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    What do you do when you can't sleep?

    I'm a frequent insomniac and would love to know what other people do to get a good refreshing sleep.
    I've tried Horlicks, getty squiffy, reading a boring book, watching something on the telly, warm baths, cool baths, hot baths, counting sheep, counting caterpillars on the brassicas, planning the allotment .................................. the list goes on!
    The nights I do get a good sleep are amazing, they just "happen", doesn't matter what I've been doing during the day. Got to get up at day-break though to let the chooks out Can go back to bed for a couple of hours then and that's when I get some good shut-eye
    My girls found their way into my heart and now they nest there
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    sit on here and find some good advice lol

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    • #3
      All the insomniacs together at this time of the morning then - I know the feeling. Pity it's too dark to be in the garden doing something. LOL
      The neighbours would have a field day if I started doing that.........and the men in white coats.
      Last edited by Johnny Appleseed; 28-08-2008, 03:33 AM.

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      • #4
        I have been up since 4.45am have had a coffee watched some telly now on here. I have been awake snce 3.30am but tried to stay in bed, trouble is I think too much and that makes trying to go back to sleep worse. Once I'm awake I have to get up, my mind is racing about stupid thngs. I wont go to sleep now till 10ish tonight even i I go to bed later I will still be up early.
        Gardening ..... begins with daybreak
        and ends with backache

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        • #5
          I've been planning my war against an explosion of Mares Tail in the borders (don't know where it came from - it just appeared)

          As napalm is probably out of the question - I'll start the first phase of my first attack at daylight........

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          • #6
            So I'm not really going round the bend then Unless you lot are coming with me!
            I did get a couple of hours before getting up to let the chooks out, 1 nice warm egg already waiting for me ~ thank you girls you're the best chickens ever in the whole wide world, you keep me sane ('cept the neighbours think I'm potty when I stand talking to them just after daybreak each morning)
            My girls found their way into my heart and now they nest there

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            • #7
              When sleep evades me I plant up (in my mind!) two acres as a market garden, I sow my seeds, starting with A and am usually asleep by the time I've planted my kale! If it doesn't work at least it's more interesting than counting sheep!

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              • #8
                another insomniac here... except that I don't normally get the laptop out this early - only as OH is away
                Been up since 3am due to hearing weird noises downstairs and finding a mouse jumping about on the stairs... might as well have had clogs on !!
                Then something rattled the horses and they started whinnying every 5 mins
                Then it was chicken-up time

                Normally I just lie there, or get up and read my book

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                • #9
                  [QUOTE=MaureenHall;275764]
                  I did get a couple of hours before getting up to let the chooks out, 1 nice warm egg already waiting for me ~ thank you girls QUOTE]

                  Since we moved house, I really miss having my chooks but now I'm thinking about quail which would be more suited to our current situation.

                  Something else to think about and plan for at 3am :-)

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                  • #10
                    I usually lie in bed, planning either the next bit of the current plot to be done (either reclamation from nettles or ordinary rotation), or taking over my parents' garden and what I'd do with that. What my ideal dream new build would be (there are a few designs based on a few different specific sites - none of which are ever likely to happen), or what I would do if I got hold of my grandparents house (also unlikely as there are too many others with a greater claim).

                    I find if I get out of bed, I end up waking the OH and that is a really bad idea (we are both bad sleepers and if he wakes, he finds it even harder to get back - so I try to have him only waking when he does it himself or the toddler does it to both of us).

                    I have occasionally woken though to find that he's gone into the loo to read, or onto the pc to surf the interwebbly.

                    Often it's a heat thing with us too. If either is too hot, it's bad. So we may open windows in the middle of the night.

                    But I am often wanting to be warmer than he - and end up looking for socks or the duvet off a spare (single) bed in the middle of the night to get me cosy again.

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                    • #11
                      Maureen hi, I try to list (in my mind) flowers or veg starting with the letter 'A' and work my way through alphabet. Sometimes if I am feeling sad I will create my dream cabin...
                      small made of wood, tin roof so I can hear the rain, black pot belly stove, lovely box bed with big rugs and soft sheeps fleeces on it....
                      zzzzzzz zzzzzzzz zzzzzzzz
                      Last edited by Headfry; 28-08-2008, 07:50 AM.

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                      • #12
                        another bad sleeper here,i get very hot some nights,i have pinned it down to memory foam,we have a topper,whilst is really comfy it's to hot,like sleeping on a frying pan,maybe o/k in the winter,i have tries separate quilts,me a 4.5tog and him heavier,my one is still to hot some nights,but have had to go back to just 1 quilt as OH not like it,so the solution for us at the moment is a 4.5 tog,supper king,he is well happy,but me still not as i would like,so we are treating ourselves to a ajustable beds,it should mean,no roll together,no distubance when turning over,and the best bit is i can raise my feet and head,and no memory foam,still together but comfy,I HOPE,got to wait 2/4 weeks,i will no doubt still have some bad nights,but am pinning all my hopes on getting more good than bad.
                        Last edited by lottie dolly; 28-08-2008, 08:27 AM.
                        sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of these

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                        • #13
                          I have terrible trouble getting to sleep as I`m a very light sleeper and the slightest noise can wake me, and if I wake up it can take me hours to get back to sleep.
                          I`ve got a Nintendo DS lite and I brought solitare for it a few months back. Each night when I go to bed I play double yukon for about 20 minutes and find myself dozing. As I don`t need the light on to play it I just switch it off and turn over and fall straight to sleep. As I don`t have to move to switch the light off I don`t wake up to much. And if I wake up and can`t get back sleep switching it on doesn`t wake up the OH.
                          I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

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                          • #14
                            I read (any book, as long as it isn't a 'never read it before'), until I am falling asleep anyway. Occasionally I miss a whole night's sleep, but in that case I sleep sound easily for the next 3 nights anyway, so it is worth it.
                            The other trick is a lavender scented nightlight, lit at bedtime. I have a REALLY safe holder, couldn't set light to anything, (well maybe if there was an earthquake, but in that case we'd be in so much trouble anyway that one little candle would be irrelevant<g>) Lavender spray on the pillow helps too.
                            Flowers come in too many colours to see the world in black-and-white.

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                            • #15
                              I find wine helps!!My worst mistake is getting in front of computer & trying to make sure i'm gone by the 12:10 deadline!!
                              the fates lead him who will;him who won't they drag.

                              Happiness is not having what you want,but wanting what you have.xx

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