Cant sleep..need suggestions

More often than not, I find myself not being able to sleep for the last few months. ZIts quite aggrivating when one has to go through every other day with 1-2 hours of sleep.

I try to steer clear of sleeping pills b/c I dont want my body to become dependent upon them to fall asleep. I only take some over the counter stuff if I really, REALLY need sleep.

Any suggestions guys/gals?

Spank the monkey. If nothing else it\'ll be fun.

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I\'m with you man.  I go to bed around 12am and wake up anywhere between 3:30 and 4:00.  Occasionally I get a little more sleep between 6 and 7, but not often.

Benadryl works real well though.  I just don\'t like taking drugs every night to fall asleep.  Melatonin also works well, but you can\'t take more than 1mg or you will have some absolutely whicked dreams and a bad hangover the next morning.

Welp, I just got a whopping hour and a half of sleep. Woke up, for some reason couldnt go back. Today looks to be nice a chitty.

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Heh.  I\'ve been up since 3am. I got 3 hours.  Mine is totally stress related though.  I have so much to do in the next two weeks it\'s ridiculous and then the boss man just through more crap on me yesterday.

well here in cali it\'s 4am, and I\'m still awake so I guess any solution I had for your problem probably wouldn\'t work.  Usually if I have some important day I\'ll take a Unisom to put me to sleep, but I only do that in a pinch.

It seems like my normal sleep schedual is about 5 am.

Originally posted by Videoholic
Heh.  I\'ve been up since 3am. I got 3 hours.  Mine is totally stress related though.  I have so much to do in the next two weeks it\'s ridiculous and then the boss man just through more crap on me yesterday.

Mine isnt? lol..we have to have a race car built and delivered by friday..as of today, I think the motor still needs to be assembled. Then it needs to be dyno\'d..then driven from So.FL to VA.

Also need to get about $9k in customer parts shipped out today. As well as dealing with the locals that come in and want this and that done. Not to mention phone calls from the ppl who we need to send stuff to and trying to smooth that out.

Not saying yer day is stressful, but just take a look up

I also have a few other personal things that need to be done today, so it looks like a long night at the shop for me.

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I never said your job wasn\'t stressful.  I just said mine was stress related.  

Take a chill man. :thepimp:  

Go get some sleep.

Oh yeah, I have a motor to build this week too for a show we are doing next week.  Only problem is we still haven\'t received it and it looks like we aren\'t getting it until Friday morning.  Which means I hope we can get everything we need to build this motor on Friday cause we shoot on Monday.

Originally posted by Videoholic
I never said your job wasn\'t stressful.  I just said mine was stress related.  

Take a chill man. :thepimp:  

Go get some sleep.

Oh yeah, I have a motor to build this week too for a show we are doing next week.  Only problem is we still haven\'t received it and it looks like we aren\'t getting it until Friday morning.  Which means I hope we can get everything we need to build this motor on Friday cause we shoot on Monday.

I wasnt getting upset, just so ya know.

sleep would be nice if I could, hell I cant even get myself going which is why I\'m onlne now anyway.

I didn\'t know you build motors too. What are you building up?

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Dave has a real old Champ Dirt Car.  We are rebuilding it with a 350.  Trying to keep it authentic with newer parts, etc...  Our show is on ARP.  We went and toured there manufacturing facility.  Very cool seeing how they make bolts.  Unbelievable.  There formula one bolts are amazing.  They are so tiny and the weight they can bare is nothing short of phenominal.  They are kept in air tight containers and you aren\'t allowed to touch them.  Top secrety crap.

Originally posted by Videoholic
Dave has a real old Champ Dirt Car.  We are rebuilding it with a 350.  Trying to keep it authentic with newer parts, etc...  Our show is on ARP.  We went and toured there manufacturing facility.  Very cool seeing how they make bolts.  Unbelievable.  There formula one bolts are amazing.  They are so tiny and the weight they can bare is nothing short of phenominal.  They are kept in air tight containers and you aren\'t allowed to touch them.  Top secrety crap.

Sounds like cool stuff man!!! Did they mention what the F1 bolts are made out of? My guess would be titanium. Super light and super strong.

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Originally posted by luckee


Sounds like cool stuff man!!! Did they mention what the F1 bolts are made out of? My guess would be titanium. Super light and super strong.

Yeah, they were titanium.

They were stamping out regular rod bolts too. They take a roll of real thick wire and feed it into a machine.  It chops it into bolts then this head slams into the top of it. 3 different heads.  One makes the taper, one the flat part of the head, one the head itself.  It\'s real cool.  Then it goes and gets threaded.  It\'s amazing how fast they can make a bolt.  We will integrate the video into the show.

well its about 4:50 AM right now in Northern California. I spent the past 5 hours or so playing Final Fantasy X again. I would still be playing but the game froze so I guess its time to sleep. GOod night all.

I have trouble falling to sleep, but once I am out, I am out until at least 7 am.

Sometimes it takes me hours just to get to sleep. I think I might have an overactive mind.

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Originally posted by ##RaCeR##
I have trouble falling to sleep, but once I am out, I am out until at least 7 am.

Sometimes it takes me hours just to get to sleep. I think I might have an overactive mind.

Take melatonin.  It is what your body naturally produces to put you to sleep.  Just take very small amounts of it.  I usually take a 1mg tablet and cut it up into little pieces, maybe 1/3.  It puts me to sleep fairly quick.  I have the same problem as you getting to sleep .  My mind just wanders constantly.