Hey, well right now my biggest problem is that I can't sleep at night, even when I start to get tired, if I'm alone my mind starts racing and I don't fall asleep until 6:30 am in the morning. I'm trying to find a job and my anarchic hours aren't helping at all.

I used to be able to go 2 days without sleep, now I usually fall asleep and once I am asleep, even if something wakes me up I fall right back asleep till I've had my 8 hours.

Can anyone give me any good tips on getting through a day with no sleep? A fairly stressful day, like the ones when I have a job interview or something.

Thanks!

I don't have any tips on how to make it through the day. I drink coffee, one cup in the am and them another in the afternoon before I got to work. I truly make it through the day because I have to.

I've had awful sleep troubles for years, they come and go. For the past 5 months I've been sleeping well, I started on a weight lose program. But I think that's not all that as me sleeping better. I just think I'm on a good sleep year.

Sorry I wasn't much help.... Can you take a short 20 min.power nap during the day?

Sounds like your bed/bedroom isn't conducive to sleeping. It's probably at the point where you know before you even climb into bed that you won't sleep, and it's become a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Where are you when you do fall asleep?

I don't get much sleep because I sit up half the night staring blankly at the telly, or surfing aimlessly on the net. The upside is at some point I get so tired I fall into bed. Can you try staying up and doing stupid things until you fall over? If your mind is racing, don't go to bed until it's too tired to race anymore.

I take Ritalin (g), so that gets me through the day. Maybe drink coffee or something, so your body doesn't start expecting those siestas during the day.

kitty (my friend calls me windowlicker...small world!)

things like using a computer may not be pro active for sleep because of the amount of thaught and stimulation they induce, on the other hand if you totaly cant sleep eventualy your body will crash and then it doesnt matter anyway. Other things that sometimes help are stuff like reading the news paper or a book for a while before you sleep and not being in a brigltly lit room and the like. Kinda just slowing everything down a little before you go crash for the night.