Another sleepless night.

Well Brother Zurf, that's cryptic....

  Wazzup?  The kids having friends on a "sleepover" or somesuch?

  In the days before online gaming, our boys would have a bunch of friends over for LAN (local area network) game parties which were my sleepless nights.  Ranked right up there with "Camporee".  Kinda miss those days.

  Hope all is well with you and yours.

Take Care;
Doug

I do the same thing, Zurf.  I'll bet you can't close your mind down at night and keep thinking of ways to fix an issue.  I hate that.  My problem is not getting to sleep generally, but staying asleep for very long.  I continually wake up thinking about something.  I usually get 2-3 hours of deep sleep when I go to bed, but after that, I''m awake every half hour or so.  And one more thing I haven't done in many years is to be able to take a nap in the daytime.  I just can't do it.  Well, anyway, good luck and keep trying, bud.

Some times you just need to leave your work at work and home at home. I used to have the same problem but when i started refusing to think about work at home it all worked out. Relax and cast all of your cares on God and he will see that the weary gets rest.

Thanks Old Doll for those good hints.  Before I became Christian, I practiced a sort of mind-over-matter Taoism and learned a lot of body control tricks like those.  I have gotten sloppy and allowed my mind to become undisciplined. 

The rest of you, thanks for your concern.  You are all exactly right on target.  I cannot shut down my mind.  What I used to do is go downstairs to the family room and lay down on the couch.  I'd put some classical music on the TV and that would occupy my mind enough to permit me to get to sleep.  But right now my family room is stripped down to cement floor and cinder block foundation in preparation for remodeling so I can't do that.  I can't play music in the bedroom because that would wake my wife.  I can't play music in the living room because that would wake everyone.  So, I just sat and stared.  I've found a copy of The Hobbit that I'll read if it happens again tonight. 

- Zurf

I used to have a problem falling asleep my doctor prescribed ambian cr it comes in different strength doses but it works now I dont need it and I find that "happy hour" is a nice nap

Me! am just a "night owl"......nowt will make me sleep any longer than i need too not even the attentions of a good woman (meaning the wife)

Poor Nela just except yer never gonna be a "sleeping beauty" m8 and theres no fair maiden to kiss and wake you up sorry!!

Dont Stop Kid Keep Rockin'  !!

I'll have to check on that Kava Kava.  I sleep the same as NELA, always waking up and looking at the clock.  That three minutes sounds exhausting though.

Old Doll could probably give a lot more information about kava kava, the wealth of information she is about nutrition and herbal supplements. 

Here's what I know about it:
- It is the dried root of a pepper plant from the South Pacific, crushed to a fine powder.
- It is the substance used to make "grog" before the word was subsumed by sailors to mean rum.
- Grog ceremonies have been a tradition in South Pacific native cultures, especially Fiji, as long as there's been a South Pacific native culture.
- The U.S. FDA discovered that if you feed a rat nothing but kava root, and then enough to make a glutton of him, for an extended period of time that the rats develop kidney and liver problems. 
- Biologically speaking, I have a lot more in common with South Pacific natives than with laboratory rats. 
- After countless generations of use by South Pacific native cultures, the only side effect of excessive use seems to be 'lizard skin.'  Which is also a side effect of substantial sun exposure, which also occurs in South Pacific native cultures. 

So, use caution, as you naturally would with any sort of supplement.  Remember that it is not controlled by FDA or other government agency.  Use at your own risk.  It can make you kind of loopy, so if you choose to use it, use it at home until you know how it affects you.  I used to use a brand that I took two pills.  The current brand, I took two pills and Holy Moley I felt like I had just downed a pint or five of something strong.  So I use only one pill at a time of that brand.  The main things it does for me is that it is a stress reducer similar to alcohol in effect (but without the other effects of alcohol like slowed reaction times, reduced inhibitions, stupidity, or in severe cases pregnancy) and it also is a vaso-regulator.  With the blood-thinning and vaso-regulating effects of aspirin, I find that it can head off a migraine if taken early enough.  That's how I use it. 

Just type kava kava into your favorite search engine and settle down for a lot of reading.  Be wary of the "articles" that are ads for a particular brand or product or method.   It is unregulated, so don't take any one manufacturer's word on anything.  Put your cynic goggles on.  Buy only from a source you trust. 

- Zurf

Sorry to hear you are having sleep problems, did you see a doctor. have you tried a little whisky or otc sleep aids.

Ooooohhhhhh dino.  I have definitely tried a little whiskey.  I have not tried any OTC sleep aids, aside from the kava kava. 

Doug, that's pretty funny, but no by source you trust I mean someone who will sell a good quality product and stand behind it.  Kava kava is legal.  However, the first I used of it, it was contraband smuggled in by a friend of mine who served in the South Pacific in the Peace Corps and wanted to bring back enough for a grog ceremony to show his friends what it was like.  We had a BLAST.  There's a million internet sources that are less expensive than the health food store where I buy mine, but I know that the owners of this health food store are sensitive to only carrying good quality products.  So I trust them and it's worth the extra money, especially with how infrequently I use the stuff. 

- Zurf