How do you go to sleep?

United States
March 18, 2008 12:55pm CST
Do you read, watch TV, listen to music? Have a sound machine? Do you need it completely dark? Etc...I'm sure you get what I'm asking. :) I am usually on the computer until very late, sometime watching TV. I'm pretty tired when I do go to bed so I fall asleep right away. If I am having trouble falling asleep, I usually drink some warm milk and it really does help.
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@kiran1978 (4134)
• Australia
19 Mar 08
I used to watch tv before I go to bed, now I am like you up on computer most nights till really late. So I do not find it hard to go to sleep now, as computer tend to tire me out and my eyes shut easily when I hit the pillow. My daughter likes to listen to music when falling asleep, I do not know how she does it, that would keep me awake, as I would just want to sing along to the songs, lol.
• United States
18 Mar 08
I am also usually on the computer until very late at night, either studying or doing some work, so it's usually pretty easy because I'm pretty sleepy by the time I lay down. Usually, I can just sleep. Sometimes I leave the TV on and set the sleep timer because I can't sleep, but other than that I can hit the pillow and fall asleep almost instantly.
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• Greece
19 Mar 08
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@balasri (26537)
• India
18 Mar 08
I aways have th TV for myself at 10 pm everyday.I watch my favorites or DVDs make myself tired and go to bed by 12 daily.
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@aretha (2538)
• United States
19 Mar 08
i normally have the tv on. it don't take me long to fall asleep but for some reason i need the tv on. if i have no tv it takes me forever to get to sleep.
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• United States
18 Mar 08
For me, it's a toss up between reading or watching t.v. and my room has to have some type of light (except for the lamp) because at one time, I was afraid of the dark so what I usually do is leave the t.v. on but the volume must be low, I say my prayers and then I turn on my side and go to sleep. I wouldn't mind doing it now however,
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@obidan (367)
• Romania
29 Apr 08
I'm usually on the computer till late at night, sleep just comes to me, but if i can't sleep I just watch something on TV, maybe Stargate on the DVD - Player . Usually it helps to of had a consuming/exhausting day...but that's not usually the case for me
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@icyorchid (2564)
• United States
30 Apr 08
We go to sleep about 11 or midnight and I usually fall asleep fast, I am usually tired or in pain when we get in bed. We sleep with the TV on. Hubby has to have noise to sleep. Now I was never like that and I had to get use to going to sleep with the TV on. lol Now that the dr. gave me pain pills and muscle relaxers, I sleep a long time. lol Ex: WE got in bed around Midnight last night, I woke up around 1:30am I heard something, not sure what, nothing was there. lol So I went back to sleep. Hubby woke me up at 6:30 so he could fix the sofa sleeper and I laid back down on the sofa sleeper and after he left for work, I went back to sleep and slept untill 11:00am!!! I never sleep that long. lol It was like I couldn't wake up, so if the same thing happens tomorrow, I will cut the pill in half (they are pretty small though).
• United States
18 Mar 08
For me its actually pretty hard to sleep. I can't drink milk and someone else is usually on the computer late at night, and when Im not working graveyard shift....I actually have to do a relaxation thing a friend had taught me. I lay in bed close my eyes, and slowly keep thinking the word calm while relaxing different parts of my body. Most of the time it works but there are the times that it doesnt :( and those are hard because I normally have to get up very early in the morning.
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• India
18 Mar 08
I like to watch T.V. But I have to switch it off so that it won't others. So I usually read books. I like my room to be dark. I cannot tolerate even a little light. I like to listen to music but I just have a radio and the transmission stops at 11.00 p.m.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
30 Apr 08
I mylot too late then go to bed and try to read myself to sleep which usually does not work so maybe the hot milk might help and let me get some sleep and sometimes I am awake for hours and i hate this as its a kind of insomnia for sure.then I sleeplate in the morning. just cannot seem to win.
@Ldyjarhead (10233)
• United States
18 Mar 08
I usually have a book beside my bed and more often than not will read until I know I can go to sleep. Sometimes if Tom and I are both awake and have one of our silly talks, I can go to sleep easily without the book, but that's the exception rather than the rule.
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• United States
30 Apr 08
i sleep when its dark and quite