Comments on: Home Remedies for Insomnia

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:56:20 +0000

Might sound strange but i bought a magnetic pillow. Avoid the ones with ceramic magnets although they still work, just not as effectively. It takes a few days to start working but i find i get to sleep quicker and sleep longer without waking up. They really worked for me and are relatively inexpensive (mine was around £10/$17).

By: Avrahom

Avrahom — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:02:50 +0000

Ihave been suffering with sleep problems for nearly four months. After seeking out help from the medical and mental fields with limited success I can recommended my own methods. 1) Drink a small cup of hot liquid (milk, decaf herbal tea)to relax. 2) Before bedtime limit your phone conversations to 10 minutes and adjust your phone ringer to mute(don’t forget to reset the volume in the morning),3)Although pets are nice and adorable, they might disturb you requiring the bedroom door being closed. 4) Don’t be ashamed to tell your roommate that the television or stereo is loud and bothersome. 5)Don’t worry about not falling asleep. Eventually, it will come.

By: Delayla

Delayla — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:10:21 +0000

I have had problems sleeping since I was a little girl. One night when I was at my grandma’s house she told me that sleeping in a very cold room and in a warm bed and warm pajamas helps you sleep. So i=I tied it and it worked!

By: Judith

Judith — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:54:21 +0000

A large glass or cup of any liquid (water, milk, tea) right before bed is not good advice, as you’ll soon be awakened by having to go to the bathroom.

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:58:30 +0000

i i have delved deeply into phsyic books, years ago when i began and could hardly ever fall into a physic state what it did do was put me right to sleep, and being quite the insomniac then i welcomed the new help and i found myself instead of trying to find my physic deep state i useed to excersizes for falling asleep and it worked everytime, you could say it is a fun-ified gamelike less boring way to count sheep, all you do is lay in your favorite sleeping position and pick an excersize
which invovles you pictures or visualizing deep in your head NOT WITH YOUR EYEs, its tricky at first but trying to master it will push you farther into your head and since that is where your mind goes to dream anyways (the subconsious) you will fall asleep without being able to finish the game sometimes
1. TAKE SEVERAL DEEP BREATHS (this is critical) take them slow breath in all the way count to 123 then let it out long,

2. CLEAR YOUR HEAD doing this while stressed is hard but if your willing will help relax you. complete darkness is needed and complete slience if you live in the city ear plugs help

2.then visualize keeping your eyes still (try to take all focus off your eyes and what it see behind the lids you dont see on the back of the eyelids you see in the mind)

3. they can be anything you want the to be with whatever ever colors you want, i use a ball, visualize a blue ball a red ball and a purple ball, take each one and let it pass from one side to the other out of you vision and back across your vision outta of site on the other side then use the next ball then the other,

4. then memorize 6 different colored balls, let one cross your vision then one after the other, then cross the back in the same order backwards

this did not work for me the for awhile, so i tried making mine a little more fun, you can easily make up your own games, it gives you a sense of doing something while relaxing and dropping deeper into your subconsious and to sleep a the same time, also prcaticing a physic skill..it cannot be just imagining memories or things of that nature becuz these thoughts envoke feelings and things that keep the mind awake and the blood moving, it needs to be something you have no feeling about and something that is repetitive enough to bore you without completly annoying you to death, basically you havve to be ready to sleep when you begin…it is somewhat like a self done hypotizism
i use visualizing a big buddle of balloons of every color and i let one of them go at a time and i watch every one of them float far far far into the sky to where i cannot see them anymore…
and i take deep breaths the entire time.deep breaths tell your body it is time to relax and automaticly ready your mind for sleep and shutting down
no this will not work with everyone, and not always the first time,but it will with patience and pratice ..basically with the disiplined mind it will work, i also eat a little peice of bread before bed, and use room tempature settings a pillow to your liking a bad pillow always makes it harder and complete darkness and silence

i hope this helps at least one insomniac

By: Darlene Forsman

Darlene Forsman — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:39:16 +0000

Take a walk several hours before sleeping. This seems to calm me down. It doesn’t have to be a long one, but a reflective one works the best, so using part (d the “Unwind Time” will work very well. Sometimes just enjoying nature in ALL of it’s elements can relax one into sleep.