What do you do when when you can't sleep?

[gamecubeguy214 2,512]

I'd answer this, but it's not really SFW. It does tire me out enough to fall asleep though.

Don't worry, you ain't alone. I do to.

[~Chaos~ 3,967]

Usually I sleep very well. But on the nights I can't (Which is rare) I'll just watch shows or play some games.

[Johnny1226 14,674]

I read a book until my eyes get tired and I fall asleep

[Orbit 7]

I calculate in my head, math was always making me sleepy

[Mutemutt 773]

Normally, I just stop trying to fall asleep and focus on staying awake. Sounds weird, sure, but by the time I feel like sleeping I'm worried that I'll end up oversleeping. I usually just play games or watch youtube videos to stay up.

[DeadAccount 4,604]

I listen to sounds of the sea <3

[ChikaChan 7,326]

Watching more youtube videos! xD

[Meson Bolt 2,648]

I used to peel potatoes when I couldn't sleep. Then we ran out of potatoes...

 

And I took an arrow to the knee.

[AngelsNight 164]

get out od bed get something to drink watch tv (mlp) get back to bed and dream about mlp

 

 

(yes i should see a dockter about the last part )

[SuperBrony87 506]

Pain reliever/sleep aid meds usually do the trick for me if I'm not feeling the sleep most nights. Sleep is easy when you're sleepy or live an active lifestyle which taxes your energy levels and the like. Stuff like sugar and caffeine, over stimulation from t.v. or bright flashy videos games that are played in the later hours after noon some say. Certainly won't help your sleep that's for sure. In fact many things can effect your sleep... Insomnia can be a factor, while I don't have that, many people do. Aside from what I mentioned. Insomnia is one of the main reasons people can't sleep. Anxiety, nerves and other mental problems factor in too.

     I take focus meds because I have ADHD and I have autism and they're prescribed for me daily focus aids have been a part of me my whole life off and on. Although what to focus on specifically isn't quite clear. I don't have a job, nor any school or classes going on right now.  Which would be its main priority paying attention better. Right now, I just have nothing to do I still have to take them, while the strange numbing sensation that comes from amphetamines that might raise flags to some. They do decrease my appetite to needlessly eat things between Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Call it boredom munchies. During a long day; which has been helping to aid though not a significant method to weight loss. Starving yourself is more harmful than helpful to you. Achieving the perfect body has always been a need to constantly monitor my weight troubles and that is a full time job. Might also be a small factor to my sleep habits, stress. Which affects everyone's sleep. A fear that I'll never fully realize my ideal body. The way I've always imagined it. 

     It's always hard for me because it's so easy to fall off the wagon and find yourself back where you started... And also because for whatever reason (i.e. being a lazy bones). I haven't gone to the gym admittedly and just stayed home and played games and binged t.v. and YouTube which I watch on my PS3 I've actually watched it more than Netflix and Hulu Plus, but mostly pretty much the whole time of the Holiday months. So much food and calories this is not just me right? Anyways, I just get really lazy and fat. So that's square one problems.

     I have good days and some days I shudder, neigh don't care know what the scales say for me. I just need look at myself and know where I am. Some days I think, "I used to me a skinny boy"... I had a fast metabolism growing up that most food never affected me. You couldn't tell by looking at me now. If you saw me then and today.

     So while I have t.v. and video games. Which right now is a hobby. Which also kills a lot of time pretty good. This lifestyle will probably kill me if I was always on it. So to ensure that I never get too bad. The gym I use offers a nice way to keep myself in check but I have little self control, motivation which looking great and feeling better/getting more female attention should be enough. and there's almost no real support system to help me keep in line. If I lost a crap ton of calories killing myself at the gym then return home. There's the calories come back in my face.

     As for my meds... When I just want to sit back and chill on the couch. The pills soon after taking one, offer a strange feeling that should be familiar to me now, but comes off as just nagging me. I can't focus on my t.v. show currently on the screen. So one time I just cleaned kitchen counter tops and then returned to my previous activity. I've related the feeling (composed of both energetic and anxious) as like a woman nagging me to to something. Not to seem like I'm sexist but it really feels like my pills are trying to tell me to do something in the same way my Mother would ask me to get off the couch and do some task or chore and will not stop until I do the thing.

