What do you do when you can’t sleep?
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What do you do when you cant sleep? I have been up many nights these past few weeks suffering with mild insomnia. Due to the lack of late night entertainment on the television I have found myself to be stuck at my desk surfing the net.
Over this period of time I have discovered a few uses of being up so late; While everybody else is sleeping you have better chances of winning near ending auctions on ebay and other auction sites. Also if like me your Internet connection is not a 1:1 contention ratio then you may notice that your download speeds are a lot quicker as you now have no one else hogging your bandwidth enabling you to download files much quicker than during the day.
So if your a night owl or your struggling to sleep, why not use this for your advantage and catch yourself some late night bargains and utilize your Internet connection.
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Keeheon
June 13th, 2008
at 8:02pm
Lol Chris, I do the exact same thing
Oak
June 15th, 2008
at 4:12am
If you’re having trouble sleeping, I learned a trick from a hypnotist that seems to work great. Start counting backwards from 100 and forward in the alphabet line and repeat a phrase like “body relax”. It goes like this:
100, a, Body relax
99, b, body relax
98, c, body relax
…
If you lose track of where you are due to wandering thoughts or sleep cycles hitting you but not knocking you all the way out, just start over. Sometimes you’ll lose track of which alphabet letter you’re on but just keep going with whatever you think it is. This works because the mind can only hold so many things in it at a time and by going in two different directions it’s enough of a mental strain that you can’t consciously think about other things like all the stuff you’ve got to do the next day. (keep a pad by your bed to jot those down so you don’t stress yourself about what needs done).
mikey
June 15th, 2008
at 2:22pm
I used to get a lot of reading done, but I saw too many sunrises that way. The cure for me was . The wildest entertainment available. From UFOs to kooks to scientists to Jesus. Listen on your local (usually AM) radio station or break down and subscribe to the streaming audio and broadcast it around your own house/apt. commercial free. I find that ear buds are not uncomfortable, but sometimes I use a pillow speaker. Beware: it can be addictive… Now I sleep better (thanks to a CPAP, see your article about apnea) but I stay up late to listen to it anyway, at least some of the time!