I know i need to go to bed earlier, i'm tired alot. But there is always endless cleaning to do, volunteer work to prep for, and interesting distractions like Mamapedia. Hubby stays up later. how do you just shut down early?
::sigh:: I don't. I just accept it and live with it. I've tried to "just stop" my activities sometimes so I can go to bed, but then I can't sleep because I'm thinking about it, and it kills me slowly. Oh well. I can sleep when I'm dead.
i think some of it is your nature. i am not a "goer", never have been. my sleep is VERY important to me. more important than a spotless house, volunteer work, even playing on the computer. i work hard. i deserve and need my rest. but i think it's just how i am- i love my sleep! how do "I" get the willpower to eat better and excercise more? the same way you get willpower to go to sleep earlier...lol. i guess we just have to force ourselves!
I don't. I am always up until at least midnite, because there's just so much stuff to be done, or I want to catch up on the news, some trashy tv, or just a few minutes of a quiet household. The only way I can get myself to go to bed earlier is to lure my hubby in there and make bedtime enjoyable :)
Easy for me. We have our cable box and big flat screen in our bedroom... luckily with a DVR. When we take showers and then hit the mattress around 8pm we might watch a little TV but always fall asleep pretty easily. Menopause makes me get up in the night a few times tho unfortunately.
Melatonin. That is how I get there. I am a night person and I wake up at 4am every day so I started taking 3mg of melatonin about 30 minutes before I need to get to sleep and while I am waiting for Mr. Sandman to arrive I watch tv in the dark or read.
There's a reason I've always worked either 2nd or 3rd shift! I don't do mornings and have big trouble with the early to bed thing...
I have this difficulty, too. I'm a night owl. I try to set a time and then go to bed no matter what is left to do. I combine that with making a reasonable list of what I want to accomplish so that I've accomplished all on my list.
This only works about half the time.
I found that I wasn't sleeping thru the night no matter what time I went to bed. And, as you said, I'd have difficulty getting to sleep because I would keep thinking about what I wanted to do. I'd wake up every couple of hours. My doctor said this is a symptom of insomnia. He prescribed trazadone to be taken 30 minutes before going to bed. It's not a sleeping pill. It started out as an anti-depressant but made people too sleepy to be of use. I wake up in the morning relaxed and feeling like I've had enough sleep even when it's only been 6 or so hours.
