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• 07/10/2007 @ 20:24 Muse said

  

  I can recommend nothing more highly than 30 minutes on a sleep timer of the World Service - being a waker-upper myself. It doesn't help me go to sleep, but at least I am sometimes learning someing as I lie there.
  That and a pad by the bed for the really good thoughts....

• 07/10/2007 @ 20:48 zorro said

  

  Eurghh - I suffer from this also sometimes, except I struggle to get to sleep - someone once told me that if you cant sleep you should never just lie there, you should get up and have a drink and break the thought cycle... but isn't it weird how you sort of get paralysed in your bed... for hours??

• 09/10/2007 @ 22:06 roze said

  

  i feel approaches to insomnia are very individual. one of my friends just lies there for hours worrying. another listens to talking books. sometimes i get up and write creatively. sometimes i work - also quite creatively. the early hours appear to be quite an expressive time for me. lying there and doing nothing is the worst definitely. that and drinking too much tea - so you have to get up and pee even when you do go back to sleep!

• 28/11/2007 @ 23:42 Brown Bear said

  

  Have a Nytol followed by a bowl of cereal. Infallible. But you WILL have to clean your teeth again!

• 13/02/2008 @ 08:37 goofy said

  

  I know how you feel Roze and it sucks terribly. I don't sleep at all most nights (maybe 2 nights a week I'll sleep and then up the other 5) and would give anything to get my mind to stop even if it's just for alittle while.

• 16/02/2008 @ 22:00 kaitty said

  

  i totally understand..i can't sleep most of the time too and its bad because a lot of the time i have to wake up early and im usually already awake with thoughts in my head when my alarm goes off

• 17/02/2008 @ 17:31 roze said

  

  we should start a dawn group - i see it most days!

• 07/03/2008 @ 15:57 eyeswideopen said

  

  hi roze. i know the feeling all too well. its not just sleep my thoughts interupt either...i cant read without my mind wondering onto a billion other things, or sit and peaefully watch tv, or, well, anything really. i was advised to flick through a dictionary and read random words to get my thoughts out of my mind when im struggling to get to sleep. hope u find this useful. x

• 10/03/2008 @ 10:13 roze said

  

  I will try that - i love words actually - i fear i may get so caught by them that it will keep me awake! Thanks for you care. x