So, how do you sleep? - Page 3

Flint · 08-03-2007, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Digital Underground

I put a towel on the floor by the two inch gap under the door - now they can't see me any more.
Check the locks so they can't clock, but they can listen. There'll be no bargin' in and there'll be no dissin' ...

Cloud · 08-03-2007, 01:13 PM

Hoof Hearted--have you tried the "sun" type of alarm clock, which wakes you up with a gradually increasing light? Totally non-startling.

Aliantha--white noise generators are great! A fan will do in a pinch (and I like the movement of the air).

Flint · 08-03-2007, 01:20 PM

Dr. Jeffrey Thompson's Ambient Music for Sleep was supposedly "developed over 15 years of clinical research" ...I like the way it sounds.

wolf · 08-03-2007, 01:37 PM

When I do feel the need to have something play me to sleep, I have several drumming CDs and a couple environments CDs — wolves in a forest, two different thunderstorms, and waves at the beach.

Waves at the beach is the least successful.

Flint · 08-03-2007, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by wolf

... I have several drumming CDs ...

Drumming is nice. The repetitive patterns are soothing, like a mantra. If my daughter is being fussy and not wanting to go to bed, I can hold her while I play the drums (lightly, with little bundles of dowel rods) and she goes right to nighty-night.

I've recently started experimenting with having a Terry Bozzio CD playing very low in her room at night. We also have a CD for babies with various types of white noise, such as vacuum cleaners and hair dryers.

I use drums, in a different way, to calm my mind down while I'm trying to get to sleep. I imagine playing the drums, visualizing it as well, sometimes I add a bass guitar, so I can play figures against an ostinato. I actually learn how to play new things this way (when I actually sit down at a drumset, my limbs already know how to play the pattern).

Cloud · 08-03-2007, 03:00 PM

kind of off topic, but I'd be interested in recommendations of some good drum cds to listen to

ravenranter · 08-04-2007, 05:31 AM

I drowse more than I actually sleep - I'm in an eternal search for the coolest side of the pillow.

DucksNuts · 08-04-2007, 07:37 AM

Shittly, unless my coma is drug induced.

I take a mixture of drugs and rotate them out so that I dont get immune to them.

I sleep on my stomach in a cold bedroom with the fan on, I have to have noise. The kids wake me up when they cough, but the drugs let me fall back asleep.

Often I wake up in the early hours and just think and think and think....it drives me nuts.

I only need 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep to function, but usually average 6

skysidhe · 08-04-2007, 09:17 AM

lol@ lj

I sleep very well thank you.

I do tend to wake at 6am even if I don't get to sleep until 12 or so and that is sometimes annoying.

My average is 6 hours too ducks. I like 8.

Thesilkmeister · 08-05-2007, 10:24 PM

i am a dysfunctional sleeper........

i used to have great trouble getting to sleep, and i still do but it's getting better. I could be dead tired from sport or work or whatever but i have an inability to turn my brain off so will lay there awake until my noggin winds down. When i was 19-23 this was a nightmare. I would go to bed at 9.30 and get up at 6.30 and only have 4-5 hours sleep. Concequently i would fall asleep at my desk, i would sneak off to the toilets for a nap, or i would tell my boss that i was going for a nap and sleep out the back warehouse on the floor on my lunchbreak. Thank fuck this is getting better and that only happens once a week or so now.

I love powernaps too. I can be stuffed and barely functioning i'm so tired, but if i have a 5 min powernap im good to go again. Love 'em.

Aside from that im a prety good sleeper. Sleep on my sdie and turn over a few times a night. If i have nothing on the next day (or if the wife is working on the weekend) then i am known to sleep until 2.30 or 3pm with no trouble.

However my wife is a freak who has a resting body temperature that is very close to the surface of the sun, she also likes to talk.......and i mean TALK, in her sleep. Giggles, yells, she even calls the frigging dogs up onto the bed in her sleep! This is done on a nightly basis so some nights in my household can be interesting. She moves around a lot as well, throws arms and legs all over the place. I often find myself sleeping as close to the edge of our bed as can be as she has taken over. Now she's pregnant and got one of those big body pillow things she has pretty much claimed the whole bed as her domain......

