I can't get no sleep
I have a very difficult time sleeping when I'm not drunk. This is not (just) because I'm addicted to alcohol; booze is my sleeping pill.
The problem is my brain. It wants to keep on thinking and getting excited about topics and issues long after my body has finished for the day. Usually what works when I want to give my liver a break is to watch some mind-numbingly stupid movie or (when it worked) television show. Many people read to get to sleep, but reading keeps me ultra-awake. If I'm into a good book and have 200 pages to go at bedtime, I'll just keep reading until I finish it, since I won't be able to sleep after getting excited about it anyway.
So, through booze or visual tricks, I have to dumb myself down to get to sleep. Does anyone else suffer from this? I mean, I've had regular old insomnia when you're just laying there not thinking, or thinking about sleeping but not being able to do it, but that's not the usual case with me.
In the past week I haven't felt like drinking all that much. I've been watching more and more movies to try to get to sleep, but it's been less effective. I'll finish some film at midnite (I have to watch things until the end, or else I'll keep thinking about them) then turn off the lights to go to sleep. I'll be starting to drift off, letting my mind wander onto some random topic, then Bam! I start analyzing said topic and within 5 minutes, I get up again because it's hard to just lay there and think.
I need to find a new trick to making myself braindead. Any suggestions?
The problem is my brain. It wants to keep on thinking and getting excited about topics and issues long after my body has finished for the day. Usually what works when I want to give my liver a break is to watch some mind-numbingly stupid movie or (when it worked) television show. Many people read to get to sleep, but reading keeps me ultra-awake. If I'm into a good book and have 200 pages to go at bedtime, I'll just keep reading until I finish it, since I won't be able to sleep after getting excited about it anyway.
So, through booze or visual tricks, I have to dumb myself down to get to sleep. Does anyone else suffer from this? I mean, I've had regular old insomnia when you're just laying there not thinking, or thinking about sleeping but not being able to do it, but that's not the usual case with me.
In the past week I haven't felt like drinking all that much. I've been watching more and more movies to try to get to sleep, but it's been less effective. I'll finish some film at midnite (I have to watch things until the end, or else I'll keep thinking about them) then turn off the lights to go to sleep. I'll be starting to drift off, letting my mind wander onto some random topic, then Bam! I start analyzing said topic and within 5 minutes, I get up again because it's hard to just lay there and think.
I need to find a new trick to making myself braindead. Any suggestions?
1 Comments:
At 10:03 AM, Say No To Grad School said…
Read boring books! The best way to do this is to enroll in a really tedious and boring Master's program and do all the reading. I mean, ALL the readng, like the additional/optional reading and the extra dry dissertation your professor wrote just when he became disillusioned with the field.
That'll put you right to sleep and you'll get a degree at the same time.
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