Hi, guys!
So, two weeks ago I started trying to change my daily regime. It's always a painful procedure for me, so I'm trying to do it mildly and with no pressure. I set my bed time on 10 p.m., but if I'm still not sleepy I just watch some movies on my lap-top (in bed), until I feel that I'm sleepy enough to turn off everything and finally fall to another reality.
The plan was that if I go to bed on 10 p.m. I wake up at 6 a.m., and so I have full day for everything I need to do. But, as usual, I missed to take to account my personal features.
I can't be exhausted that much that I will just fall asleep no matter what. My body can be, but my brain can't. Even now, even on medication my brain still decides himself how he will work. Will he let me fall asleep or will he keep me awake for some hours more.
When we bought our subscriptions for the gym it kind of worked like a trigger for my hypo-manic state. I almost gone there, again, despite of my medication. And since bipolar disorder can be described in two words as "If you have plus you can't avoid minus", at the moment (again, despite of medication), I have symptoms of depressive episode. I think I just need to wait till it will get straight again.
Anyway, now I think I will stand up and take myself to the gym. Not at 7 a.m., but does it actually matter?:)
I wish you all the best and will be happy if you'll support me with vote:)
Love, Inber
I totally get the point with the brain!
For many years already I only fall asleep when I have absolute mental silence for about 10 minutes, which is really much.
A decade ago I would simply go to bed when I was tired and falling asleep would happen naturally but at some point this didn't work anymore.
From my experience it is simply an overall sign for us to stop thinking too much altogether and return more to Heart-based living in the Now free from apprehension about past or future. Letting go worries, conscious ones and ones we are not even aware of as they got buried too deep in our subconscious. Incrementally, our mental body will get lighter and lighter...
Read some books/newspaper @ ni8.. U will feel sleepy instant.
I often feel sleepy when i open my semester books
And try to study😊😄@inber
Of course during 30 years of insomnia because of manic depression I never tried to read books!
Seriously... A book can keep me busy until it ends.
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Changing the sleeping cycles and habits can be quite a challenge. What we do before we go to bed is crucial as to whether we sleep straight off, or lie there thinking, thinking, thinking. A nice hot shower is one thing that helps me. In my worst periods, I saw no daylight in Winter, because I was up all night and then would sleep through the day. It was painfully difficult to break that cycle.
I've also got this hard ass insomnia and just as I've improved the situation a bit by skipping an entire night of sleep and had one good rest where I woke up at the desired time (6-7 am) refreshed and wonderful.
The next night after that one, the ape mind decides to go full on oompa loompa on me. I know that I should just get up for 30 minutes and drink a tea or something, this would take the mind off the nonsense, but no! I'm so god stubborn that I still attempt to push through it, with it always ending up with me falling asleep at 4 am and bang up again at 10-12 if I'm lucky. I also have this thing when where I sleep for over seven-ish hours then it feels like I've been hit with a truck yesterday, which always happens...
Tried all the sleeping pills, some work and turn you into a zombie worse than you were before. Then there's the one that makes you do some funky disco sleep-walks, which for someone inexperienced in the sleep-walking ends up in cuts and bruises. Benzos just barely help with letting loose and are, in my opinion way too scary, with increasing doses god damn sudden blackouts and deadly withdrawals from long use.