Difficulty Sleeping.

[PaxVobiscum]

On my old phone I keep about 30 minutes of a sound file recorded in my compartment on one of my first trips on the Euston to Glasgow Central Caledonian Sleeper about 12 years ago.

It works for me (perhaps because I could always sleep well on the old Mk 3 sleeper), though others even on these forums may find it a bit weird Here’s 30 seconds’ worth:

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[Geezertronic]

On my old phone I keep about 30 minutes of a sound file recorded in my compartment on one of my first trips on the Euston to Glasgow Central Caledonian Sleeper about 12 years ago.

It works for me (perhaps because I could always sleep well on the old Mk 3 sleeper), though others even on these forums may find it a bit weird Here’s 30 seconds’ worth:

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I suffer from Tinitus - have done since I was very young - so deathly silence is not something I cope with very well. I can fall asleep with the TV on as background noise, plus I live on a main road so it is never usually quiet round here.

 

[BrokenSam]

Apparently the worst beer gives the best hangover.

Challenge accepted

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I've got our room totally blacked out... and I mean totally... there are blackout linings on the already thick curtains, which are topped by a pelmet and overlap the window frames by some margin. I even cover up the light on my alarm clock and place a DVD case in front of the light on the upstairs television ( to switch it off at the mains would involve reaching down behind the chest of drawers but would also affect the settings on it ).

Most nights I'm up late anyway, so I guess being knackered most of the time helps me to get to sleep as well.

 

[ChrisC]

There are some good podcasts which help me drift off. I play them at a very low volume but just enough to be audible. It's been useful in helping me track how long it takes to get to sleep.. listening again to the same episode the next day and see how much of it I remember.

I find having the radio on at a very low volume really works too. Always a speech based station without music at a volume level that I can just about hear but really have to concentrate. I put the sleep timer on for 60 minutes and I am usually asleep before it turns off.

 

[johnnychips]

I just accept now that there are some nights I can’t get to sleep, or wake up at about four and can’t go back to sleep. It doesn’t seem to affect my job (teaching) then the night after I usually sleep well. I think a bad mindset to get into is ‘if I fall asleep now I’ll get at least four hours sleep’ because you invariably don’t.