What Helps Put You To Sleep?

My main source of entertainment is gone. Use to play till I crashed. Not having much luck with other games and movies right now either.

What is everyone's way of getting tired?

Not sleeping for longer than I should

Booze and or all sorts of drugs.

Turning myself away from things that stimulate the senses. Also I lay down, even if I'm still doing something. Set my alarm. Don't think about sleep.

Sometimes we pick our avatars and sometimes our avatars pick us :)

valium x2 and Ambien x2 lolz j/k

Music. I usually just chill out to some jazz... And a cold/dark room. I say dark because I work overnight, so I have blankets and stuff on my window to make it dark during the day.

/hi5. I use towels myself but gets the job done

Put on a movie I've seen a mil times, think of things I don't have the energy to do, put on some slow easy music *fiona apple, kate earl, portishead*, start a playlist of a "lets play" on utube of a game I've played or watched tons of times.

I have to have some sort of noise going on, and my gf prefers silence.. kinda sucks lol.

I used to work overnights too, ***sucked for a while trying to sleep in the day.. but then I got to a point I could only sleep during the day. Vicious cycle

I would suggest picking up a reasonable sleeping pattern while you can't game.

when i was younger country music put me to sleep.
now a days i'm up til i crash unless i'm sick then i try to sleep but never seems to work out that well.
/sips monster

...(hmm...)

This plus autoreplay with chrome = best sleep ever.

i've drank so many energy drinks i dont crash anymore, i swapped one addiction for another.

Yeah... Now I'm basically on that cycle, can only sleep during the day, so my days off are interesting. But meh, I like the hours, and my job lets me get my school work done at school, so no problem.


I have a big *** like, 7 foot x 7 foot window right in the middle of the outer wall of my room... Towels wouldn't work too well :x

Oh yes...

I use several per window. I like it cause they thicker than most blankies

i use black curtains they generally do the trick, if not i whip my dreads in my face and ya

Didn't know such a thing existed hah.

As for the blankets in windows, I use that idea too. Sun sets on that side of the house and glare on the monitor/wakes me up from naps.

have sex :D
if not an option, read manga.

Why not do both? At the same time?

Bi-winning!

Bondage talk always helps before bed.(or Bondage itself)

sleeping pills and Vodka

I know it's a huge cliche but I somewhat find warm milk or hot chocolate before bed helps me unwind.

I've always had trouble sleeping, the only expection being like as the OP said, playing FFXI till I crashed of some other event like that. I've always mocked walm milk as I thought it was just a typical wife's tale sort of thing but I thought to myself, why not eh?
I'm still unsure if it actually helps, however I treat the whole act of getting hot chocolate as a start button for winding down before finally hitting the hay.

Another thing I find useful is drawing. Just simple loose sketches mind you, it keeps your mind slightly busy and relaxed so you're not lying in bed, calculating how many hours of sleep you could have if you feel asleep right at that moment ._.
Just don't get too involved in what you're doing... I've ended up pulling all nighters because I got really into what I was working on.

Also don't do any strainous exercise a few hours before you go to bed, learned that out the hard way.

tl; dr

- walk milk/hot chocolate
- drawing
- no exercise before bed

I'm having the same problem. I am an insomniac anyway so no FFXI has created a real boredom problem for me late night/early hours of the morning. I have been trying a supplement called Melatonin to help me sleep, but so far it doesn't seem to work at all >.<

Gin and Tonic.

I normally pass out after a few hours.

I see how it is!