I need to try this.

For most of my life I have gone to bed when totally exhausted.

I am trying to get to bed earlier when just 'tired' ..

Sleep is so important!

What I do, is to take Melatonin. It causes drowsiness and you can fall asleep faster. Melatonin is a natural incredient that the body produces to regulate sleep. As we age, the production is reduced.

One of the side effects is that it causes vivid dreams.

If you get the recommended 8 hrs per night, and live to be 90, you'll have spent a full 30 years of your life asleep. Complete waste of time. Just think of all the much more useful things you could accomplish with an extra 30 years in your lifetime.

Just the way muscles produce and build up toxins when they work, I recall reading a while ago that researchers had discovered that the brain does the same thing. But the brain does not have a lymphatic system to drain them out. When you sleep, channels actually open up in the brain to let the day's toxins be flushed out.

Medical science needs to invent a brain flush so we don't have to waste a third of our life asleep.

Doing what we do though lends it's self to marathon 18h sessions sleep 4 get up and back at it, or on the road no sleep at all
This is a tough business no matter what end of it you work in

Beware, for The Rock Clock tolls for YOU!!!

Great!

I use to try Valerian root to help me go to sleep and it worked for the most part. The dreams though were more than vivid, usually more like vivid nightmares. I might need to try Melatonin out if I get a spell of restless sleep.

I just got a king sized Casper bed memory foam.
As a person of correct weight with no health issues I sleep 8 solid.
Some times its kind of hard to get out of such a comfortable bed.

Before I had a spring mattress and I would over heat, toss and turn and was loosing my health.

I sleep like a high school kid, iv never slept past 9am in decades.
Last week I had a visitor come in, take a shower, ring the door bell. I slept right past the noise.



https://casper.com/

Those foam mattresses are nice! I've tested a couple in the past and they are quite comfortable.

Let's just hope that the next "visitor" isn't carrying a gun or a knife and wants to steal that fancy bed.

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I agree that I SHOULD sleep more,but performing 3-5 nights a week and then having to rise early to care for an elderly mother, is not an award winning combo.

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Installing f.lux has been a tremendous help. It reduces blue light on your screen/s as it gets darker outside. This is because Blue light prevents your body from producing Melatonin, which your screens can trick your body into thinking its still day time. The gradual change i.flux does is very sublet so your hardly ever notice it happening!

quitting alcohol also helps with good R.E.M sleep.
guy I know drinks a LOT and his sleep study said he wakes up 600 times a night.
Pretty much making him crazy.

Im always quitting alcohol, I quit every month!

As an older singer (53) I have discovered sleep is my voice's very best friend!

My wife is an "in bed by 10.30pm" kinda gal and usually I'm up 'till about 12.30am pottering around
but then still up at 6.30am to get the kids ready for school.

Lately I've been trying to go to bed at 10.30pm .... it makes a tremendous difference to my singing voice.

I am a big Faux fan too and night shift on my iPhone

Yea, I am like a kid at night that doesn't want to go to sleep. I guess I haven't out grown that urge to just stay up. Its so easy with the distractions we have these days. I really do wish I was more disciplined and got 8 hours every night and went to bed at a consistent hour. I need some ideas on how to do this.

Well it's past 4am here and i am past tired..

I just came across this thread and thought maybe i'll call it night - being
in the studio is cool though..







I gotta go now...

One of these days I am going to save up money for a nice bed. The best sleep I ever got was on a Sealy Posturepedic bed. Wrap up most of my gear buying by next year and then it's time to focus on getting a good bed.

By all means do that. Makes a world of difference.

What if you're NOT tired, though... What if you're tired in the morning, but by 'bedtime' you could happily hit the gym?

Pretty sure I have this. Even when I was a kid I could rarely sleep before 2am.

https://www.sleepassociation.org/pat...hase-syndrome/

I take Lithium Orotate for sleep because I am a chronic insomniac. I was hell on my mother, she says I`ve always been that way. I`ll stay up for 2 or 3 days. No drugs. I just have a severe case of it. It would be great, because I get great song ideas at 3-4AM. I usually act on them and go to work after. I have a great job at a college, and it`s a totally different culture than anywhere I`ve ever worked, well, I went to school to work there. But just laid back as hell. Like you may see on the news, they really coddle their employees the same way they do the students. I`m not like totally agreeing with what everything they do, but it`s defiantly best for me to sit down and shut up and keep this sweet gig.

My wife has the most bizarre routine: She will very often announce "I'm exhausted, I'm going to bed." And then she doesn't move. And then two or three hours later she's still in the exact same spot, wide awake...and still exhausted. Lather rinse repeat.

I came across this research as well. It changed my attitude to sleep by giving me a way to understand the value of the time spent.

I was an awful child/adolescent I'm many ways, my avoidance of sleep was, I now realise, both cause and effect of this (as well as being a natural PITA). Having had the process and consequences of 'brain flushing' explained to me in words of one syllable or less I now look forward to the time invested and the physical, cognitive and creative results.

Much more valuable than spending time in a gym and so much cheaper.

However, if you get the recommended 8 hours, you might actually make it to 90 - and you'll have done it with more energy, better cognitive function and ultimately more productivity - it works. When I get only 5 to 6 hours sleep, my output is much less than when I get a few good nights of 8 hour sleep.

As for the "hours" it robs from your life, you can find other activities that do that, like eating, watching tv, sitting in traffic, taking a crap ... that's all part of life, those hours are there to give up.... it's built-in to the design

I usually get in alittle more than 8 hours, but that's cuz I'm usually up for 15.

I think I was never cut out for the 24 hour day. I can stay awake very late, but then I'll sleep in late, then stay up later and if there's nothing to stop me, I would wind up sliding my bedtime an hour or two each day until next thing you know, I'm going to sleep at 10am.
I really think I need a 30 hour day.

Oh well.

Total blackout in a bedroom helps.

Also - the high frequency absorption properties of good blackout curtains (drapes) can be very useful and highly adjustable.

I'm actually looking at grabbing some Duvetine from one of my gigs and making a small blackout curtain for the window next to my head. Whenever a car pulls into my development at night, its headlights always flash across my window.