish on my mind. It's currently 4:23 and I am wide awake, I know why, it's because my mom happend to drive off drunk tonight after she broke some **** and blamed it on me and I locked my door. Then I was worried like nothing before for 45 minutes before I got a call from one of her friends telling me she was there asleep. Then I got home after going out and driving without a license most of the night at 4am, only to realize I left my kitty and kitten out back all night. I felt more horrible than I already did for that one.
That's tonight.
Usually it's just my thinking about random family/money/people/other issues that bother me. I used to think I had something to look forward to every day. Then that stopped, and sleep was an escape, but now, I don't even get that escape without 100mg of chlorinacticoxybenzinate wtf ever sleeping pill goodness.
Woo hoo. School starts in 3 days. Hooray.
Ususa
HAH i'm just kidding Jacob, as I was about the hippie comment earlier also.
Yeah, I know I am not sleeping because I have ish on my mind. It's currently 4:23 and I am wide awake, I know why, it's because my mom happend to drive off drunk tonight after she broke some **** and blamed it on me and I locked my door. Then I was worried like nothing before for 45 minutes before I got a call from one of her friends telling me she was there asleep. Then I got home after going out and driving without a license most of the night at 4am, only to realize I left my kitty and kitten out back all night. I felt more horrible than I already did for that one.
That's tonight.
Usually it's just my thinking about random family/money/people/other issues that bother me. I used to think I had something to look forward to every day. Then that stopped, and sleep was an escape, but now, I don't even get that escape without 100mg of chlorinacticoxybenzinate wtf ever sleeping pill goodness.
Woo hoo. School starts in 3 days. Hooray.
Ususa
la la la la la 5:30 and the sun is a comming!
tonight while I was practicing donuts, the first one I did, I bounced it off my limiter in 1st, and then I went to put it into gear after I stopped, and I didn't put it in and stalled out. Those seconds from when I started it back up, put it into gear, realized it didn't have it in gear before, and moved, were the scariest few seconds in a long time.
tonight while I was practicing donuts, the first one I did, I bounced it off my limiter in 1st, and then I went to put it into gear after I stopped, and I didn't put it in and stalled out. Those seconds from when I started it back up, put it into gear, realized it didn't have it in gear before, and moved, were the scariest few seconds in a long time.