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What helps you fall asleep after you've woke up in the middle of the night?
 
What helps you fall asleep after you've woke up in the middle of the night?

You know, I try to deliberately unfocus my mind.

I think of something like ... a whale. Then I try and think of something really, wildly different like ... a pink umbrella. Follow that up with something incredibly different again ... the concept of philanthropy.

I keep doing that and - sometimes - it just turns my brain to mush and I fall asleep out of exasperation!
 
You know, I try to deliberately unfocus my mind.

I think of something like ... a whale. Then I try and think of something really, wildly different like ... a pink umbrella. Follow that up with something incredibly different again ... the concept of philanthropy.

I keep doing that and - sometimes - it just turns my brain to mush and I fall asleep out of exasperation!

Interesting, I like that.
 
Have a handy book by the bed that I can’t get more than a few pages through before falling asleep again.
 
Read

Read an interesting erotic story totally out of your element and then close your eyes and put yourself in the story.
 
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What helps you fall asleep after you've woke up in the middle of the night?

Prior to a knee replacement surgery, we bought one of those "articulating" beds as I call it. You make adjustments with his/hers remotes, head up down, feet up down and vibrate. Over time, I learned that if I woke up it the middle of the night and my brain went into gear, all I had to do was to activate the head and foot vibrator. It runs 15 minutes before cutting off. 99% of the time, I'm asleep before I hear it shut off. This bed has been the best money I've ever spent. Give me a good night's sleep and I can tear it up all day long to the extent that some of my crew think I've gone crazy. Sleep and ice, my miracle drugs!
 
If your brain decides it wants to be awake, distract it from the idea of being awake. Reading works. Thinking of random abstract thoughts works too. Try weaving them into a story. Or even the exact opposite, meditation, can work. But I find that it's often more work to try and not to think of something than it is to think of something. I try to not do anything that involves bright light or food.
 
Masturbation is a horrible choice if you need a stimulating focus

Go someplace in your past, see every detail as you take a walk

Or

Go over a recent movie you saw, see each part, explore the scenes as they failed to do in the movie. See the action from different perspectives

Or message me, and we can find a common focus for that masturbation
 
I'm heavily insomniac, and have been for years and years. I've been through a LOT of doctors. They ain't fixed me, but I've learned a whole lot the fun way - face first.

Some things docs have suggested to me

Exercise. 30 minutes of aerobic work to the point where you can still talk but it's not easy to do so

Go to sleep the same time every day, and get up the same time too

If you can't sleep for a time (15, 20, 30 min, something like that) get back up and do something else until you feel sleepy

Don't use a screen before bed. Blue light from the monitors (LED, LCD, OLED, whatever) all wake you up. "nightlight" programs are out there that cut down the amount of blue light that come out, and there're amber glasses and the like that also cut down on the amount of blue light you get - but they're not well understood, they might help, they might not.

Watch for caffeine and the like

If you snore hard, get checked for sleep apnea, and if you have it find a treatment that both works for you, and that you're willing to do every night.

Try listening to something boring when you're trying to sleep, and keep it just barely loud enough to hear.

Good luck, gawd knows we all need sleep, like it or not.
 
I also enjoy War and Peace. If you're looking to be bored to sleep, I recommend Kant. It's like reading drywall.

Or, try picturing space. I try to start with my home, block, city, country, earth, etc moving out and out past planets and comets until it's just the inky blackness of space.
 
Yep That's Me

What helps you fall asleep after you've woke up in the middle of the night?

Too often I wake up after 3 or 4 hours of sleep and it's frustrating when my body wants to curl up and sleep when I should be working. Mostly I wake up if I get cold, or have to pee. To keep that from happening I empty my bladder before I lay down, and sleep with an electric blanket on low. (Yep, even in summer because my spouse likes to freeze me out)
If I happen to wake up I make a cup of Chamomile tea, eat a few bites of cheese and down a couple Melatonin tablets. (6mg works for me) The hot tea warms the insides, the calcium in the cheese, the Melatonin and the tea are all natural sleep aides and cracks the door open just enough for Mr. Sandman to sneak back in.
If that doesn't work I put on the Harry Potter movie Sorcerer's Stone. No kidding, the music in the movie puts me to sleep pretty fast.
My absolute last resort is my leftover Hydrocap pain meds from my knee surgery and it's guaranteed to knock me out every time.
 
I've been trying almost everything tonight with no luck. However, the wank was most enjoyable though messy
 
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