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What do you do when you can't sleep???
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Big_Bird



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:49 am    Post subject: What do you do when you can't sleep??? Reply with quote

Has anyone got any advise on how to turn ones sleeping around?


Editted because someone I know may be snooping about reading my posts.


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Big_Bird



Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I suppose I'm just going to lay down my head and count sheep.

Good night...
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djsmnc



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I heard that shaking babies usually gets them to quiet down
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Qinella



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

drink a shetload of whisky..
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Xerxes



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's 4am on a Saturday and the regular crowd shuffles in...

If you're really serious about sleeping and not just joking or venting here, my wife gives me jujube extract in a pre-boiled and filtered pouch. It works surprisingly well, but not in the medicinal high of taking it and then konking, but in a mellow way.

I'm actually grading papers and working now actually, but she has given up on me being able to sleep regular hours long ago.

I can't seem to grade papers in short jaunts, so I have to regularly stay up to get caught up. The irony is that I apparently suck at teaching anything else but composition, so the late nighters stay.

On a side note, Quinella, you seemed to have mellowed with terse posts of late. I liked it when you, Gongroguru, and that one dude with the woodsie avatar (then later this old version of him) shooting your mouths off.

Wha happened?
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Qinella



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Xerxes wrote:
On a side note, Quinella, you seemed to have mellowed with terse posts of late. I liked it when you, Gongroguru, and that one dude with the woodsie avatar (then later this old version of him) shooting your mouths off.

Wha happened?


don't remind me..

things have only been downhill since then
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peppermint



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not sure about melatonin and breastfeeding, but it's pretty useful for resetting your sleep patterns.

IF that's out, I find reading, in a quiet and mostly dark room helps
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bassexpander



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I can't sleep either.
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yingwenlaoshi



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 12:19 pm    Post subject: Re: What do you do when you can't sleep??? Reply with quote

Big_Bird wrote:
My baby has been keeping me up later and later each night, and it's got so he doesn't sleep until 3 or 4, and I can't sleep until 5 or 6. It's horrible. Has anyone got any advise on how to turn ones sleeping around. At least if I could fall asleep when he does, that would be something of an improvement. Confused




Apply.
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Natalia



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Counting sheep doesn't work. It's so boring you start thinking about other things.
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pest2



Joined: 01 Jun 2005
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 4:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

After you have an orgasm, they say your body releases some kind of depressant that makes you extremely sleepy......
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OiGirl



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry to get all practical, but...

I really like the lavender "calming" baby bath. I mean for myself, not for babies. It totally conks me out. Maybe you could both bathe in it together.
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KOREAN_MAN



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 6:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Drink milk. Seriously, it helps you fall asleep.
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Draz



Joined: 27 Jun 2007
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:33 pm    Post subject: Re: What do you do when you can't sleep??? Reply with quote

Big_Bird wrote:
My baby has been keeping me up later and later each night, and it's got so he doesn't sleep until 3 or 4, and I can't sleep until 5 or 6. It's horrible. Has anyone got any advise on how to turn ones sleeping around. At least if I could fall asleep when he does, that would be something of an improvement. Confused


So it's true! My mom has always said that I have night and day mixed up "just like a baby".

Have you tried google?
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atomic42



Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 8:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Drink a beer and put on some deep lounge trax.
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