[colorcountry]

Have at it.

[Ceewrighter]

Why waste time? Use it to do the work that you won't have time to do tomorrow 'cause you'll be too sleepy. All your work must be done on site, you say?

Here's a few alternatives: Read a good book. Continue writing that book. Start your family tree.

There are really tons of things to do besides alternating between porn sites and this post, dude.

[mmercier]

I get up.

Never been able to sleep properly, night terrors. Had a bad one yesterday and was afraid to fall asleep last night.

I drank a half dozen margaritas and caught four hours though.

[The Phantom FReeper]

In your night table, store a CD player and a CD with speeches by John Kerry burned on it. When you get insomnia, just start listening to that, and you'll be in blissful, coma-like sleep for hours.

[RightOnline]

FReep. Do emails (biz and personal).

[mtbopfuyn]

Dust quietly.

[mware]

In the words of Bing Crosby, in White Christmas,

When your troubled and you can't sleep,

Just count your blessings instead of sheep.

And you'll go to sleep counting your blessings.

[paudio]

Watch some TV, read a magazine, drink a glass of warm milk, take a shower, put some relaxing music. The last thing you want to do is starring at your monitor screen, hoping for new 'exciting' posts on FR.

[irishtenor]

I'm at work, so I nap.

[jennyjenny]

Usually when I can't get to sleep (or back to sleep) it's because I'm thinking of all the things I have to do the next day or two. So, I make a list of things I have to get done. For some reason getting them on to paper and off my mind helps me relax and go back to sleep. If that doesn't work, I turn on the golf channel.

[angkor]

As I get older I'm finding that one continuous 8-hour sleep doesn't happen anymore. Not often, anyway. But the key is, I've stopped worrying about it, just accept it as ...whatever. But my tolerance for laying in bed and and tossing and turning is about zero.

So when I can't sleep or wake up for whatever reason at 2:00 or 3:00AM, I get up and read blogs until I'm sleepy again. There are millions of them out there, and I've found some really nifty ones that are worth bookmarking and coming back to later.

There's no way I could or would want to be "productive" during my nocturnal wakeups. Reading blogs is a low-stress, inconsequential way of passing the time until I'm sleepy again.

[carlr]

If you have any kind of light in the bedroom(clock,power is on light from a VCR,DVD,computer)try to stare at it and concentrate on keeping your eyes open.
This will take your mind off whatever it is in high gear over.

[dakine]

Get a life, or two...

[Robert A Cook PE]

Toss

Turn

Go to the bathroom

Get a drink of water

Stretch (Lay down on couch, Read something non-political)

Toss

Turn (Lay down on couch, Read something non-political)

Get up

Log on to FreeRepublic

Read the "Latest News" and "Word of the Day" (not much going on at 4:00 a.m.)

(Lay down on couch, Read something non-political)

[alwaysconservative]

Have paper and pen handy and write down all the busy thoughts in your mind. I journal before going to sleep (mostly, and when I forget, if I wake up during the night, I do my journal entries then), and usually that works for me.

Reading non-fiction.

Make sure your hands and feet are warm. For some strange reason, if your hands and feet are warm, you'll sleep more easily; at least that is what I've found.

My mom's remedy: think about how badly you won't want to get up in the morning, how good your pillow feels, and pretty soon you're snoozing away.

Good luck!

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Listen to the stupid Coast-to-Coast am. I usually enjoy it. They're nuts.

[PJ-Comix]

Sometimes I watch the tube for awhile. Usually I get sleepy again after about 40 minutes. However, I find the BEST way to get to sleep is to flip the radio on to a late night talk radio station while lying in bed. Usually I will doze off again within half an hour.

Ultimately what I would like to do is find a sound system/recording that replicates a thunderstorm. I always sleep well in thunderstorms so perhaps if I could replicate that.

[lrb111]

I take 3 3mg melatonin and 3 generic TylenolPM (Equate brand from Walmart.)

I've become "used" to them so they take a little over an hour to take effect. I'm asleep by 10:15 every night. Awake at 7 am everyday.

For someone not used to them, simply taking one or two of the 3mg melatonin does the trick. On the shelf at Wal-Mart and any other pharmacy or food store.

[Maximus of Texas]

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Hey! Wake Up!!!!


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[Lazamataz]

"What Do You Do When You Can't Sleep"

Have at it.

Precisely.

[avg_freeper]

Being a man there's always one activity that I can rely on to put me to sleep afterwords.

Though, my wife has told me she likes to be at least woken up and asked before I start.