Please share your best remedies for insomnia

Given your thumbnail, I am guessing you are female. (Even if you aren't, this will help some women.)

If you are over 40, your progesterone levels are plummeting. This hormone allows females to both fall asleep and stay asleep.

Get your progesterone levels tested.

If it is low, the doctors will offer you a very high dose of sythetic oral replacement hormone. It is badly absorbed and causes cancers.

Go for the bioidentical cream options, and read everything written by endocrinologist Dr. Lee. (Dead now, but his company still sells his formula.)

wood betony
chamomile
vervain
lavender
skull cap
hops
hawthorn
lavender
wild lettuce
damiana
california poppy
linden
passion flower
lemon balm
oats straw
valerian
Kava kava
St. John Wort

0,5 mg Xanax + 500 mg Magnesium + fat joint = sleep 8 hrs straight

if you do consume tea and coffee then you have a sensitivity to caffeine and if you eat dark chocolate it also has a chemical called theobromine which is similar to caffeine.

go outside and run your ass around the block until you're exhausted. after you take a shower and lay down in bed, the tiredness in your legs will spread to the rest of your body and you'll go to sleep.

Ambien

Take a Benadryl, glass of wine and play word games on your phone while lying in bed. You'll be down in no time.

I think the original poster was asking about soothing natural relief that doesn't make them torpid.

I had insomnia for a while and I read somewhere to stop eating three hours before you go to sleep, so I tried it and haven’t had it since. Hope it helps with yours as well

getting drunk...

Kiwi Fruit.

Have a couple about an hour before you want to go to bed. Worked for me. After a couple of weeks I managed to resume a healthy sleeping pattern and did not need the kiwi.

If all else fails. Purple Indica . Tbh most indica strains do the trick.
Mazar-e-Sharif , and Puff Puff Pass Out are particularly effective , both have heavy sadative and narcotic properties. Lights out in no time.

Coast to coast am with Snoozy.

a good night's sleep...

Hot sweaty sex, tire yourself out

Raising my blood sugar makes me sleepy

Sigh....the first few answers...


Try to stop worrying and care about whatever is happening a LOT less and it will help.
Try running yourself ragged physically. (like a making a child run around outside till they NEED a nap)
Try taking a little L-Theanine (from green tea leaf, calms the sympathetic nervous system and increases brain function)
Try not eating before bed and taking a little honey in a tea spoon amount to encourage synapse firing as well as the feeling of tiredness. (You may dream a bit with the sugar)
Try eating a very clean diet that you cook yourself everyday.
Try thinking about interesting nonsense instead of whatever you are concerned about while you lay down.



Try to relax.

Do Not take human manufactured drugs unless NOTHING else works. Do not take melatonin unless you are planning to stop taking it very quickly.

That’s odd

Be aware that some of these natural remedies are diuretics and will cause you to possibly wake up and need to urinate urgently. Read about each one's side effects before trying.


Some of them effect your thyroid as well and should not be taken for long periods at a time or at all.

Some of them effect blood pressure and you should be cautious if your blood pressure is already fine.

Hawthorn affects heart rate and if your heart rate is fine then you should probably avoid it. So does Valerian root.

Alcohol

Lay on your back with arms and hands up, on chest or behind head. Lay there and don't do nothing for awhile until sleepy. Count sheep and tune-out the World. Then roll over a pass-out.

It's tough when your anxious or in withdrawl, or being harassed.

Try taking a couple asprin, helps.
Background noise helps too, but it also awakens you pre-maturely.

It made me sleepy just thinking about it.
YAWN.
I better get some shut-eye.

Read the following to yourself and then go to sleep.

Zzz...

I forgot a good one that only applies to certain people.

If you use a cpap (hate that name) machine for respiration due to sleep apnea.

I use this type of breathing apparatus...

[link to www.cpapoutlet.ca (secure)]

It fucks up when you turn your head sideways, the pressure pushes it off your nostril and it blows air in your face.

I had to use two pillows and put my head on the side to hang-over the edge so it wouldn't get pushed out of place. But that only lasts as long as your not asleep yet.

I found some subtle remedy that mitigates the basic useless, unhelpful gov. and all doctors (die die die) POS cpap machine.

I like it cool to sleep soundly so I got a insulating cover for the hose so it don't fill with condensation and pour water up My nose in my sleep.

BUT THE BEST CURE OF ALL was when I used an old headscarf like a bandanna, and tied it lightly over top of the head strapping that holds the nozzle on.

It stops it from moving out of place as much and also makes it total dark and peaceful, while I can leave a light on so that intruders, junkies and ghosts can't freak me out waking up in pitch blackness in the middle of the night.

Take 2 Benadryl it helps me tremendously!

I youtube court cases and listen to them.

Become the liquor...

:Lahey:

Call me
I will put you to sleep in five minutes or less.

Melatonin (spray under the tongue worked best for me).

Benadryl certainly works, but I'm groggy in the morning.

Wild lettuce extract.

Magnesium.

Put a podcast on that's at least semi-interesting while you're laying in bed. Sleep mask. Pretty soon I'm sleeping instead of listening.

I'm told valerian works well, but haven't tried it.

you need to be very physically active in the gym or swim or something that makes your body want to get deep sleep at night because it is tired out

Relax your tongue...concentrate on total relaxation of your tongue. Your tongue is connected to the are of your brain that controls speech and if you relax your tongue it will disengage the area of conversation in your brain and your mind will quiet.

As your mind quiets...you relax...as you relax...you fall asleep.

Take 40-60mg of a good full spectrum CBD from hemp about 30 minutes before bed along with some Valerian extract, you'll have to experiment a little with Valerian dosage, finish it off with a chamomile tea and lights out. I'd avoid taking melatonin for lengthy periods of time as it will mess up your brains ability to make it.

Everyone is different. Age, gender, ethnic BG, etc. What works on some may not work on another.