I’ve slept like **** the last couple of days. I have trouble falling to sleep again if I wake up. Even if it’s really ****ing early.
Well, here I am, up again…I’ve been up since 7:00 Am yesterday…
I tried sniffing the essential oil of lavender…enough to knock and elephant out…it just gave me a tummy ache and I am still up…
I have not even practiced today, I worked all day to meet deadlines as I was behind. After 11 hours of staright work, you’d think I’d be overly exaughsted and just collapse… Nope, I just layed there and started at the celing not able to doze off at all…
Maybe I need to try eating a huge steak, or a turkey. Heavy meat based meal make me sleepy.
[QUOTE=Royal Dragon;748091]Well, here I am, up again…I’ve been up since 7:00 Am yesterday…
I tried sniffing the essential oil of lavender…enough to knock and elephant out…it just gave me a tummy ache and I am still up…
I have not even practiced today, I worked all day to meet deadlines as I was behind. After 11 hours of staright work, you’d think I’d be overly exaughsted and just collapse… Nope, I just layed there and started at the celing not able to doze off at all…
Maybe I need to try eating a huge steak, or a turkey. Heavy meat based meal make me sleepy.[/QUOTE]
Some people I’ve met swear by tryptophan. Milk has tryptophan. People have also said chamomile tea (with milk).
Catnip to. It’s a stimulant in cats, but a seditive in humans.
a bit yin deficient, perhaps?
Reading your symptoms, I have to think that you may be a bit ‘yin deficient’. Given your regular, intense workouts, the heat created by the exercise may be burning off all of your precious fluids thru prespiration and vapor exchange in your lungs as well as actually raising your metabolic rate and internal temperature.
Does your tongue have a thin/absent coat or a thick yellow/white one?
Do you feel slightly warm when you go to bed at night?
Anyways, yin deficiency can “heat the heart”, causing insomnia and excessive thinking, restlessness and irritablility.
Eat pears and bananas after your workout to cool things off a bit. These foods ‘generate fluids’ in TCM. Watermelon juice is a good one, too.
Outside of that, I’ve always had decent results with melatonin - less is more with dosage, though and sublingual tablets seem to work the fastest.
peace
herb ox
If you are taking ma huang, it seems like that could really be your problem depending upon what time of the day you take it.
I used to take the over the counter version of those pills that they used for truckers to stay awake on long trips sometimes because it acts like epinephrine. I think it lasts like 8-12 hours or something.
Does your tongue have a thin/absent coat or a thick yellow/white one?
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More white, but not thick? I don’t know what you are looking for, it looks like a toung to me.
Do you feel slightly warm when you go to bed at night?
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No, just awake.
Anyways, yin deficiency can “heat the heart”, causing insomnia and excessive thinking, restlessness and irritablility.
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Does eating meat replace deficient Yin? That seems to be helping.
I am serious, if its just anxiety, try some calicum. Take around 500 mil’s and it often takes the edge off.
I have been eating abit later (Heavy protine meals), and going to bed around 10:00-10:30, and that seems to be helping.
Also, I have changed my routine and lightened up on the conditioning to a more Qi Gong/Forms platform for now. I hate to do this because I have not met my current conditioning goals…it’s still taking me 40 minutes to do a 25 minute routine…and I am not even useing wrist and ankle weights for the body weight exercises yet…but I am sleeping soundly all nite again.
Heavy conditioning allways exaughsts me right after the session, but once recovered (About an hour) I am very energetic. This rarely interfears with sleep, but I have some stress related issues right now, so backing off seems to be helping.
I have never slept - all my life - it’s torture
now I grow herbs & eat them - no more sleep problems - no more nightmares
:):):):):):)
I would like to start growing Herbs for energy as well :rolleyes:
because my disability doesn’t leave money for pre made concoctions
When it comes to a healthy lifestyle there are three factors: Diet, Exercise and Sleep. Sleep is the one aspect that seems to always be overlooked. Sleep staging and consolidation are extremely important. There are 4 primary stages of sleep. These are N1, the transition from wake to sleep. An attenuation of alpha activity (reduction in cortisol levels, your stress hormone) and transition into theta state. N2, full on unconsciousness, here you loose the ability to smell and hearing is reduced. N3, deep slow wave restorative sleep for the body. HGH is produced, your metabolism is being regulated, immune system is checked up on, body heals injury etc. REM, light phase that is restorative sleep for your brain. Here short term memory is consolidated into long term, analytical thinking and problem solving occur. The normal transition of the phases is N1, N2, N3, N2, REM. Each block should last approximately 90 minutes and be repeated 4-6 times a night. In a normal adult the percentages of each stage is approximately: N1, 5% of night, N2 50% of night, N3, 20% of night, REM, 25% of night. There are over 80 recognized sleep disorders, 15 more are being looked into. These disorders range from a gambit of Sleep Disordered Breathing, Hypersomnalence, Narcolepsy, Circadian Rhythm Disruption, Parasomnias, Movement Disorders, Phase Disorders, Drug Abuse etc. Many health and mental issues can be attributed to undiagnosed sleep disorders. Many disorders have layers, meaning that one specific disorder is causing several others. Without the underlying cause being diagnosed and treated you are only treating the side effects, which will reappear as the condition worsens. Some of the effects that one can suffer from, from an undiagnosed or untreated/mistreated sleep disorder are: Cancer, Arrhythmia, Stroke, Heart Attack, Diabetes, Hypersomnalence, Parasomnias (Sleep Walking, Talking, Eating etc.), Exacerbated Cognitive Instability and Mental Disorders. Your best bet if you feel that your sleep or lack there of is affecting your quality of life is to been seen by a Board Certified Sleep Specialist. Many people suffer from a serious sleep problem but do nothing about it. Your body is good at compensating and it could be years before you realize that you have a serious problem. Don’t put it aside, if you can nip it in the bud early it’ll be that much easier to resolve. If you wait it could become something more than you can handle or create permanent damage.
More than 30% of the population suffers from insomnia.
Between 40% and 60% of people over the age of 60 suffer from insomnia.
More than 30% of the population suffers from insomnia.
Between 40% and 60% of people over the age of 60 suffer from insomnia.
More than 30% of the population suffers from an undiagnosed sleep disorder, more than likely apnea, which is likely the underlying cause of their insomnia. As the age goes up this percentile usually increases along with things like circadian disruption.
I’ve got a book on chinese medicine that suggests putting an onion in a jar and inhaling it for 10 minutes whilst in bed for insomnia! Doesn’t sound like it will work but it must comes from some folk remedy.
My mother has insomnia and she tried acupuncture which put her to sleep during the treatment, but otherwise wasn’t that effective. But it might help if you have it often.
There are prescrition drugs that will forcefully knock you out but they are probably not to be recommended. I’d try chinese herbal medicine personally.
There is a meditation method where the mind focusses on a zero point then nothingness which puts you to sleep. No concentration on mental activity, breathing, or anything. The aim is to try and transcend the mind, body, thinking, space everything. If you do it properly you will probably go to sleep.
The other thing I found helpful is practising tai chi or training at a ridiculously late hour . I use to try and train till fairly late at night and always found myself lying asleep on the training space. that should probably help unless your insomnia is extreme.
**** that should have been posted on the insomnia thread.