What do you do when you can't sleep?

Go-To-The-Extreme wrote: haha its on my LJ page X)

I love to read stories from other people so when you don´t mind....;)

I've two very good methods: 1.) Listen to an audiobook, preferably something in British English and concentrate on just listening - works like hell, 5 minutes and I am done. (For the best result I recommend Hercule Poirot) 2.) Lie down and watch a fortune-teller-tv-channel - there is nothing, nothing better than that - it beats the strongest sleeping pill. :P Well, I guess by now everybody's already asleep or has slept, but oh well, I wanted to share my awesome methods. :D

[QUOTE=Nikki;117593]I've two very good methods:

1.) Listen to an audiobook, preferably something in British English and
concentrate on just listening - works like hell, 5 minutes and I am done.
(For the best result I recommend Hercule Poirot)



I have tried this method too;) And it works really good to me ^^ But I began to hear it because I wanted to gain experiences in the right pronunciation in english .In the end....I only slept through it *,*

Mirichan wrote:


I have tried this method too;) And it works really good to me ^^ But I began to hear it because I wanted to gain experiences in the right pronunciation in english .In the end....I only slept through it *,*

Same here. :D
I thought I needed to polish my pronounciation a bit, but I never made it past the second chapter -
and I've listened to the same audiobook a dozen times.
Actually it works with most foreign languages, except Spanish, which is way too fast - but British English
has a very soothing vibe to it. ;)

I'm an insomniac, so I always have trouble sleeping. I just don't bother trying to go to bed until around 2 AM so that I will be utterly exhausted. But even then it can still take a long time to get to sleep.

I don't like to sleep, I think it is a waste of time, so I spend my nights mostly reading and sometimes I stay up watching a drama or a movie, or chatting on the IRC and posting here

When I have trouble sleeping...I just don;t sleep. I often have trouble falling asleep when I need to be somewhere very early in the morning-0 I am panicking I won't get up. So I sit down and do siomething, like reading, imagining that ok worst case scenario I am going to be a little walking zombie the next day and everyone's going to run away from me lol Somehow...I manage to fall asleep then. XD Scenario II : I have lots of work/ writing to do and it won't let me go to sleep. So an hour or two before I tyurn on a drama and it usually help me relax before I go to sleep.. (unless I stay on to watch a couple of episodes one after another....because the drama pulls me in so... but after a couple of episodes I am at least sure to fall asleep because my mind goes really relaxed after that. Also I am sure not to fall asleep if I drink green tea at night, so I try to drink only water past 8.pm.