Help me I can't sleep

I have work in the morning and its 2:30 here I can't shut my mind off and I feel like shit, any future ideas for such issue without medication readily available?

 

Its not readily available I'm afraid. Tight budget. Will purchase some in the future though.

 

Don't drink, smoke, drink coffee or have a poor diet.

Do drink green tea, get more fruits and vegetables, excercise more, have a bath with some a few drops of lavender oil, keep a regular sleep pattern.

 

This is good advice, especially the work out and regular sleep pattern part.

 

download M83's "Digital Waves, Volume 1". Or watch an episode of a show that you've seen many times over.

I'm a bit of an insomniac and my thing is listening to someone speak while I lie in bed. I don't understand it either.

 

Exercise.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAkG6fW4wSs

 

I currently have a job in a warehouse which consists of nothing but hard physical labour... the work itself is nothing to complain about, but sometimes I'm so exhausted afterwards that I just can't fall asleep. I keep lying there awake for another 1-2 hrs before I finally fall alseep although my body is aching for rest >_>

 

I've got a problem with my mind not coming to rest at night, too, but sea noise etc. does nothing for me, and exercise, while effective, isn't always an option either... So what I do is, I try to imagine some fractal, white noise or whatever. If there's any spare mental resources left, I add some more detail. Repeat until distracted/calm enough.
Weird, I know, but it works for me.

Probably not an option for people that do hard physical labor or that already struggle with their work, but occasionaly I just skip a sleep cycle completely and do something useful instead.

 

I usually fall asleep to a movie or tv show every night.

Last night I put on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and I was knocked out before Charlie even found the golden ticket.

 

If it was the new version of Willy Wonka then I'm not surprised :nod:

 

I always put on old episodes of Top Gear and then eventually shut my monitor off.

 

It was Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory not Johnny Depp and the Chocolate Factory.

I probably fell asleep because "The Candyman Can" is such a soothing, moving musical number.

 

You say **** it, make your self a cup of coffee, then sit down at your PC and try to do a late night coding session (code something new). About 10 mins into it you'll be ready to go to bed. =P

Not sure if it's just me being burnt out over the years but I find when I have trouble sleeping at night it's because I wasn't doing much heavy thinking that day and I just want to do something mentally yet when I go over to the PC to try my mind goes blank and I want to go to bed instead. =)

I kind of do miss being able to push my self to work on something technical till 5am in the morning but nothing has really interested me enough to pull the trigger.

 

No wonder you can't sleep, in such a foggy environment.

 

That's not fog it's a ghost photograph...

 

Same ;-)

I can always sleep after a few beers, puts the mind at rest! Especially ale.