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Title: Can't sleep
Post by: Minskleip on Fri, 31 December 2010, 22:34:58: What do you do when you can't sleep? I browse Geekhack or read Babylon 5 books. Once I watched Star Trek until morning, but I'd only do that if I work the day after.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: HaaTa on Fri, 31 December 2010, 22:54:15: Sleep harder?
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: quadibloc on Fri, 31 December 2010, 23:08:12: Possibly this

might help.

But I know I do have the problem as well that I can't sleep enough when I should, and become sleepy when I should be up and about.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: Minskleip on Fri, 31 December 2010, 23:24:58: Quote from: quadibloc;271445
Possibly this

might help.

But I know I do have the problem as well that I can't sleep enough when I should, and become sleepy when I should be up and about.

That last thing always happens on Sundays!

I always get worked up when I try to sleep, even if I almost fell asleep in the chair before. Same with music, I fall asleep to death metal as long as I'm not in bed.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: Minskleip on Fri, 31 December 2010, 23:25:39: Quote from: HaaTa;271442
Sleep harder?

Whiskey helps ;)
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: bladamson on Sat, 01 January 2011, 01:09:58: Play some old text adventure games. Plundered Hearts is pretty awesome.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: Lanx on Sat, 01 January 2011, 02:42:46: forcing yourself to sleep never works, but staying up to browse the interwebs is worse, i'm a chronic insomniac. Lately in order to prevent myself from not being able to sleep, i tire myself out before hand, with any type of activity, working out or making my dog run with me. But this is only pre-not sleeping. I don't really have a cure for not being able to sleep, if i did, i wouldn't be an insomniac sorry.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: Minskleip on Sat, 01 January 2011, 04:25:06: Getting exhausted is a good idea; the days I'm not working all day I should be going to training anyway, so I'll see if that helps.

Just installed Nethack on my Android - got any good tutorials or something? :D
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: keyboardlover on Sat, 01 January 2011, 09:08:59: I've been told that if you can't sleep, leave your room and watch tv, read something or play a game. Don't go on the computer. Then when you feel tired again, go back to sleep.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 01 January 2011, 12:23:17: I sleep.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: Findecanor on Sat, 01 January 2011, 12:53:01: I often read from a novel in bed thirty minutes-an hour before I shut the lights off. I found that this helps me wind down and focus on something else than what had happened during the day.
If I go and serf the web, then my mind could get all riled up instead, and that often defeats the purpose.

Sometimes the mind is tired, but the body isn't, and that could be a factor in keeping you awake. Making sure that you have some physical activity at night could help that. I find, that with myself, just going for a short walk outdoors shortly before bedtime could be enough.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: sixty on Sat, 01 January 2011, 14:05:01: (http://www.funflashgames.com/games/thumbs/5217_250.jpg) of course.

In all seriousness, I am addicted to audio-books. So I usually listen to those until I fall asleep. That is why most of the days when my battery runs out, I fail at sleeping.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: Minskleip on Sat, 01 January 2011, 14:16:59: Quote from: Findecanor;271654
I often read from a novel in bed thirty minutes-an hour before I shut the lights off. I found that this helps me wind down and focus on something else than what had happened during the day.
If I go and serf the web, then my mind could get all riled up instead, and that often defeats the purpose.

Sometimes the mind is tired, but the body isn't, and that could be a factor in keeping you awake. Making sure that you have some physical activity at night could help that. I find, that with myself, just going for a short walk outdoors shortly before bedtime could be enough.

I think you're right here, I got quite excited when reading about the no poo board. Do you know any keyboard porn sixty?
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: sixty on Sat, 01 January 2011, 14:29:36: Quote from: Minskleip
Do you know any keyboard porn sixty?

Sadly not. I bet if we go through a bunch of random 80s porn we are bound to find some Model Ms or Model Fs though. Think of all those cheesy porn scenes with secretaries suddenly developing an urge to do it on the office table.

This gives me new ideas.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: msiegel on Sat, 01 January 2011, 14:59:39: Quote from: sixty;271684
This gives me new ideas.

"honey, what's all this office equipment doing in the dining room?"

"...and why are you dressed as a xerox repairman?"

