It sounds banal, but this has helped me in a situation (example outside of "Musical Creativity"): Let's say there's something important coming up the next morning, now you cant fall in to sleep and you find yourself (possibly because of it) starting to get angry, which clearly worsens the situation! THEN: I get up and stand quite close to a wall and fix my gaze on a white spot. I do this statically for about 5-8 minutes (which can be long because we're not dealing with anything that triggers us). Then I slowly go to bed and, curiously enough, I also feel as if I've done something (major) (like when you normally go to the couch and say "Ahhhhh"). And honestly, it has often helped (for me) and is still the first-choice remedy!

I must point out that this will definitely NOT work if you have previously drunk crystal meth base from a plastic wine bottle (which I have not tried, but the lay doctor in me knows it )

 

Hello @Lois Lane, thank you for your report. The following occurred to me: When I was young, I was given a book about yoga, and in it was a report by the yoga teacher. Whenever she was on an airplane and noticed that she was getting weaker/less energetic, she would get up and lie down flat on the floor in the aisle between the rows of seats.

All the passengers were amazed. After 10 minutes, she would get up again and be full of energy and strong again. She described not sleeping, but consciously relaxing and breathing calmly. I've kept this tip to this day, and when I'm feeling tired, I lie flat on my back for 10 minutes and relax. It helps and it works.

One more note about illnesses: There's a method of spiritual healing where you consciously try to focus on the illness or the specific area for 30 minutes. The trick is not to focus directly on the painful or diseased area, but rather on the surrounding healthy tissue, cells, etc. After a few weeks or months, you can usually notice a slight improvement.

Get well soon, dear Lois Lane, and my thoughts are with you!

 

Lack of sleep has a stimulating effect on me for the first or the two first days. Then, it produces a bad come down. Not sleeping at all is only detrimental.

 

It's the opposite for me. Until I had a child at 45 the moment my head hit the pillow I was gone. As a 15 y.o. one night during summer camp about 16 guys had a war between the two bunks which were connected. It raged on for what I was told was about a half hour. I was totally unconscious throughout and even woke in the morning wrapped like a mummy in a dozen rolls of toilet paper with no idea how I got that way. Conversely, it was almost impossible to rouse me in the morning. My Dad before he headed out to work would have to open my window wide in the middle of winter, snatch away my blanket and loudly say to me...GET UP BOY AND GO TO SCHOOL!!! It was truly the only way, and even then it was almost impossible to take my head off of the pillow. It didn't work nearly as well in the warm weather so he would turn on my Radio Shack Realistic stereo and blast it at 9 or 10. That worked a charm though was most probably the kick off of hearing loss (as well as all the indoor stadium concerts that I used to frequent like The Grateful Dead, Queen and The Beach Boys, etc)

 

I force myself to stay in bed until I fall asleep even if I feel like pulling an all-nighter. There is strong evidence that there's a causal relationship between insufficient sleep and (very significantly) increased risk of dementia.

 

I did my best mixdowns on sleep depravation, everything in place, the track vibing in a blessed awesomeness, like touched by angel beings moving my faders... then I went to sleep and you all know what happens when you woke up and listen to the track again