Sleepy Time rituals.

@iam3green said:

i lay in bed.

You are weird man, who does that? seriously!

@pornstorestiffi said:

@iam3green said:

i lay in bed.

You are weird man, who does that? seriously!

Weird-asses, that's who!

I have an odd sleeping schedule due to my work hours, so I normally need something to help me zone out. I usually watch some kind of online stream until I feel tired enough to pass out. Lately I've been falling asleep to Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman: Season 3. Two bucks a pop for an episode on Amazon and well worth it for what it provides me.

Other times it's gaming related stuff, such as Giant Bomb or Day Z streams.

@Mahonay: I used to watch Through the Wormhole too before sleeping, watched all of them. So much informative stuff told in a not-too-scientifically boring way, great stuff.

@CaLe: @BeachThunder: Thanks for those songs guys! Just the type of stuff I like to listen to when I can't sleep.

Video game speedruns put me to sleep rather efficiently for some reason, particularly Sonic games.

@BeachThunder said:

@CaLe said:

This song was made by science to help you sleep. Not even joking.

I used to listen to this:

That's racist.

I drink 9 ounces of rum from novelty shot glasses that are shaped like shotgun shells.

During the school year I will get into my bed, then go all the way under the sheets, then I will do some D&D stuff on my phone like look at spells, feats, items, etc or I'll contonue work on my next session. Once I get tired enough I'll turn off my phone and fall asleep.

Right now I'm listening to Marconi Union - Weightless and also a video tutorial at the same time. Ear plugs for 10 years+ now. Biosphere - Substrata album.

Cold temperature. Don't think about aggravating stuff. pitch black room.

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy. I'll never finish those books in this lifetime.

@GenocidalKitten said:

@Silvergun said:

@MyNiceIceLife said:

i started taking Melatonin. It's produced by the body naturally to help you fall asleep, but staring at a computer monitor or a TV can keep it from kicking in so i started taking a pill a night and it helps a lot. i fall asleep easier and get a lot better sleep then i used to (also tend to wake up earlier feeling more awake).

I've been taking melatonin too, and yeah it's made a remarkable difference. As for the monitor thing, there's something that can help there too. The reason that late night computer / TV can impact your sleep is that the color blue stimulates your thalamus, causing your body to think that it's day time and not time to sleep. There's a piece of software out there (name escapes me, let me know if you're interested and I'll dig it up) that will lower the blue balance on your monitor around sunset, allowing your thalamus to figure out that it is indeed night, and time to sleep. It gives things a 'rosy' look, and between that and the melatonin, I'm getting MUCH better sleep than I used to.

I stopped taking it because it would give really vivid nightmares.

Yeah, I'd heard about it doing that with some people, guess it's an effect of having better REM cycles. I know when I started taking it, the first few nights I had dreams that I remembered the next morning (which is really unusual for me), but now I'm more or less back to my normal dreamless sleep. I wonder if there is something else you can take that wouldn't have that effect.

If I don't feel fully tired I'll read for a bit until I can't keep my eyes open.

When I had a TV in my room, I would turn on episodes of "The Joy of Painting". Which is the painting painting show hosted by Bob Ross (the happy painter).

this, but on the PC

If I'm off work, I just keep going until I almost pass out. If I'm working I fall asleep from being tired quite naturally.

Sleepy Time? Well, it's not too difficult. I just need to be in my Berenstain Bears pajamas, have a bit of my favorite juicy juice from my sippy cup, and my mobile needs to be wound to play my lullaby. Out like a light.

@Silvergun said:

@GenocidalKitten said:

@Silvergun said:

@MyNiceIceLife said:

i started taking Melatonin. It's produced by the body naturally to help you fall asleep, but staring at a computer monitor or a TV can keep it from kicking in so i started taking a pill a night and it helps a lot. i fall asleep easier and get a lot better sleep then i used to (also tend to wake up earlier feeling more awake).

I've been taking melatonin too, and yeah it's made a remarkable difference. As for the monitor thing, there's something that can help there too. The reason that late night computer / TV can impact your sleep is that the color blue stimulates your thalamus, causing your body to think that it's day time and not time to sleep. There's a piece of software out there (name escapes me, let me know if you're interested and I'll dig it up) that will lower the blue balance on your monitor around sunset, allowing your thalamus to figure out that it is indeed night, and time to sleep. It gives things a 'rosy' look, and between that and the melatonin, I'm getting MUCH better sleep than I used to.

I stopped taking it because it would give really vivid nightmares.

Yeah, I'd heard about it doing that with some people, guess it's an effect of having better REM cycles. I know when I started taking it, the first few nights I had dreams that I remembered the next morning (which is really unusual for me), but now I'm more or less back to my normal dreamless sleep. I wonder if there is something else you can take that wouldn't have that effect.

i haven't had any nightmares, but i have had a lot more dreams that i'm able to remember. then again i'm one that used to have dreams that i could remember from time to time, so it's kind of nice. that is until i have a bad one lol.

@stonepawfox said:

When I had a TV in my room, I would turn on episodes of "The Joy of Painting". Which is the painting painting show hosted by Bob Ross (the happy painter).

this, but on the PC

The best. I went ahead and bought some of the DVD's since they got removed from YouTube. It only comes on PBS at noon some days here.

Read or play a game, turn on a podcast, set sleep timer and alarms, fall asleep in 15-20 mins usually.

@Grimhild said:

So it's 3:18 as of starting to write this post. I need to force myself to go to sleep so I can actually function in the morning. Sometimes my sleep patterns are erratic, and sometimes I need ambiance to actually go to sleep. Other times not. So I'm about to curl up with some Bob Ross DVD's and let that bushy-fro'ed paragon lull me away to dreamland.

What do you guys usually do to put yourself to sleep?

Nightcap? Warm milk? Stuffing bacon in your pillows? Resting on the flayed skins of your enemies?

Good night, GiantBomb.

Ambien. And internet porn.

@GenocidalKitten said:

The usual:

1. Brew and drink Sleepytime tea (it's a brand of tea that's mixed to help you sleep)
2. Read a book until my eyes hurt.
3. Take off glasses turn off lights, sleep.

The express.

1. Take a triple dose of sleepytime tea (that shit will fuck you up)
2. Start listening to an old bomb cast while everything's turned off
3. Sleep.

Fuck the fuck yeah. Came to say the same thing. Beware that sleepy bear, y'all.

I... watch no-brainer tv shows like Cakeboss and Say yes to the dress, and then I eventually get tired, and go to bed.

Don't judge me. I'm manly.

seroquel. I'm not taking it for sleep but it has a drowsy side effect that helps in this regard.

@Grimhild said:

@stonepawfox said:

When I had a TV in my room, I would turn on episodes of "The Joy of Painting". Which is the painting painting show hosted by Bob Ross (the happy painter).

this, but on the PC

The best. I went ahead and bought some of the DVD's since they got removed from YouTube. It only comes on PBS at noon some days here.

I PVR'ed some of the PBS broadcasts and managed to download a couple episodes, turn them into MP4 files and put them on my iPhone. I listen to him at work a lot too.