XD
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 01 January 2011, 15:14:29: Quote from: sixty;271674
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(http://www.funflashgames.com/games/thumbs/5217_250.jpg)
of course.

In all seriousness, I am addicted to audio-books. So I usually listen to those until I fall asleep. That is why most of the days when my battery runs out, I fail at sleeping.

Listening to music can help too.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: Minskleip on Sat, 01 January 2011, 15:30:28: Quote from: sixty;271684
Sadly not. I bet if we go through a bunch of random 80s porn we are bound to find some Model Ms or Model Fs though. Think of all those cheesy porn scenes with secretaries suddenly developing an urge to do it on the office table.

This gives me new ideas.

You can dress up as an Italian plumber in a red overall haha.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sun, 02 January 2011, 03:37:58: Usually the problem when I try to sleep is that I keep thinking. I think and think about so much, so, I have to force myself not to think anything... rather difficult.
Thought is so exponential.

If I know I can't sleep, I go do something until I get sleepy. No point of trying and wasting time.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: PRISONER 24601 on Sun, 02 January 2011, 15:17:07: What do I do when I can't sleep? I take sleeping pills, of course.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: keyboardlover on Sun, 02 January 2011, 15:46:07: Can't sleep.

Clowns will eat me.

(http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ks5pswvIx91qa2xgl.jpg)
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: 002 on Sun, 02 January 2011, 15:48:53: I read boring things like motherboard or car manuals on the rare occasion that I don't immediately pass out as soon as I go to bed...hey there's another idea: have kids!
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: 002 on Sun, 02 January 2011, 15:57:22: Hey I never said you'd get to choose when you're allowed to sleep - that's for the baby to decide.

I heard that in Japan, the father gets shifted to a separate room when the baby is born so it doesn't disrupt his sleep.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: 002 on Sun, 02 January 2011, 16:10:27: Yes I noticed the same behaviour from my wife's uncle when we stayed with them in Japan. Oh how I envied him, and I couldn't help noticing my wife looking nervous when no-one was batting an eyelid to his apparent laziness.

You should have seen the shocked look on everyones faces when I started changing one of my girls' nappies - I think that's when my wife directed everyones attention to the TV...hmmm
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: woody on Sun, 02 January 2011, 16:12:08: Sounds like I need Japanese wife. Ours were like this, but the foul western influence ruins the experience.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: EverythingIBM on Sun, 02 January 2011, 17:38:07: Well, in my opinion, it's a little inefficient and unjust if the wife is doing all the work. If the husband sits back and does nothing, well, that IS being lazy; and laziness is a poor attitude.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: bladamson on Sun, 02 January 2011, 18:08:23: I find that reading a 1st edition AD&D Dungeon Master's Guide puts me out like a light. :P
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: Minskleip on Mon, 03 January 2011, 06:53:27: Quote from: EverythingIBM;272120
Well, in my opinion, it's a little inefficient and unjust if the wife is doing all the work. If the husband sits back and does nothing, well, that IS being lazy; and laziness is a poor attitude.

He's tired from teaching the children manners. Especially the girls.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: itlnstln on Mon, 03 January 2011, 07:04:12: Sirius/XM Spa knocks me out. If I can con my GF into a di... err... back massage, even better.
Title: Can't sleep
Post by: quadibloc on Mon, 03 January 2011, 21:31:32: Quote from: EverythingIBM;272120
Well, in my opinion, it's a little inefficient and unjust if the wife is doing all the work. If the husband sits back and does nothing, well, that IS being lazy; and laziness is a poor attitude.
The problem is not women's liberation, since, of course, women are people who are as important as men.

The problem is that after a full-time shift at the office, people do not come home with the reserves of energy needed to also do even half of the housework required to properly take care of a home with children.

It used to be that a man with a steady job made enough money that his wife was at home with the children, and so him doing his job and throwing everything of himself into it to maintain his position and advance his career, while she did the housework, was a fair and equitable division of labor.

If, on the other hand, the lady of the house also had a college education and a career - her husband's position would be such that between the two of them, they could afford a maid. A maid who was not an illegal alien, either.

So, in the immortal words of a well-known American saxophonist, "It's the economy, stupid".