Posted on 02/27/2023 7:21:16 AM PST by ConservativeMind
My daughter suffers from insomnia and has tried any number of remedies.
She loves when ignorant articles like this come out and tell her that the solution to not sleeping well is to sleep more.
The key is to fall asleep right away so you can get that "deep sleep" phase behind you.
I find that taking a long walk on a regular basis (any time during the day) helps. Also, no snacking after dinner. I also don't have a TV on. Maybe some music.
Welp, I’m screwed. If I get 4 hours it’s been a really good night.
Ambien, Sonata, nothing helps now. Tried everything that you can list for years, can’t shut my brain down.
I think I’d rather stay awake during my teens, twenties and thirties than gain a handful of years in my eighties or nineties.
My daughter in law too. But in some ways she likes not sleeping because she gets a lot of work done. So I believe she has trained her brain in how she sets her priorities. When she has a quiet week or goes on vacation, she doesn’t have the same problem. My dr told me once he thought I was afraid to sleep and lose control of those hours. After much contemplation and many years, I believe he was right.
My daughter in law too. But in some ways she likes not sleeping because she gets a lot of work done. So I believe she has trained her brain in how she sets her priorities. When she has a quiet week or goes on vacation, she doesn’t have the same problem. My dr told me once he thought I was afraid to sleep and lose control of those hours. After much contemplation and many years, I believe he was right.
Don’t take the experimental mRNA gene therapy treatment can help you live longer too.
Get a new mattress every 10 to 15 years, in my opinion.
good advice.
Is it possible that the factors that cause insufficient sleep also cause early death? One’s illness interferes with sleep.
Is the study confusing causation with correlation?
I don’t have any problem. I’m usually out cold within a few minutes of getting into bed, sleep a solid 8, get up, go to the bathroom and lay down again for another 1-1.5 hours.
Of course, I’m retired with nothing to do and all day to get it done, so I get up when I want..
I suffer from insomnia, and I agree. A good night’s sleep is beneficial? Who woulda thunk? Idiotic article.
Hmmmm, I must have died years ago.
“I’m a believer in this. I used to have lousy sleep habits. Since getting a solid 8 hours a night, I feel so much better. You don’t even have to sleep the full eight hours, just stay in bed. Often I’ll wake up after about five hours of solid sleep and then drift in and out of sleep over the next three hours, having some very vivid dreams. This has become my favorite part of the night. I wake up very rested too.”
I’m one of the zillion people: Who often wake up at 3 am and may not go back to sleep.
A good friend’s fp told her to just stay in bed and try not
to think of anything. That works well with my wife and I.
This woman is a widow with no living relatives in this area.
Her surviving family lives about a 120 miles south of Portland. So during one of her awake at 3 am sessions, she decided to sell her current home and buy one near her relatives in Oregon.
Her home sold without going on the market, and a niece has helped her to buy a nice 2 bedroom home.
She and her dog will be moving north this week.
Also, she has been sleeping through the night since making her decision to relocate near her family in Oregon.
Having a large Maine Coon cat take up residence at the top of one’s pillow and slap their huge plumy tail across your face like a metronome is NOT beneficial to falling asleep. Having said Maine Coon cat engage a smaller rescue cat in a cat tornado across one’s bed in the early a.m. hours is NOT conducive to staying asleep. But somehow, I manage.
“Get a new mattress every 10 to 15 years, in my opinion.”
Every 3-5 years, we buy a high quality 4-5” name brand thick bed/mattress pad and put it on top of the old spring mattress. Then, we rotate it monthly on the old mat so what was at our feet is now at our head. Every six months we turn it over on the old mattress.
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