PCS - Insomnia and sleep experimentation success?
 

Hi,

I am curious to hear if anyone came across a successful routine to help them sleep. I had been doing the standard of avoiding all stimulants before bed, no sugar, caffeine and etc.. to no success.

Was put back on Elavil and still could not sleep.

So recently I have been doing some different routines at home to make up a sleep plan. I came across one that works for me and I was curious if anyone else tried this and their thoughts?

I came across some internet info about blocking the blue light spectrum to allow your body to produce melatonin. I had read many positive experiences from people so decided to get some glasses that filtered that out and put them on 2 hours before bed each night. With a busy family we have a lot of lights and electronics on in the evening.

At bed time I have all the lights off and put on my MP3 player on with binaural beats playing, specifically in the Delta wave for 30 minutes. I have been sleeping like a baby since and feel well rested. It's still early to state success (few days) as it could be a placebo type effect, however after months of insomnia I am optimistic.

Anyone experiment with this? Any thoughts if listening to Binaural beats might be difficult on the injured brain? From what I understand you basically get sound at different frequencies; 310 hz in left and 314 hz in right for example making your brain interpret a 4hz signal for deep sleep in the delta wave.

I have not tried the binaural sound but I do have a few recording of singing that will help me fall asleep. Sometimes, I need a bit out routine visual stimulation to focus on so my visual processing sort of fades to black. If I close my eyes but they are still jumping around, it will take a long time to get to sleep.

As I have mentioned before, I need to reduce all tactile stimulation. Soft pajamas, comfortable mattress and pillow, I even do best with something soft touching my right cheek.

We each need to do as you did and experiment with different techniques. Glad to hear you found one that works.

I've got two kids that make sure I'm pooped out by the end of the day. If you don't have kids, you can try finding activities that don't completely overstimulate you...but still make you fatigue. Just try doing more during the day and staying up later at night.

Sleep
 

No napping if possible, some exercise within reason, a good diet, up early, melotonin, no stimulants, it helps if you know how to meditate.