I can't sleep :(

[Froogleyboy]

okay, it's Christmas eve, and I can't sleep. It's about 10:30 (my usual curfew) and I'm sleepy , but I just toss and turn. I've taken handfulls of antihistemeens (SP?) and nyquil and what-have-you, but I dosen't work. What should I do?

[Pyrian]

It's Christmas Eve. That's normal.

Maybe try visions of sugar plums.

[golentan]

okay, it's Christmas eve, and I can't sleep. It's about 10:30 (my usual curfew) and I'm sleepy , but I just toss and turn. I've taken handfulls of antihistemeens (SP?) and nyquil and what-have-you, but I dosen't work. What should I do?

Drugging yourself isn't the answer. My suggestion: Sit and do meditation exercises. If you cannot fall asleep after 20 minutes of peace and quiet, get up, take a walk around the room, and grab a glass of warm milk. Read if it tickles your fancy. After ten to fifteen minutes, return to bed and repeat.

[Solaris]

You're going about this all wrong. You're taking your first step on the road to becoming a more hardcore machine. Sleep is a weakness!
Ignore the crazy, that happened long before I stopped sleeping more than four-six hours a day.

[Shas aia Toriia]

Sleep is a sign that your body isn't awesome enough to stay awake. I reccomend you remedy this however possible - just make sure that you never, ever go to sleep.

No, not even after a week of staying up. :smallamused:

[UnChosenOne]

Using drugs to sleep isn't most wisest thing ever. Trust me, I know this form experience.

[xPANCAKEx]

my usual x-mas eve routine:

round up friends
visit a variety of local drinking establisments
get people very drunk
drive them home
get home at 2am
go home and wrap presents with my by-now-drunk-sister that we should have wrapped weeks ago
get to bed at about 4:30am

its a system that works

[Froogleyboy]

I didn't get to sleep last night AT ALL :( even after chugging benedryll

[20_Sided_Horror]

God, little man, I told you lastnight, Just drink some scotch

[Zanaril]

Eh, I havent slept well on Christmas eve for years. I just stay up, play games or something, and try to resist the urge to sing.

[TRM]

my usual x-mas eve routine:

round up friends
visit a variety of local drinking establisments
get people very drunk
drive them home
get home at 2am
go home and wrap presents with my by-now-drunk-sister that we should have wrapped weeks ago
get to bed at about 4:30am

its a system that works
Don't drink and drive!

Besides that, this is the best plan ever.

[xPANCAKEx]

Don't drink and drive!

Besides that, this is the best plan ever.

who says i was drinking ;)

i haven't touched booze in almost 9 years, but i do induldging in damaging other peoples livers regularly... I automatically end up designated driver, but its all fun and games

[Weimann]

I was lying awake and reading very-nearly-porn-romantic-vampire (that doesn't sparkle, technically) novels. It's embarrassing how easy it is to appeal to your baseline emotions.

[SurlySeraph]

I think you just need proper encouragement. (http://mat.ellis.name/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/clown.jpeg)

@V: In EMT training, the advice they gave us on hyperventilating people was "If you can't get them to slow down, just let them keep going until they go unconscious; their breathing will go back to normal while they're out." So it should be fine.

[Zocelot]

Hyperventilate until you knock yourself unconscious! I don't know how safe this is, the only time I've done it was when I was truly insomniacle (this is not a word), and hadn't slept in nearly a week.

In terms of general advice, do something quiet that requires next to no energy. If you try to tire yourself out, you'll just get yourself hyped up.

[Demonia]

You're going about this all wrong. You're taking your first step on the road to becoming a more hardcore machine. Sleep is a weakness!
Ignore the crazy, that happened long before I stopped sleeping more than four-six hours a day.

i agree, you humans have too many of them!

[Mando Knight]

I didn't get to sleep last night AT ALL :( even after chugging benedryll

:facepalm: That's not what the "Side effects may include drowsiness" means. If taking a normal dose of antihistamines doesn't make you drowsy, I'd never recommend trying to OD on them to get the single side effect (that you don't experience normally!) without taking the primary effect and the other side effects into account. The human body is far too complex for anyone to simply meddle around with. Even Especially doctors are careful with judging the correct dosages to avoid messing up their patients' chemical balances through an unforeseen effect.

Mental exercises, physical fatigue, etc. are much more effective and reliable. Try meditating, exercising, or such before trying some hackneyed self-medication on OTC drugs.

[Xyk]

I occasionally take melatonin to fall asleep. It works without a physical dependency. If you're set on taking some sort of pill or medicine for your medicine, I suggest that one. NOT BENADRYL, dummy.