I don't want to know if you take pills. Rather what do you do when sleep doesn't come.
When sleep doesn't come, have you strategies?
Does it happen to you to get up in the middle of the night to write down a musical idea in case you won't remember it 'tomorrow' when you wake up?
Gilles Deleuze: fatigue as a vital process, a creative life as a self-destruction process.
Could insomnia be the best muse? A source of inspiration or desperation?

 

I always sleep pretty well. 8-10 hours a night. I often wake up during my sleep periods with solutions to problems. I always keep a pen and notebook by the bed.
I don't usually wake with musical ideas. My solutions are usually for everyday problems, software/hardware or other technical stuff.

 

No need for pills, just a few beers, not every day, and not too many so you don't have a hangover the next day. I sleep 6 to 7 hours a night, unless I've been awake for a long time the day before, then I sleep 8 to 9 hours tops.

 

personally no. a lack of sleep doesnt help me in anyway in life - one of the worst things about touring is trying to get good sleep, i just cant create a routine for my body. at first i would try sleep aids but i have a high tolerance for everything, so i started to see that would be a problem. i was talking with another artist that had been touring way longer than me; and he taught me box breathing. its like this technique U.S. Navy Seals use to regulate their nervous system in combat, really helpful after a show when my adrenaline has me turned up

that has been the most helpful for me personally, i always do that till i fall asleep if i cant sleep normally. cause i know if i dont get enough sleep, my next day is fucked. if i get an idea while im trying to sleep i let it go, ill get more. if its good enough ill remember it when i wake up usually

 

been a irregular sleeper my whole life my cycle has always averaged 1.5 days to every 1 earth day ,these days if i cant sleep i just accept it and take my headphones and laptop or other music device to bed and write more music in bed, i find i come up with some of my best stuff whilst in this relaxed horizontal mode

 

One word: exercise.

 

Ok, exercise of what?

 

most of my music i made was during late night hours... my mind works the best at night, when its dark and quet.

 

As one of our great philosophers (Aurora) said:
If you go to bed early and get up early you are considered healthy. But it's frowned upon if you go to bed late and sleep late.