On Friday, May 23, 2014 1:25:21 PM UTC-4, jmcquown wrote:
> On 5/23/2014 11:29 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
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> > On 2014-05-23 11:05 AM, jmcquown wrote:
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> >> Better this than sleeping pills. It's been a while (knock wood) since I
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> >> had a bad bout of insomnia. I can't credit the machine, per se, but
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> >> trying to sleep without some sort of background noise would be almost
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> >> impossible.
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> > There were nights that I had trouble getting to sleep. I would toss and
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> > turn and fret about not getting enough sleep because I had to get up
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> > early in the morning to go to work. I came to realize that I was not
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> > awake as long as I feared. Somewhere along the line I learned not to
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> > worry about it and slept better.
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> Everyone is different. I'd find myself awake around 2:30AM. I know I'd
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> lightly doze, but I'd still wake up and look at the clock every thirty
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> minutes or so. When this happens I don't fall into a really deep sleep
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> until around 5AM. The alarm would go off an hour and a half later.
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> When this happens, I do not feel rested.
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> > I also learned not to drink coffee in the evening. One small cup of
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> > coffee after dinner... before 7 pm. It also helps to get lots of
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> > physical exercise.
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> I don't drink coffee anymore. When I did, I never drank it in the
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> evening. Admittedly, I should get more exercise. Still, I've been
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> sleeping much better the last few weeks. I can't attribute it to
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> anything specific. I'm just grateful to feel rested when I wake up.
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> Jill

Why? You ain't got shit to do.