When you go to bed, how long do you lie there for?

I will give it an hour...pretty generous of me, I think....If I am particularly anxious, then I might only give it 45 minutes, but I don't watch the clock.

Do you mean get up as in to start your day? Or to do something till sleepy again? Or to take sleep meds?

I tend to wait a ridiculous amount of time (about 3 hours) before conceding that I'm not going to sleep without the help of meds. (Psych: Why?! Why do you do that?! Me: Because I want to believe it'll happen! Lol.)

It is exceedingly rare for me to get up hoping to get tired again, because that just doesn't happen. Neither do I get up to start day after the pre-sleep wait time, because then I'd really get no sleep(!) Which would be a very bad thing...

[mindwrench]

I seldom get back up, or give up on the attempt even if I end up just laying there till the alarm goes off. I have been tracking my sleep hours with an app for awhile. Based on the previous nights sleep, my mood, and how tired I feel I will stay up waiting to feel tired and if it doesn't happen then I will take something to make me sleepy in time to get 4-5 hours before I need to be up. If I had little sleep the night before, I'll knock myself out earlier to get 5-6 hours. This is how I manage it now.

I used to just sleep when I could and stay up if I wasn't sleepy. Very bad results for me!

an hour at most.

I can't just be lying their doing nothing- so if I can't sleep, i'd rather be doing something

Originally Posted by Innerzone

Do you mean get up as in to start your day? Or to do something till sleepy again? Or to take sleep meds?

I tend to wait a ridiculous amount of time (about 3 hours) before conceding that I'm not going to sleep without the help of meds. (Psych: Why?! Why do you do that?! Me: Because I want to believe it'll happen! Lol.)

It is exceedingly rare for me to get up hoping to get tired again, because that just doesn't happen. Neither do I get up to start day after the pre-sleep wait time, because then I'd really get no sleep(!) Which would be a very bad thing...

I'm sorry...I mean how long do you lie there when you first go to bed...before giving in and getting up to read or something...they say to get up if you can't sleep so that your brain makes the bed/sleep connection...

I'm with you but I thought an hour was a lot....three hours! I'm impressed.

I feel like there's a window of opportunity that I will miss if I get up :-/

It's just so difficult to relax when all of the anxieties start a party....

[Thunder Bow]

I avoid the TV and the computer an hour before bed time.