Ok so this started last wednesday night. I try and go to sleep but end up staying up all throughout the night and then taking a nap at 1 in the afternoon till 5 and then wake up and go to the gym a little after. Then on Thursday night i fall asleep around 12 and wake up at 3 30 in the morning and was up since 3 30 until about 2 when i went to bed and woke up at 7 at night.
Friday night I fall asleep at 3 in the morning and wake up at 5 in the afternoon. Then Saturday night i once again was up all throughout the night, went to work at 7 and fell asleep when i got home at 11 in the morning and woke up at 5.
Now its tonight and i was tired when i got in bed at around 1 o clock but cant seem to fall asleep now. This whole sleeping thing is really starting to piss me off and i need to fix it.
Any suggestions on things that would help me fall asleep?
Nope - you just have to man up and be awake at the times you want to be awake. No matter how tired you are, you can’t take naps when you should be awake.
I tend to fall in the same trap as you have fallen. Going to a 6:00am cardio or yoga class will always fix things.
Okay - if you want to pull out the big guns… Imagine you have snow day from school/work. It only works if you are able to recall the kickass memories of snow days “doo doo doo - I’m ready to go to school - holy crap! I get to sleep for four more hours - now we get to build a snow fort!” and you don’t think about it too often.
I have had serious sleeping problems for years. Here is what I am currently doing that seems to help.
Go to bed at roughly the same time, within an hour. When I get up depends on the day. If I am tired, I sleep in.
I am using ZMA with Melatonin, the combination seems to help.
Make sure your pillow is thick enough. Otherwise your neck or shoulders might be getting ‘pinched’.
I also put a pillow under (if on back) or between my legs (if on side). Helps my lower back relax.
I sleep better with weight on me, so I fold a throw three times and put that over me when I sleep. I may sweat horribly, but still generally sleep better.
Although I am not happy about this, it helps if I eat some cottage cheese when I wake up in the middle of the night. I have found my workouts the next morning are more energetic.
It is a bit of effort but a good night sleep has been rare at times for me, so it is worth it.
I got tip about a month ago from fightingirish that I may have had so unresolved shit in my head. I thought about that and some very old shit surfaced that I hadn’t thought about or resolved, I can’t believe how well I’m sleeping now. I hadn’t slept well since my early adult days. Something to think about.
You need to establish a routine and stick to it. The body likes regularity and a set schedule. By not doing this you make it hard for your body to settle into any kind of predictable rhythm. Sleep and rest patterns are of prime importance and effect every aspect of your life (mental attitude, muscle building and recuperation, etc.), so don’t sell yourself short.
Dood - you’re a mess lol. No offense…I love my sleep, but how does one sleep for 14 hours straight. Those guys offer good advice: no more naps - period until you reach a good sleep pattern after a few weeks. If you wake up at 3:30 in the morning you just have to gut it out until nighttime - period. Pick a time say 8AM or whatever (even 9 or 10) and don’t sleep past it - period. It’s the only way to get dialed back in.
One thing that corrected my sleep is i put a thick blanket over my window because my blinds where shiet and i have a projector light ‘lighting’ my building.
Now, whenever nighttime comes, the room is pitch dark. I experience more deep sleeps.
when is your last caffine hit, and are you sensitive to it? I’ve had sleeping trouble for a long time, and found over trial and error, that i get a much better sleep if i have less than 4 coffees per day, with the last being no later than 3pm.
this goes for caffinated softdrinks too.
Ambien and wine. No shit, it will put you down when you want it to.
Perhaps you need to bring up your intensity in the gym to a new level, or add sprints. Really high intensity tends to put a lot of people into a deep sleep with no problem. I supervise nearly 20 soldiers, and when I slap them with some extremely high intensity training, they sleep like newborns.
Maybe just jerking off several times a day will help matters. Just a thought.
This is gonna sound weird, but…I’ve tried this numerous times and it really works.
Men were meant to sleep in dark, silent caves.
Turn off ALL electrical devices in the room, cell phone, computer…the whole 9. Everything but your alarm if you need one.
Get an eyemask, so that it’s pitch freaking black. Dim the lights in your house as the sun sets, this supposedly increases natural melatonin production (sleep hormone) because your body is realizing that sleep is coming.
If needed take a meletonin pill 30 minutes before you want to go to bed.
If you actually do all of those things, or hell even most of them…you’ll probably sleep better. I certainly do.
[quote]Hussayn wrote:
One thing that corrected my sleep is i put a thick blanket over my window because my blinds where shiet and i have a projector light ‘lighting’ my building.
Now, whenever nighttime comes, the room is pitch dark. I experience more deep sleeps.[/quote]
that’s exactly what i do.
i find that when you think about it too much you get fucked. i wasn;t able to sleep good for awhile and thats all i could think about. when going to bed i was haveing some serious anxiety problems.
now i keep my room pitch black, and dont have a clcok display in my room because checking the time would piss me off, im more comfortable without a clock. i also have the “fuck it” attitude so i trick myself into feeling like it doesn;t matter when i go to bed. as of late, ive been sleeping fine.
[quote]austin_bicep wrote:
Hussayn wrote:
One thing that corrected my sleep is i put a thick blanket over my window because my blinds where shiet and i have a projector light ‘lighting’ my building.
Now, whenever nighttime comes, the room is pitch dark. I experience more deep sleeps.
that’s exactly what i do.
i find that when you think about it too much you get fucked. i wasn;t able to sleep good for awhile and thats all i could think about. when going to bed i was haveing some serious anxiety problems.
now i keep my room pitch black, and dont have a clcok display in my room because checking the time would piss me off, im more comfortable without a clock. i also have the “fuck it” attitude so i trick myself into feeling like it doesn;t matter when i go to bed. as of late, ive been sleeping fine.[/quote]
Yeah man, too much thinking messes everything up. For example i remember thinking about stuff when sleeping. Like how much i want to dead lift or what i’m going to eat at work ahah. This caused me to wake up sometimes. Light used to prevent me from deep sleeping. But now things are alot better with the pitch black-ness
One issue I still experience is i wake up in the middle of the night thinking it’s time to go to work. It’s as if my biological clock is always ahead.