tell_me_how_you_get_to_sleep onlyme i've forgotten how it's done. 030521 ... Toxic_Kisses When I can't sleep I write letters (in my head) to ppl I haven’t been in contact w/ in a while, updating them on my life, analyzing, rationalizing and explaining away my re/actions or relationships we'd had in the past or letters of protest or thanx or simple recognition for ex Thanking Ms. Mag (msmagazine.com) for having such informative articles and advertising or Protesting the lewd and inappropriate content in pre/teen mags 030521 ... birdmad by shivering the whole night through 030521 ... pobodys nerfect birdmad: As a girl from Canada, might I offer these suggestions? You should close the window and get yourself a fluffy comforter. Wearing socks and sleeping while curled up into a ball shape help too. 030521 ... minnesota_chris thumbs up on the fluffy comforter. This Minnesota boy sleeps under a down mattress. It helps if you can cover your head and leave your face exposed (sleeping on your side of course. I listen to the BBC on public radio. Sometimes if I wake up early, I sneak in a little nap before work. 030521 ... pobodys nerfect "It helps if you can cover your head and leave your face exposed (sleeping on your side of course." Chris:hahaha! Sometimes when it's really cold I do that too! I call the space I leave "the breathing hole". :D LOL,it must be a northern thing. It sure does a good job keeping your nose warm though. 030521 ... Freak/Lilac/Jessica If I can't sleep I masterbate or listen to love line 030521 ... stork daddy that's like conditioning yourself to be awake late at night. 030521 ... joda I force myself to read a book I'm not interested in reading. 030521 ... jane really? 'cause i read stork_daddy_fan_club and i'm usually asleep after the first blathe 030522 ... unhinged i need the little breathing hole too no matter how cold it is. i need a little fresh air to fall asleep. when i sleep with him, he likes to cover us up from head to foot and if we sleep facing each other, he likes to hold me so close i can barely breathe. i need the little breathing hole. otherwise, i get way too squirmy in my sleep. 030522 ... stork daddy i'm glad i can help you out 030522 ... splinken nyquil, and lots of it. 030522 ... pimpin with snoop d o double g if_my_eyes_begin_to_droop 030522 ... Piso Mojado meditation knocks me out if i do it right before bedtime. shutting my mind up and following my breaths go in and out... 030522 ... scuzz I haven't heard Love Line in a while. I miss those memorable stories, but I get more sleep. X period in high school is a mistake. The breathing hole has reached the west coast! 030522 ... lo usually just wait...and wait...and jump on the comp and go back into to bed and read a book...and look at the ceiling. yeah that doesn't really work....occasionally take a couple asprins turn the tv down low. it's supposed to thin your blood or some junk making you sleepy. and take a hot bath and a beer or glass of wine or other liqs. agree on the nyquil but that usually just makes me want to wander around and enjoy my light headed giddyness. and then blathe...careful for the additives though...i wouldn't choose nyquil in large dosage.. 030522 ... pipedream i read. i have to read before i sleep, anything...an ancient readers digest i've read a billion times before, an enid blyton book,the stuff written on the pillow tag, the poems scotchtapes to my closet. never fails to calm me down after ANYthing, be it temper tantrum or insomnia. i love books. 030523 ... angie last nite i couldn't stop thinking about bad things different scenarios... what if my dad came home and i tried to lock him out what if i called the cops on him would he try to break in? would he physically hurt me? what would i do to fight back? would i be able to fight back? what if i shot him? and killed him? could i get away with it? would it be self defense? what if it wasnt? would they know? what if something horrible happened to him...? what if amanda threatened to kill herself so he had to go see her then she killed him? what if he got in another accident? would i know? would i feel it? what would i do? how would i live? whats going to happen to my family? can we go on living this way? do i have to keep pretending like everythings okay? what if i just didnt? what if i let it get to me? then what? my mind is racing i dial your voice mail just to be soothed by your voice i grab my headphones push out the thoughts after an hour of thinking about music, good things, pretty things, beautiful weather, i am tired enough to put the music down, its about 3am now, time for bed, keep the thoughts out, dont let them come back... sleep at last 030523 ... Dafremen Try this: read CLAPTRAP 030523 ... FFFuck F 030523 ... pobodys nerfect I read this again and I see more people use the breathing hole. This is so cool!! I feel so much more normal knowing I'm not the only one that does it. "unhinged"--sounds like you're beau is trying to suffocate you--we'll probably see your story on CSI ;o) "scuzz"--you need the breathing hole on the west coast?! It's not even that cold over there! 030523 ... Rotten77 stay up late enuf that u can't help falling asleep. or get in bed and read until u can't understand the words u r reading, like u can't connect them together into ideas. 