yes, i used to live two blocks from a fire station & after a little while, i slept through the sirens, cos i knew what it was.

it's hard/impossible to sleep though film crews shouting, their two-way radios, the generator that vibrates so much, it's almost unbearable. i'd rather sleep over my jesus freak g/f's apt, on the floor.

yes, melatonin works! but it's headaches waking me up. then i take a migraine pill -Imitrex, & get ill from the migraine, anyway. weed helps that nausea/vomiting.

i smoked weed to get sleep & my cat cuddled me, that always works/helps. thank goddess i didn't have to resort to alcohol. cos i have a headache now. maybe it's the computer?

i'm more alert, i'm going to the library to return dvd's, get some fresh air.

i've realized, in the past week, who my friends are. i always had a gut feeling, but the disapointment is sickening.

maybe some ex-so-called friends are mentally ill & sometimes saying things to me they don't really mean, that make me feel bad, but i'm through speculating. they are out of my life. what a relief!

thanks for the replies!

You know, I just thought of this, but this might help a lot: SimplyNoise - The Best Free White Noise Generator on the Internet.

It's just a white noise generator, and you can leave it on forever just making noise. Maybe that'll help drown out everything else? It's supposed to work, at least.

i went about 4 months with only 2-3 hours of sleep at a time. some of those days i was lucky if i got those blocks of sleep twice a day. newborn twins are no joke. i literally felt like i was being tortured slowly by sleep deprivation.

my migraine has been keeping me up all week too. it's the worst.

have you tried putting on a fan? i have a therapy machine that makes smells & sounds, the crickets one help me at night.

things that help me are making the room as dark as possible, burning some incense & focusing on healing, and some kind of repeative noise to drown out my neighbors & street sounds. maybe they can help you too.

sorry to hear about this.

when i have a migraine, all i want to do is sleep.

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