Lying in bed, being angry.

I am terrible at coping.

Get migraine. Suffer.

Nighttime, like right now, I’ve given up on bed for now. I go enjoy the night a little and go for a drive. If I don’t drive maybe journal or work on art on the iPad for a bit. The key is for me to leave my bed, and when I go back to it it’s like being fresh into bed and I might catch the sleep wave.

I also consider past 3am struggles to be in the range of getting as high as I can in cannabis til I get eepy and go to sleep.

I take 3 times the healthy dose of excedrin to stop the inevitable migraine or at least make it smaller (cope) and i endeavor to not blink, as blinking makes not having slept much worse. Not sure i can explain why tho.

Using a sleep tracker really helped me. Some days are bad but I always know better sleep days will come. I have the data to prove it. That helps me drag through the bag days. Before that, the fear of sleeplessness was always worse than the sleeplessness itself.

An APAP has made a big difference in my sleep, but there's still days where I suck at being unconscious. Next day is caffeine, naps, and grace.

This actually works to reduce the perceived impact of missed sleep to a degree for me (you can’t just stop sleeping and do this instead, and it’s definitely not healthy or doing the same thing as sleep for your brain but it works for the occasional lost night or lost hours of sleep), but it’s annoying.

I lie down in a comfortable position, keep my eyes shut all night, and just daydream/meditate/think (not ruminating or worrying or anything like that, just calm thoughts- I play rain sounds and think about being a forest frog, dozing under a leaf and aware that my predators are all avoiding the rain and inactive. It works for me, but I suspect others have different calming scenarios they like to think through) for eight hours. It can be boring and difficult to make yourself do, but I’m more alert, don’t get a migraine, have a normal appetite, and am not struggling to keep from falling asleep the next day

"smtms" really hurts my brain lol

Turning off all screens an hour before bed is a good start.

Drink something warm. Crank one out. Count to 100.

Is there any light entering your room? A sleep mask is great for that. One less sense to distract you.

As in what am I doing during the night when I'm not sleeping? Listen to scary stories or chuckling at youtube conspiracy videos while I scroll through lemmy and the other app who shall not be named.

If you're asking what I'm doing the day after not sleeping, microdosing caffeine and light exercise to try to stay awake and sleep the following night. Until the vicious cycle starts again.