030523 ... minnesota_chris are we crazy to be living this far north?!? 030524 ... megan breathing hole :-) of course i go through and think up the worst thing that could happen to me, and then go through and think about how everyone reacts. i know, it sounds depressing, but it does make you sleepy. 030524 ... minnesota_chris thinking about that is usually the thing that keeps me from sleeping at 5 am. 030524 ... scuzz pobodys nerfect-- The climate never affects my room at the far end of the house; just my own body's temperature boiling my chest. I remember as a kid wanting to keep my back to the wall that my bed's against so that ghosts couldn't sneak up on me, but the breathing hole was always a higher priority than safe hiding! I guess I'm still like that, but I keep my back to the room... does anyone else talk to their wall? 030527 ... jackie "not stryper but upon cactus" mc cracken the shivering remark was a reference to an old Leadbelly lyric by way of Nirvana actually it's ten pm and nearly 90°F right now 030527 ... Syrope well...it's about half past 4 right now, and although i am up posting insanely frank, rambling, embarrassing, incoherent (and dear god LONG) blathers, *usually* to fall asleep i get really still and let the room start to spin. i thought it was just me until i read this book where one of the characters was talking about it...called it "the whirlies" it starts slow, and then speeds up. sometimes the room is rotating on a point in the room, and sometimes it's like, attached to an arm and rotating around a larger circuit. eventually the pressure behind my eyes goes away, and i sleep right now though, i have more words i have to get out of my head sweet_dreams blather 030528 ... pobodys nerfect Jackie McC--Well NOW you decide to tell us what you meant by that! hehe! Oh well by not explaining it,it lead to the "breathing hole" conversations, so it can't be bad, right? ;) You have perfect timing with that desert comment. I'd been watching the 11 pm news last week and drooling over how much warmer the arizona temps were at that hour compared to the cold here. Then I made the mistake of sharing it with my know-it-all sister, who insisted I was wrong because, "it gets really cold in the desert at night!". So thank you! =D 030528 ... roasted bird In the open desert it can often get cold at night, even in the summer, especially in the higher elevations, but in the city it stays hot because all of this concrete and asphalt acts like a giant heat trap that stores all of the days built-up temperatures and then keeps on radiating heat at night. 030528 ... god on a health kick pass out and crash 030528 ... pobodys nerfect Birdmad: Darn,I was really hoping I'd be right on this one because she's been really bitchy to me lately,and I was looking forward to proving her wrong on something. I guess you're answer means we're both sort of right. Well,thanks for the answer,I'll pass it on. :) 030529 ... x by not sleeping every other night, i crash easily on the alternate days 030529 ... 6am Damn Freak/Lilac/Jessica i too masterbate and listen to loveline, although recently ive had to turn the radio off since adams voice fucks up my imagination. it doesnt really help me sleep but nyquil does, too bad my dr. said im addicted to it and i cant use it anymore 030529 ... ShilohLives I talk to my wall.. Lol...It's just safer that way.. 030608 ... endless desire wow, if i can't sleep all i do is take "night-time" from our cupboard. it's this cold medicine that always knocks me out. i guess i could try other methods but it is more fun to be dependent on cold medicine instead. 030608 ... endless desire well, it seems 6am and i have something in common. 030608 ... Anna_Began Night time?? From Martin's right? That stuff is top rate. 030608 ... minnesota_chris ahh, the nights spent with cut rate Nyquil. Good times, good times. 030609 ... niska usually alone. but ask me about waking up! reowr! 030609 ... ferret by thinking of you. and everything that you are. the pillar of hope that you represent. the pillar that i am starting to find cracks in. so i grow in them like a parasitic moss, but one that i sbeneficial. i see inside of you and work to put you back together, so that we end up with our lives entwined. like a sculpture of so many horses... i think of you. all the mystery that you are. all that you know and can teach me. all i have to do is ask, but i have to ask the right questions to get the answers i need. you help me build my faith, a foundation for my belief is all i need. i can take it from there. but i want to make sure it is a sturdy foundation. that's why i need you. please, don't log off. 030616 ... trixie rub your feet together like his girlfriend in high fidelity. 030616 ... a thimble in time A pill puts me out cold and shuts my eyes closed.. I wake up at noon, regain consciousness by two Finally, I get myself out around three, keeping a coffee jug with me 030616 ... drstrangelove tell_me_how_to_wake_up or sleep whatever just dont leave me in limbo 030617 ... 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When the pain in my heart is so heavy. When all i can think of is you while you're driving me out of your life. 041008 what's it to you? who go blather from