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Just a place for general discussion. A place to unload whats on your mind and talk about anything - personal, health, help needed, achievements, daily highs and daily lows, theories, predictions and what have you.
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I've had to use my weighted blanket for the past couple of nights and I am sore. It's a workout just to sleep. 😆 I took melatonin last night and slept until 5:00; that's better than 2:20 the night before!
Magnesium is good to help you sleep..so is nutmeg..but be careful..a few swipes with a greater in your hot chocolate is plenty... dangerous to overdose.
I found hayfever tablets the drowsy sort better than sleeping pills for me.
Benadryl helps me sleep. I can’t take melatonin, because I get really intense demonic dreams. Always have. I stay away from that stuff
The same thing happens to me and I can't take it for that reason! Valerian root is good, though...
I need to check out magnesium. I don't think I take it.
Or watch a golf tournament on TV. Beautiful weather, low action, everybody whispering. Great sleep stimulator.
Did the weighted blanket make you sore? I'm asking because I can't use mine, lol. It's so heavy everything hurts, back hips ankles knees it's awful.
It's interesting you say 2:20... I wake up around then a lot, and others I know have mentioned that in conversations... it's weird. 'Like I slept awful' "me too - up at 2:30' 'ya shoulda called I was up then too' kinda thing.
ME TOO! I’m lucky if I get to sleep, and then if I don’t I’m up till 230. L O L but my mom is the same way. Sometimes I’ll toss and turn, then I’ll get up to go to the bathroom, and she still up sitting at her computer. She’s 82! She has an account year though so I’m sure she’s busy here sometimes lol
It does make me sore. It keeps me warm, but it is heavy. I like it, though.
When I go through my own sleepless pattern, I usually wake up around that time. If I sleep through it, my husband gets up to use the bathroom, and I wake up. There's something about that time!
Definitely, 2:00 is the point of no return for going back to sleep. Lol
I put a electric blanket in the bed, and heat it up before (and shut it off and unplug it before I get in... cozy:) lol
I have two bedjets. They blow warm or cool air between your sheets. Heavenly. It also takes the weight of the blankets off your toes.
That sounds delightful! We may still have our blanket. I need to check for it.
Have you tried a heated throw rug instead of the weighted blanket ?
I usually use a nicely thin comforter and fold it double so it's thicker, but it was colder for a couple nights this week, our heat was turned down low, and my husband insisted on using the fan. I had to use the weighted one. I have others I use as well so I can throw them off if I get too hot.
If you are going to waken in the middle of the night, it is always around that time, seems very common. I read somewhere a long time ago, it is the hour when we should pray, in the ancient monastic times, it was called Matins. Try lighting a candle and say the Lords Prayer, and repeat the mantra, "Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have Mercy on me, a sinner". Over and over, it may help. Try to resist turning on your phone, or puter or whatever screen you prefer, it will not help. 3 am is an Angelic hour.
Thank you for that! Every now and then, when I do wake up and when he is still asleep, I will get up and get on my tablet. I do try to make it a priority to pray and relax, if I'm going to be awake.