How Long Does It Take You to Fall Asleep?

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I am not one to have trouble falling asleep, but lately I've been tossing and turning. A few relaxation exercises generally help, but I find myself waiting up to 20 minutes or so to actually drift off to the land of nod. On your average night . . .

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I suffer with ill health (bad abdominal pain) and when I do go to bed it takes longer than an hour to get to sleep, I can only manage day naps, but I have strange hallucinations before and after napping. Worse thing; my pains are getting worse, and in a week I'll be commuting to uni, so I'm screwed, no one else on my course has anything to worry about.
LeiraElle LeiraElle
It used to take me FOREVER (over an hour) to fall asleep. But after moving apartments last year, I vowed to use my bed only for sleep. Its tempting to do work or drag my laptop in to watch movies, but making my bed a single-purpose area made falling asleep much easier (now staying asleep is the problem...)
katiekat95 katiekat95
an hour or more :(
katiekat95 katiekat95
an hour or more :(
juicebox07 juicebox07
I'm not one of those people who says "I'm going to sleep now." At night, I enjoy laying in bed watching movies. I will do this until I feel myself drifting off. Sometimes I catch myself, turn the TV off, and instantly fall asleep after that. Other times, I fall asleep with the TV on.
Spectra Spectra
Fifteen to twenty minutes, usually. Unless I go to bed before my husband--he always wakes me up when he comes to bed.
amber512 amber512
Too long!
amber512 amber512
Too long!
imLissy imLissy
on a normal night, I'd say 20 minutes sounds about right. But maybe like one or two nights a week, it'll take me hours. Either because I'm itchy, anxious, or just plain not tired.
guavajelly guavajelly
It all depends. Most nights under 10 minutes (i think). Once in a while like once every 6 months or even longer its like half an hour or longer, but thats usually when I nap in the day or have stimulants too close to bedtimehttp://fullbodytransformation.wordpress.com/
guavajelly guavajelly
It all depends. Most nights under 10 minutes (i think). Once in a while like once every 6 months or even longer its like half an hour or longer, but thats usually when I nap in the day or have stimulants too close to bedtime http://fullbodytransformation.wordpress.com/
Lovely_1 Lovely_1
It really all depends. If I did yoga that day or got up early that day usually MAX 20 minutes. But like last night, it took me almost 2 hours !
ticamorena ticamorena
ever since i started working out in the mornings every day and doing yoga in the afternoons/evenings, the moment my head hits the pillow i'm out! and i love it because i used to struggle to sleep before
SarahPW SarahPW
Now with a baby, I fall asleep a lot faster- I never know how much sleep I am going to get :)
le romantique le romantique
It depends on when I go to bed and how my day was, what tomorrow brings, etc.- but generally 10 mins. On the rare occasion, it will take 20.
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