     If you don't do anything all day and just sit with eyes glued on the monitor screens. Before it's time to nod off to "Dreamland". You're too stimulated to sleep. So with me is I'll go to the bathroom, take two pills as prescribed (while also taking care of a headache if I have one) and then by when ever bed time is for me. Some nights I'll be feeling my legs twitch at the knees which kinda clue me that I'm tired and should get to sleep cause sudden knee jerks are annoying. Also might be something else entirely too but I don't have RLS. I just go to bed in hope my legs will calm down. If you have RLS or "Restless Leg Syndrome" then that's all them uncontrolled spasms like when the doctors hit the knees with that tiny rubber hammer. Reflectors going nuts. Well, mine just occasionally and only around bed time.

      When they do it feels like jolts of electricity in the knees. Other nights I'd miss my window to grab pills and just try to sleep. Which isn't good because I'll be tossing and twisting. I look over and see a cat nesting by me and sometimes I'd wake up randomly and there would be not cat there. It's become apparent to be that I subconsciously twist around looking for the right position that varies most nights.

     So taking pills will often help, while working out briefly to quickly tire yourself might take too long. Sleep aids are a more certain solution to bring the Zzzzs. So this one was all over the place but if you get this far then good for you. I'm placing all this stuff under my strange sleeping habits to the reason my sleep is so strange. 

[Thermonuclear Kitten 70]

I just whip out the phone, watch vids about stupid stuff. Bam, works like a charm.

 

[DJShy 873]

Easy Question! I simply snuggle with my Fluttershy plushie.

[K1NG_NAZARA 15]

Mostly reddit. Plounge . Fun crowd. Until I fall asleep with my phones in hands.

Edited January 8, 2016 by K1NG_NAZARA

[Rarity Is Best Pony 634]

If I can't sleep I'll get out of bed and hop on reddit for a while till I feel sleepy again. 

[vampireponyprince 184]

I usually just drink warm tea, light subtle calming incense, and read a book and put on acoustic or orchestrated music! when that doesn't work i just go on social media till i fall asleep

[RainbowxWolf66 67]

Depends on that night and if i have to work the next day. But i love to just lay in bed and watch tv. But i would maybe draw, or read or play my xbox.

[Invincible 2,092]

I'm generally a very light sleeper and have had troubles falling asleep since i was a kid. I doubt it's the same problem, but what helps me sleep is just thinking about stuff until i'm too distracted and tired. Without noticing i eventually shut my eyes and lapse deeper and deeper into sleep, until i don't think anymore.

[SRN 146]

http://www.rainymood.com/ 

 

Helpes a lot ^^

 

Back when i had my phone (it broke on my birthday  :okiedokielokie: ) i used to watch youtube videos while lying in bed.

[nevergrowingup 28]

I try and find an hour-long podcast or listen to a radio show with the sleep timer set to 60. On weeknights I listen to a morning show in Ohio called 'The Riot' from RadioU. Within half an hour or forty-five minutes, I'm asleep. Weekend nights are harder though, it takes me ages to find something. 

[Meson Bolt 2,648]

Eh, normally I ghost around on random forums and make stupid posts.

 

Hey wait a minute...

[IronM17 5,400]

I watch TV (usually documentaries because the best documentaries come at the night) when i can't sleep. Sometimes I also surfe in the internet with my smartphone or read something (book, comic, etc.).

[Xeltor23 704]

I think about my future and sometimes imagine stuff related to MLP

[Britney Biskit 55]

I like, just lay uncomfortably until i finally sleep.

[RirePink 30]

I drink a cup of tea or two with cookies (or anything else). At first I listen to the music and then I read some fanfictions from fimfiction.net If that doesn't help - I play games or watch movies, or sit at the window and watch the night sky.

[PinkieatHeart 208]

I... get on the internet. >.>

 

But other than that, I usually just lay there and daydream. Eventually I'll fall asleep.