Natural Sleep Aids?

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Natural sleep NATURAL Aids: 1. Try to control your thoughts, Don't let your brain think about all that crap that doesn't really matter. It's primary cause for sudden wake-ups in the night.
2. Do some physical hard work everyday, Your body needs it to fall into good sleep.
3. Go to bed the moment you feel like sleeping, unlike "Will go to sleep once I am done with this article", "Will watch this movie 10 more minutes, it's F'ing interesting" kind of postponements.
 


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not the healthiest option but i find a nice bottle or two of red wine followed by a few indica dom joints knocks me out for twelve hours straight. Not a solution you wanna use every day. You can also try spraying lavender on your pillow but I am very skeptical of herbal remedies that you don't smoke
 
FatalError said:
Lots of sex.
Best. Natural. Sleep. Aid. Ever.
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Is that why you have bags under your eyes?

HAHAHA but seriously...

Listen you can't rule out synthetics.. my wife had your exact same problem, she woke up 3am and popped open the laptop and would surf or work .. she started Ambien, no side effects for her yet (been 2 months).

I get insomnia about once every 2-3 years, for about a week or two. I keep a bottle of Lunesta in the bedside table, works like a charm, you get knocked out and sleep like a champ.

If you're adamant about non synth, I think the combo you have now for yourself is the best you're gonna get. Valerian root is a known sleep inducer. The act of "waking up" and starting to think about everything comes from simple stress, so you need to find other channels or ways to reduce it. Do you exercise regularly?
 
1.Did you give reading a shot? Not light stuff like a Cosmopolitan or whatever but try some dense book that gives you mental fatigue from reading a few pages.

2.+1 for the glass of wine

3. Get your hubby to scratch your back while you pass out

4. light exercise a half hour before sleep time

Always worked for me.
 
I don't know about vigorously, but I do walk anywhere from 3 to 10 miles a day so I would hope that would work for exercise.
 
juntao65 said:
Try meditation? Not budhist shit, just like where you practice not having any thoughts for a period of time. If I try meditating in my bed, I fall asleep most of the time.
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Toughtless meditation is one of thousands different practices and very important meditation to many buddhist traditions. I don't know if it's good for falling asleep tough... you could get opposite effect with it.

Go to gym a few times a week and leave your work while being there. Stop working a couple of hours before going to bed.

And don't work so much...
 
Wake up early in the morning.
Make sure your bedroom is pitch dark and cool.
Don't watch TV before bed.

Meditation doesn't make me sleepy. My awareness is at the highest level and i feel more awake than other time
 
I don't really think I have a sleeping problem, but I find that when I just work all day on the computer I usually stay awake for 24-40 hours...when I play hockey/other sports in that day I can usually fall asleep at night after being up for like 16 hours...It could be that your not making your body tired enough and it wants to wake up cause its ready to get going again after a few hours of sleep...

Also...clear your mind from work...If you're constantly thinking about work all day and that is stressing you out then how is this any better than working a normal 9-5 office job?...in my mind it's worse...
 
Actually I slept much better when I did the 9-5...I think it was cause my mind wasn't stimulated hardly at all. :-/

@sampunk My room is dark and cool, I have a whitenoise maker that helps alot (I think my brain focuses on the consistent humming instead of making up stuff to focus on), earplugs, and I don't really watch tv, (although occasionally we watch movies before bedtime)

but again this is all stuff that help you fall asleep...I need stuff that will help me stay asleep. Hence...the natural sleep meds.

I'm kinda surprised nobody else around here has this problem.
 
Also, if you're not getting enough sunlight per day, that could help. Without enough sunlight, your eyes literally cannot tell the difference between night and daytime.
 
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