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Mar 2, 2021
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Well gentlemen, I guess we all need to stop drinking alcohol and caffeine. Stop smoking our pipes and eat egg whites. Run every morning and lift weights in the evening. Turn off our electronics and beg our wives for some rubbings and we’ll all get a good nights sleep! ?
Wouldn’t hurt…??
 
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Actually, while slow and somnambulant, Moby Dick is well told, and worth a read or a re-read.
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hauntedmyst

Lifer
Feb 1, 2010
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As much as I joke about my wife, she's a pretty wonderful woman. In the last year she has started snoring like a freight train. She's scheduling a sleep study and I think she needs a CPAP. It's usually a fat person issue but she's only 125lbs. I've been dealing with insomnia to for the last 4 weeks. Him, not so much.

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Actually, while slow and somnambulant, Moby Dick is well told, and worth a read or a re-read.

I don't know. I know it's considered the first "Great American Novel" but read a novel set on the sea (I have no interest in the sea) in the mid 1800's about a bitter, sociopath hunting down a whale because he defended himself and won the first round (and the final round as I understand it)? Can't say it draws much interest. If the novel ended with the whale selling scrimshaw drawings made from Ahab's bones "The little ones are $25, the medium size are $75 and the femurs are $200. The head isn't for sale, that's a personal piece", now that might have turned it around and made it a must read!
 
All kidding aside…. I’ve always had insomnia, forever…. I went to sleep therapy, no problems with my oxygen, just can’t get to sleep. I’ve tried all of their pills, running, biking, total exertion…. Once, I found out that I could smoke a really strong blend, Nightcap was my first…. I could just take a nip of chocolate to subdue the spins and just slip off to sleep, and wake refreshed.
Now, I always keep a few really strong blends to put me to sleep; Cotton Boll Twist, some really strong lakelands, or Burley Flake #2.

I haven’t had to take a sleeping pill since I started doing this.
 

SoddenJack

Can't Leave
Apr 19, 2020
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West Texas
I’ve had sleep issues for years. Relatively light sleeper, taking to myself in my head, always getting up multiple times a night. Luckily I’m never tired in the morning and I always wake up on time. It’s been that way since I was about 15. I spoke with a doctor about it once, but he told me it’s just my sleep schedule if it’s been that way for that long.

Melatonin gummies are good to put me out, but I often feel groggy in the mornings. I’ve recently started taking ZMA (zinc, magnesium, and B6 supplement) before bed. It’s supposed to help improve sleep. Just gives me really weird dreams.
 

scloyd

Lifer
May 23, 2018
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I purchased these Harney & Sons Hemp Division SLEEP tea bags with CBD.
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I sipped a cup every night for a week before going to bed. Did nothing for me...now they sit in the cabinet.
 
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irishearl

Lifer
Aug 2, 2016
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Kansas
I used to sleep like a rock anyplace and anytime. Now that I am tired and we have a cat that wants out at all hours that has kind of changed.
We have cats. The chief advantage of cats over dogs is the non-necessity of having to take them outside for anything in particular. So, what's up with that?:confused:.
 
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