What Do You Need or Use in Order to Sleep at Night?
Sound:
Since I live in South Carolina, I sleep with the air conditioner on for much of the year, but when I don't, I have a sound generating alarm clock which plays the sound of ocean waves and babbling brooks which I use instead.
As long as noise is being made by someone I trust or is perceived by me to be "safe", oddly enough I can sleep through almost anything.
Light:
I'm a night person, so I'm used to sleeping with light. As a child-teen, I used to insist on leaving the lights on.
Pillows/Bedding:
Part of the night I sleep on my back, then I roll over on my side so I use one full body pillow, a giant polyfill neck pillow that I share with my husband, plus a small square memory foam pillow that I use under my neck (or a backup flax seed pillow). Then for most of the year I use a sheet, plus a light comforter at the foot of the ned to exert pleasing pressure on the feet.
Sleep Aids:
If I'm going through a period of allergy sensitivity my nightly Zyrtec antihistamine pill helps me get to sleep faster (or other over the counter antihistamines like Benadryl/Diphenhydramine or Unisom/Doxylamine succinate). If not, I take 1/4 of a tablet of melatonin which I find works best of all.
Other:
I like either a hot shower or a hot bath before bedtime whenever possible. I actually enjoy sleeping with my hair slightly damp.
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Haha a pan? Cool.
Oh damn this thread's kind of old, but really interesting. Mine is so boring though. XD;
Uuuh: pillow between the knees (cuz otherwise my leg gets all, you know, the restless legs thing) and nooooooooooo sheets. I haaate sheets, all they do is get tangled. XD;; One or two blankets is fine. All wrapped around me like a burrito, no breezes getting in. Except my face, I need a perfect face-hole so my breath doesn't warm up the air around my face. (No air conditioning though, that's my least fav, ew.)
Then I wiggle like a mofo for a while and after that I'm good to go. Zzzz
edit: Oh yeah, and a mouth guard thing because I grind my teeth in my sleep. ):
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Last edited by wigglyspider on 18 Aug 2009, 6:08 am, edited 1 time in total.
I actually hav eno idea, despite being a fairly bad sleeper. There are few patterns. I used to have to do a certain ritual, that was more like a compusion cause I repeated it so many tiems it was actually impairing me, of having to check everything (alarm clock, locks, etc.) before going to sleep. I can't even say I need no sound, because while this may be true, I will eventually sleep for a few hours even if there's some sound (eg. someone else playing music). My floor is like a disco, many wardmates playing loud music, and I've given up on complaining every night cause I am generally the one being told off.
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