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Originally Posted by MSNPA
I would actually pay to get a good, full night of sleep! I fall asleep quickly, but wake up around 2:00 or 3:00 and cannot get back to sleep. My doctor recommended I cease all caffeine. This did not work. It does not help that I have nocturnal cats. A friend told me to name all the states in alphabetical order. I have started this several times, but end up thinking about something else. I get a lot of exercise, but this does not seem to help. I really do not want to take pills. Would love to hear ideas that work.
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MSNPA,
Even though I plan to stick with my "waves crashing on the beach" CD that I wrote about last night, I decided to look in the CD section when I was at the bookstore earlier today. I wanted to see what else was there that might help people get to sleep. I found a lot of things that might be worth a try. Some of them were only 6 bucks. Some were music. Some were nature sounds. Lots of different choices. Maybe you could find something to try.
I have a friend who uses a sound machine and sets it on something like white noise. It sounds like a fan. And some people actually use a fan for the monotonous sound. It seems like focusing the brain on something besides worrying or planning can work sometimes.
For some a really hot soak in the tub before bed helps. Something about the cool down process I think.
Something else I have that can help when it gets light before I want to get up is a sleep mask. I ordered it from the Magellan catalogue that has all that travel stuff in it. It's the thing that people wear sometimes when they want to sleep on flights. I like this particular sleep mask because it has rounded-out parts where your eyes are so it does not lay flat against your eyelids.
I don't have a big sleep problem, but when that old brain of mine kicks in and will not leave me alone so I can sleep, I have to have some resources at hand. I hope you find something to help you. (btw, That naming the states thing would make my mind go elsewhere, too. It would be too hard for me to stick with.)
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And 12ridehd,
I knew nothing of Ketel One. I had the genre pegged, but I did not know exactly what kind of libation. And so I looked it up. Good stuff it looks like. But I could never drink it just over ice. It would have to become an ingredient in a chocolate or raspberry martini or, on short notice, just with some cranberry juice. (I think you might be cringing HD. I know that for some, mixing the really good smooth stuff is just a "perish the thought" sort of thing.) I am going to have to try this though. Not for sleeping. Just for trying.
(I know. That's beer. Mr. Tony really needs to get us some martini drinking little guys to click on.)
Boomer