[Capriciousness]

Just lying here trying to turn it all off. I get my second wind once everyone else is asleep and it is quiet and I am alone. I swear I could pop off to a dance class right at bedtime. But alas. I have to go to sleep. I love getting in bed and reading but for some reason I just drrrrrraaaaggg my feet getting there. Maybe it's the transition. I don't transition well and I'm distractible.

Blah anyway. I think the melatonin is kicking in.

Sweet dreams friends.

Same here. Except for the reading in bed thing. Usually I figure I'll just read this bit more. Then, well, a little more, and next thing you know it's 3 am!

[blue_eyed_panda]

I get in bed when I take my meds, kinda makes a nice transition point for me personally. Then I tell myself stories!! I fall asleep to my own stories

[Sinking Feeling]

Well if melatonin works for you, then it can't be that serious

I usually need a lot more then that.

So I can relate.

Originally Posted by Sinking Feeling

Well if melatonin works for you, then it can't be that serious

I usually need a lot more then that.

So I can relate.

Thats not true. I had all sorts of meds for sleep and nothing would put me down, by the time we had decided to scrap them all and try again I had a reverse sleep cycle and melatonin was a lifesaver. It fixed the "sleep at night" chemicals in my brain rather than trying to sedate someone that was way too highly distressed.

Just because melatonin works does not mean its not a serious sleeping problem.

I meditate when I cant sleep, or kind of lucid dream, its fun.

Originally Posted by Innerzone

Same here. Except for the reading in bed thing. Usually I figure I'll just read this bit more. Then, well, a little more, and next thing you know it's 3 am!

same.

recently, i've been reading the dragon's den book (dragon's den being a UK tv series) and the book's about how the dragons became milionairs to begin with

always find myself reading more than i set out to do.

1 chapter becomes 30

strange thing is i can't focus to read during the day

at all

think it's not so much i want to read, but what else do you do with yourself when you can't sleep.

[Capriciousness]

Originally Posted by blue_eyed_panda

I get in bed when I take my meds, kinda makes a nice transition point for me personally. Then I tell myself stories!! I fall asleep to my own stories

this is lovely. as a kid I made up stories every night. I loved it. It was great. As I got older I seemed to lose the ability to fall asleep after it.

[Capriciousness]

Originally Posted by Sinking Feeling

Well if melatonin works for you, then it can't be that serious

I usually need a lot more then that.

So I can relate.

Yeah. It's for sure not serious. This is my normal. Or baseline or whatever.

[Capriciousness]

Originally Posted by Supanova

Thats not true. I had all sorts of meds for sleep and nothing would put me down, by the time we had decided to scrap them all and try again I had a reverse sleep cycle and melatonin was a lifesaver. It fixed the "sleep at night" chemicals in my brain rather than trying to sedate someone that was way too highly distressed.

Just because melatonin works does not mean its not a serious sleeping problem.

I meditate when I cant sleep, or kind of lucid dream, its fun.

Yes I love the lucid dreaming thing. Kinda like the story thing.

I agree about the melatonin too. I think that my circadian rhythms are just off. I need help every night basically. Left to my own devices I would probably fall asleep around 1. But I have three children and they get up early so I can't really do that.

[Capriciousness]

Originally Posted by shattered sanity

same.

recently, i've been reading the dragon's den book (dragon's den being a UK tv series) and the book's about how the dragons became milionairs to begin with

always find myself reading more than i set out to do.

1 chapter becomes 30

strange thing is i can't focus to read during the day

at all

think it's not so much i want to read, but what else do you do with yourself when you can't sleep.

I absolutely CANNOT fall asleep without reading. Like if I can't read I have a big problem. If I have finished a book and don't have another I am lost in the night.

However I cannot read anything exciting or adventurous or the least bit tense or anything. I need a balance. It has to be just interesting enough without being a page turner.

I read until my eyes close. I don't know any other way.

[HALLIEBETH87]

Originally Posted by blue_eyed_panda

I get in bed when I take my meds, kinda makes a nice transition point for me personally. Then I tell myself stories!! I fall asleep to my own stories

I did that as a child. I even used my hands to make people act it out. Lol