Pick up phone. Check email. Regret screen exposure. Bury phone.
Repeat.
The Stages of Insomnia
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#22As with others I have been suffering from frequent attacks of insomnia over my life, while anecdotal I have found my stack that has been working for me for the past 4 months.
- Supplement L-Tryptophan
- 350 mg Magnesium Carbonate before bed
- 3 mg melatonin (bioavailability is claimed to be between 10~15% - was on 10 mg but I found I was waking up too frequently)
- 10 minute meditation with calm app
- Timed air con.
If I do wake up, I immediately meditate.
It is a ritual, but I am sleeping well most nights.
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#23My rule is if T > 4am then fuck it I just got the gift of a day with some extra hours in it. Otherwise fidget then check rule above.
I wish I could do that... If I don't get enough sleep, it's hard to focus, listen to people in meetings, think of complex solutions. It kinda ruins my whole day...
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#24I've been using something called Intermezzo, which is basically 'baby Ambien'. It's a crazy mild dose, sublingual so you don't need to even get up and swallow a pill. Knocks you out for maybe 4 hours on a good day. The idea is to knock you out just enough to get you into a sleeping habit on your own, not sedate you into oblivion.
It works OK, I guess, but every now and then I power through it and end up having not so much a trip as ... something like lucid dreams written by a bored, disinterested TV script writer.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s totally fine. Just write what you’re thinking.
Rubber duck your brain. Take a drive, turn on voice recording and pretend you’re expressing your problem to someone else.
That's a really cool idea.
Do you listen to the recordings? What do you do with them?
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#26Pick up phone. Check email. Regret screen exposure. Bury phone.
I don't know if that's just for sake of the joke or if you are living this problem yourself, but you can try apps like Digital Detox (for Android), or any other app that locks you out of your device.
Also, keeping the device(s) outside of the bedroom is quite efficient.
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#27If you live where it’s legal, a micro dose of THC has done wonders for my Insomnia. For me, my insomnia manifests with a difficulty in falling asleep. Completely sleepless nights are not uncommon. 2-4 hours of waiting to fall asleep was the norm. 2-5mg edible thc about 2 hours before bed and 0.5 mg melatonin 20 minutes before bedtime and I am able to quiet the mind and drift off to sleep on about 20 minutes. Keeping the dose low means you don’t get high, (but you still might get some munchies and enjoy some music a bit more than being completely sober) and also means there is no morning hangover.
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#28As with others I have been suffering from frequent attacks of insomnia over my life, while anecdotal I have found my stack that has been working for me for the past 4 months. - Supplement L-Tryptophan - 350 mg Magnesium Carbonate before bed - 3 mg melatonin (bioavailability is claimed to be between 10~15% - was on 10 mg but I found I was waking up too frequently) - 10 minute meditation with calm app - Timed air con.…
I can confirm the magnesium and meditation has done wonders for my insomnia
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#29I've been using something called Intermezzo, which is basically 'baby Ambien'. It's a crazy mild dose, sublingual so you don't need to even get up and swallow a pill. Knocks you out for maybe 4 hours on a good day. The idea is to knock you out just enough to get you into a sleeping habit on your own, not sedate you into oblivion. It works OK, I guess, but every now and then I power through it and end up having not so…
As long as you use melatonin sublingually it should do the same thing right down to the 4hr nap, only .3-1mg is needed.
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#30As with others I have been suffering from frequent attacks of insomnia over my life, while anecdotal I have found my stack that has been working for me for the past 4 months. - Supplement L-Tryptophan - 350 mg Magnesium Carbonate before bed - 3 mg melatonin (bioavailability is claimed to be between 10~15% - was on 10 mg but I found I was waking up too frequently) - 10 minute meditation with calm app - Timed air con.…
I can confirm the magnesium and meditation has done wonders for my insomnia
As a side there has been some interesting studies around Magnesium L-Threonate with regards to sleep and memory, which I am curious about - but it is possible to become "addicted" to it which has me cautious.