......damn those doggy beds sure look comfy.......

DucksNuts · 08-05-2007, 11:07 PM

Spare Room Silk, spare room!!

Thesilkmeister · 08-06-2007, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by DucksNuts

Spare Room Silk, spare room!!

we're moving house shortly so there spare bedrooms full of crap - but don't worry i've already thought of it.

she wonders why i stay up late on the weekend watching TV - i get a better sleep on the couch then i do in bed!

08-03-2007, 01:13 PM	#2
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	Hoof Hearted--have you tried the "sun" type of alarm clock, which wakes you up with a gradually increasing light? Totally non-startling. Aliantha--white noise generators are great! A fan will do in a pinch (and I like the movement of the air). __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

08-03-2007, 01:20 PM	#3
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	There has to be some kind of noise! Dr. Jeffrey Thompson's Ambient Music for Sleep was supposedly "developed over 15 years of clinical research" ...I like the way it sounds. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

08-03-2007, 01:37 PM	#4
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	When I do feel the need to have something play me to sleep, I have several drumming CDs and a couple environments CDs — wolves in a forest, two different thunderstorms, and waves at the beach. Waves at the beach is the least successful. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

08-03-2007, 03:00 PM	#6
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	kind of off topic, but I'd be interested in recommendations of some good drum cds to listen to __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"

08-04-2007, 05:31 AM	#7
ravenranter Mystical Miscreant Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: asteroid B-12 Posts: 46	I drowse more than I actually sleep - I'm in an eternal search for the coolest side of the pillow. __________________ "One never ought to listen to the flowers..." - The Little Prince

08-04-2007, 07:37 AM	#8
DucksNuts Bitchy Little Brat Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 5,067	Shittly, unless my coma is drug induced. I take a mixture of drugs and rotate them out so that I dont get immune to them. I sleep on my stomach in a cold bedroom with the fan on, I have to have noise. The kids wake me up when they cough, but the drugs let me fall back asleep. Often I wake up in the early hours and just think and think and think....it drives me nuts. I only need 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep to function, but usually average 6

08-04-2007, 09:17 AM	#9
skysidhe ~~Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.~~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 6,828	lol@ lj I sleep very well thank you. I do tend to wake at 6am even if I don't get to sleep until 12 or so and that is sometimes annoying. My average is 6 hours too ducks. I like 8.

08-05-2007, 10:24 PM	#10
Thesilkmeister Redheads do it better... Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 33	i am a dysfunctional sleeper........ i used to have great trouble getting to sleep, and i still do but it's getting better. I could be dead tired from sport or work or whatever but i have an inability to turn my brain off so will lay there awake until my noggin winds down. When i was 19-23 this was a nightmare. I would go to bed at 9.30 and get up at 6.30 and only have 4-5 hours sleep. Concequently i would fall asleep at my desk, i would sneak off to the toilets for a nap, or i would tell my boss that i was going for a nap and sleep out the back warehouse on the floor on my lunchbreak. Thank fuck this is getting better and that only happens once a week or so now. I love powernaps too. I can be stuffed and barely functioning i'm so tired, but if i have a 5 min powernap im good to go again. Love 'em. Aside from that im a prety good sleeper. Sleep on my sdie and turn over a few times a night. If i have nothing on the next day (or if the wife is working on the weekend) then i am known to sleep until 2.30 or 3pm with no trouble. However my wife is a freak who has a resting body temperature that is very close to the surface of the sun, she also likes to talk.......and i mean TALK, in her sleep. Giggles, yells, she even calls the frigging dogs up onto the bed in her sleep! This is done on a nightly basis so some nights in my household can be interesting. She moves around a lot as well, throws arms and legs all over the place. I often find myself sleeping as close to the edge of our bed as can be as she has taken over. Now she's pregnant and got one of those big body pillow things she has pretty much claimed the whole bed as her domain...... ......damn those doggy beds sure look comfy.......

08-05-2007, 11:07 PM	#11
DucksNuts Bitchy Little Brat Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Queensland, Australia Posts: 5,067	Spare Room Silk, spare room!!

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