Ahhh, Insomnia.

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Yes! I have also had success with excercise and sleeping naked.

I also have Insomnia from time to time. I deal with it by taking natural sleep aids and dimming the lights for 2 hours before bedtime. I also have a few nightlights on to keep my mind at peace through the night.

it's 3 am and i'm still up eating pizza hawaii? haha

i can always sleep when i need to be awake, i usually just stay up so late that i just FALL asleep.
trying to go to sleep doesn't exist for me, it's a waste of time and i'll just start writing scripts or write notes about movie idea's, or i turn my ipod touch on and watch my youtube subscription feed, news feed OR COME HERE
i usually wake up at 2-3 pm and sleep at 4 am.

i also am a very light sleeper so i really need to live alone in order to stay asleep long enough to be rested out.

I keep my supply of melatonin well-stocked so as to avoid insomnia. Without melatonin or other sleep aids, I too find it hard to fall and stay asleep.

I have been taking a blend of melatonin and some other things, plus take calcium and vitamin d, have these little "globules" of homeopathic stuff, and the worst nights, a little gin. Try to keep to a routine, if I stay up past sleepytime, then I might be up all night.

I just wonder if there are long term effects from the melatonin, but sleep is more important, so I just shove that to the back of my mind.

Oh, using white noise too lately (noisy neighbors, and the earplus/earmuff headphones do little to block the noise). Fans, radio static, a really boring cd of music, a routine of playing puzzles on my tablet in bed.

And one weird thing, there is a spot in my bed that I can't fall asleep in, it's not that it's uncomfortable, and when my room was arranged different, and in the last place I lived the area of the bed didn't matter (I swear it's electrical energy from all the heat pumps/wiring).

Uh oh, time to get in bed!

I have suffered with insomnia since 2005, and I find it really hard to get to sleep before 2 in the morning, and for at least the last 2yrs I have been finding it hard to stay asleep as well as I seem to keep waking up either every half an hour or every hour and it takes me a good ten minutes to settle down again.

I was just wondering, what have people done to try and help ease their insomnia?

I got it bad. The worst is when I know I have to get up in the morning, then for sure I'll just lay there all night. It used to be especially bad when I knew I was going to travel in the morning. Now I almost never go anywhere.

I got a job as a librarian and was lucky enough to get the afternoon shift. Then this alpha female they hired for the morning shift decided she wanted my shift instead and started bullying me and my boss to switch permanently. My boss couldn't even handle her and almost had a breakdown, but we both managed to stick to our guns and she finally resigned. Luckily my boss is pretty crazy herself, probably ADHD or somewhere on the spectrum, so she understood my problems.

It,(Insomnia) is a real problem. The only way I deal with it is to sleep in late. Every night I stay up late constantly thinking about things. It makes it very hard to sleep.