Struggling to fall asleep

[Grower Tesque]

Normally I had no problem falling asleep, but over the last month or so when I go to bed I can't get to sleep, it's almost like my brain goes to overdrive and I have all kinds of thoughts gong through my head.
I'm not helping myself as i'm on my laptop all evening until bed, but never been a problem til recently, people have suggested reading a book but i'm not convinced as when I was younger I had the radio on and that kept me awake too.
I have a feeling it's stress of the weather and being behind with work that's the problem is the issue, it's driving my missus crazy and she's suggested I sleep downstairs.
Short of alcohol or tablets I don't know what to do.

 

[spin cycle]

being on here/laptop is not the best for unwinding....could try a bath last thing

 

[Lincs Lass]

Big mug of hot chocolate an hour before you go up the wooden hill ,,it works wonders

 

[ARW]

I once tried a note pad by the bed of jobs that kept me thinking, after about ten pages of a4 in 2 nights I was suicidal!
Eat a banana before bed, have a routine, failing that, read which pickup thread

 

[simmy_bull]

But some sheep. Tup them in batches to spread lambing over three or four months. Problem solved for part of the year at least!!

 

[Dr. Alkathene]

Turn the laptop off an hour before bed time, don’t look at your phone either.

 

[GTB]

I don't have trouble going to sleep as long as the TV is on, just to take my mind off the day's problems but I often wake up at 3/4am and there's no way I can get back to sleep then. Usually nod off about 5.55 and my alarm goes off at 6. The worst thing about waking up in the early hours is not being to do anything about it without waking the rest of the house up so usually end up staring into the darkness with all sorts of things going through my mind...

 

[simmy_bull]

I don't have trouble going to sleep as long as the TV is on, just to take my mind off the day's problems but I often wake up at 3/4am and there's no way I can get back to sleep then. Usually nod off about 5.55 and my alarm goes off at 6. The worst thing about waking up in the early hours is not being to do anything about it without waking the rest of the house up so usually end up staring into the darkness with all sorts of things going through my mind...

Could you put the tv back on quietly?

I’m the same I usually put something on the tv or even on YouTube on my phone on the bedside table just some sort of background noise and I fall asleep in five mins unless I’ve seriously got something worrying me on my mind.

 

[Grower Tesque]

BTW, I do feel my problem are a bit trivial, which I do feel embarrassed about compared to the sheep farmers amongst us who are having a hellish time lambing in this weather

 

[Spartacus]

Could you put the tv back on quietly?

I’m the same I usually put something on the tv or even on YouTube on my phone on the bedside table just some sort of background noise and I fall asleep in five mins unless I’ve seriously got something worrying me on my mind.

You live in Yorkshire, you've always got something you worry about!

 

[GTB]

Could you put the tv back on quietly?

I have tried it but the light from the TV wakes my wife and as you can guess she's not too happy about that, not that I blame her.

 

[MrNoo]

Just get rid of the mrs!! No trouble here but like the post above, often wake at 3-30/4-30 and that's it, struggle to go back to sleep, if I do then I always oversleep and wake up like a bear with a sore head. I always find drinking plenty of water seems to help for some reason re going to sleep, I usually have a pint of water before I go to bed but when I forget I sometimes struggle to get to sleep. I know it may not be ideal but seems to work for me

 

[Pan mixer]

I have a Kindle, one of the old ones with a little tiny streetlamp out the front.

I read the classics - Dickens etc, at the moment it is Rider Haggard - complete works (which is brilliant by the way) Samuel Pepys diary - that took nearly a year. Most of these are free or less than a pound.

Anyway the kindle automatically turns off after 10 minutes of not turning a page, I rarely turn it off by hand, I always fall asleep.

The tiny light is good to read by and it doesn't wake the dragon on the other side of the bed.

Revolutionised my sleeping patterns, I daren't ask the current Mrs Pm if it has made me a better person though as she tends to be a little reticent when asked that kind of question.

 

[Hilly]

Normally I had no problem falling asleep, but over the last month or so when I go to bed I can't get to sleep, it's almost like my brain goes to overdrive and I have all kinds of thoughts gong through my head.
I'm not helping myself as i'm on my laptop all evening until bed, but never been a problem til recently, people have suggested reading a book but i'm not convinced as when I was younger I had the radio on and that kept me awake too.
I have a feeling it's stress of the weather and being behind with work that's the problem is the issue, it's driving my missus crazy and she's suggested I sleep downstairs.
Short of alcohol or tablets I don't know what to do.

Its stress, you probably dont even relies your stressed not until your de stressed again its horrendous.

 

[Kidds]

BTW, I do feel my problem are a bit trivial, which I do feel embarrassed about compared to the sheep farmers amongst us who are having a hellish time lambing in this weather

It's not trivial, your missus has told you to go sleep somewhere else. Far from trivial.
I reckon it will pass once we get a bit of warm dry weather and you catch up a bit. I suffer sometimes from similar and one night last week I was up til 3:30.
Tonight I'm knacked and off to bed right now.

 

[kill]

Big mug of hot chocolate an hour before you go up the wooden hill ,,it works wonders

Wooden hill????? I have lived in a bungalow for 35years and I am sure I am not alone

 

[Grower Tesque]

It's not trivial, your missus has told you to go sleep somewhere else. Far from trivial.
I reckon it will pass once we get a bit of warm dry weather and you catch up a bit. I suffer sometimes from similar and one night last week I was up til 3:30.
Tonight I'm knacked and off to bed right now.

I feel it's trivial as I don't feel stressed during the day, it's just when i'm try to fall asleep it become a problem

 

[Lincs Lass]

Wooden hill????? I have lived in a bungalow for 35years and I am sure I am not alone

It could be a dorma bedroom

 

[fudge]

I feel it's trivial as I don't feel stressed during the day, it's just when i'm try to fall asleep it become a problem

Well you see it as a problem which means it isn't trivial. Stress can be very debilitating if you don't do something about it. Time out/away from work is very important. For me getting physical exercise helps me sleep, I ride a push bike, it's surprising how sedentary farming has become!

 

[mo!]

Have a cool/tepid shower before bed. And ditch the screens for an hour or so. I've stopped drinking tea after 7 as well, it stays in your system for a long time.