I Can't Fall Sleep...
 

so why should you.

The irony is I'm never tired when I need to go to sleep, but I'm always sleepy when it's time to wake up. Thank God for coffee and weed, I would be dead w/o both.

Don't really smoke anymore because my job drug tests, but I can seldom ever fall asleep. Even with weed, it was a chore. I just basically hang out online and add random **** to my Amazon cart for my next paycheck, and occasionally go to sleep.

take 500mg of dextromethorphan and get back to us in the morning.

No DXM for me until June, ladies and gents. That will be reserved for camping, in conjunction with psychedelics (which I've missed dearly) and pompous craft beer.

DXM is so hard to find in pure form these days, without Robo-tripping.

Not so hard at festivals. There's DMT, DXM, MDMA (Mahl) and everything you can imagine. I'm skipping out on Bonnaroo this year, even though I have the cash to go. It's kind of stupid. But I have a fall NYC trip planned.

And I have LSD, MDMA, DMT, 'shroom connections in June....

Ill be over

Contact Dr.Kevorkian via Ouija - he'll tell you what to do, Ass.

I second that.

Just release gas. It makes me fall asleep super quick.

excellent it's going to be quite the scene....

let's all get fucked up and promptly... fall.... asleep.

Yes, lets.....:thumb:

As someone who has a similar problem I have a found a solution.
Sort of.
It's silly, but bear with me. I came up with this many years ago, late at night, being bored out of my mind, having only a bottle of mineral water around.
You need a 2 liter or so plastic bottle, 1/3 full of cold water (not ice cold, tapwater cold). Lie down on your back and place the bottle on your forehead/nose. Try to balance it. let go of the bottle, put your hands next to your body. Try balancing the bottle so it doesn't fall off - it might be tricky at first but you'll learn in no time. Now the thing is that even the smallest move you make makes the water move, the bottle starts falling off - you have to compensate with head movements only.
It usually takes me no more than 10 minutes of this before I decide I am so sleepy I can no longer maintain the balance, I take the bottle off and fall asleep.
I don't really know why or how it works, but the combination of the weight of the bottle, the temperature and the effort to keep it in place .... it's hypnotizing, for a lack of a better word. I often have trouble clearing my head before going to sleep, with various thoughts chasing each other, so to speak. This relaxes me, clears my mind. At some point you stop thinking about everyday problems that keep you from falling asleep, you just think about the god damned water bottle, it's both boring and fascinating at the same time.
Just remember to make sure the bottle is not open and that once it falls off, it won't for example fall on the table and knock down an ashtray and an open carton of milk (as happened to me once) ;)

You sleep with an open carton of milk by your bed? That's so Polish.

If given the opportunity I'm almost certain that I would kill for a normal sleep cycle

Why don't you try sleeping pills?

I haven't popped a pill since..... I can't even remember actually, but it would take a lot to get me to pop a pill.

I know that feeling all to well, I would do some pretty ****ed up things just to get to sleep at night myself, like obviously, popping pills.

Try melatonin - Melatonin for Sleep: Hormone and Supplement Effects on Sleep

You can get it at any pharmacy in the vitamins section.

Lol, well the pill is the exception to that rule I would rather kill than take a pill. And yes I know it's silly, but I would rather stay awake that pop a pill

That's understandable. I feel the same way about taking my meds. But I have a mental illness, so why shouldn't I take medicine to stop me from being sick?

What did they dx w/?

Google's not giving me any hints, I'mma guess, dx = diagnose?

Yes dx = diagnose

I abbreviate everything @ work & it has leaked into every aspect of my life

I understand, are you asking what did they diagnose ME with? cause you didn't mention a name or gender or quote me

(fixed)

Lol, like I said I abbreviate everything as a result of work so I often leave that stuff out, what did they dx you w/?

Bipolar disorder

That was my guess for you and what meds did they put you on?

Hermione, you're an insomniac just like me? ;)

Well I'm not ALWAYS an insomniac, but sometimes it hits me REALLY hard and I can't sleep for a solid 48 hours, meaning I skip one full night of sleep.

^^that's probably lightweight compared to some of you

Oh I did have a length of time when I was in college and working a lot where I didn't sleep from Tuesday to Friday, because of work and classes. Well I'd get SOME sleep here and there, maybe a 20 minute power nap.

I've been on all sorts of meds, lamictal work the best for me, I just could admit it because I still wanted to get ****ed up on regular drugs because I didn't have any faith that the lamictal would even make me better. But I decided to take a chance.

That sounds truly awful. Sometimes I think I just forget to sleep. I get so wound up by things I have no way to release them. so I don't sleep and cloud my mind with things.

Besides the meds are you receiving therapy or are meds the only tx they're using on you. The lamictal is probably the cause of your sleep issues,lol. I swear sometimes I think it would be more honorably just to sell street drugs.

Bachelors life man, living it to the fullest.

No I stopped going to therapy because I've never had a therapist that worked well with me and the last one made sexually inappropriate comments that I felt super uncomfortable with so I stopped going.

I stop at open jar of peanut butter on my spare TV.