[Snookie]

Hello Everyone,

As I said in my introductory post, I have suffered from bad insomnia in the past and am struggling rather right now following a bad bout of flu.

Hypnosis has worked well for me in the past. But there is something else which also helps me drift off to sleep and worked well last night.

I am very partial to the British actor David Tennant, who is well known in this country, after playing the role of the Doctor in the popular programme Doctor Who. He is an excellent actor who has done other things on tv, a few films and also on stage. But the good thing is that he also records audio books on cd to listen to at home. I suppose technically the stories are meant for children, but his style of reading is very entertaining. He has recorded the How to Train YOur Dragon series of books, on which the film How to Train Your Dragon was very loosely based, and these are great to listen to, being crack-up funny in places. In the past I have listened to these, half an hour at a time, and more often than not drift off to sleep before the half hour is up. I listened to a story again last night and managed to get a better night's sleep than I have since I started with this awful flu. Thank you David.

While not necessarily suggesting everyone starts buying David Tennant audio CDs. He's just my personal choice. But do you folks have a favourite actor/actress or famous person who might have recorded stuff onto audio cd or whatever medium, that you could listen to their dulcet tones in bed and they could lull you off to sleep? It might be worth looking into.

[jessallie]

If listening to audio cds helps you sleep you might want to pick up (I got mine in the library) Paul Mckenna's “I Can Make You Sleep” book and cd. It has a 20 minute sleep listening session (which I've never gotten through without falling off) and and easy to read book which one explanation is that you've gotten off track and messed up your sleeping schedule. The problem for me with it is even though it puts me out, I don't stay asleep long. This might not be the case for you.

[BobbyP]

I love these ideas of listening to someone's voice on CD's, to help you drift off to sleep. I'm going to give it a try, as soon as I figure out which CD to get. Thanks!!

[Snookie]

Jessalie, We have Paul mcKenna's Sleep Liike a Log cd. I didn't find that one very helpful for some reason.

Last night I carried on with my audio story, half drifted off part way through it and had some sleep the rest of the night. I am going to stick with it.

In UK anyway I think several famous people record stuff on audio cd. One that made me smile was just before Christmas I was in a book shop and in the children's section was a book with audio cd included, read by Bernard Cribbins, who several years ago did a lot of children's tv. The story was called Father Christmas (Santa Claus) needs a wee! Which when you think about it, having a drink of some sort at every home he calls at on Christmas Eve, must be a bit of a problem!

[jessallie]

I don't know if it's different, but mine is “I can make you sleep.” I found the book that comes with it extremely interesting, particularly the mind exercises in the book which I've never seen before. Every other sleep cd I've listened to includes progressive relaxation technique which I hate. For me there's nothing worse than tensing up and then relaxing. And when I'm really wound up, someone instructing me to relax just seems like more pressure. This one is different than anything I've tried. I'll never say it's a cure-all because although it puts me to sleep, I still keep waking up. Glad what you found works for you, but I still recommend this for anyone else, just for the book alone.

[Martin Reed]

Thanks for getting this discussion started, Snookie.

I wonder if trawling the local library's collection of audio books could also be an unlikely cure for insomnia?

I find the idea of 'spoken word' CDs particularly interesting since all we normally hear about for insomnia sufferers are 'white noise' tracks, or 'meditation type' tracks. Have you given either of them a try?

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[Snookie]

'Martin' wrote on '06:

Thanks for getting this discussion started, Snookie.

I wonder if trawling the local library's collection of audio books could also be an unlikely cure for insomnia?

I find the idea of 'spoken word' CDs particularly interesting since all we normally hear about for insomnia sufferers are 'white noise' tracks, or 'meditation type' tracks. Have you given either of them a try?

Martin you could have a point there. As I said at the start I listen to David Tennant's audio cds because I have lots of them. But just listening to any audio cd story could have a beneficial effect to someone having trouble sleeping, like telling a bedtime story to a child. I think as adults we tend to think that various activities should only be for the children. But my husband and I don't agree. We like listening to stories at bedtime.

On reflection I am coming to the conclusion that this recent bout of sleeping difficulty isn't the same as the bouts I had before. I'm sure it is just the horrible flu virus I had which completely upset my system. I had completely got out of the normal bedtime routine, as I slept apart from my husband because of my coughing. Since getting back to the normal routine, which includes listening to the audio cds, I am sleeping better. Not quite normally, but definately better. Oh and I am drinking warm milk before bed too.

To answer your question I haven't listened to a 'white noise' track or meditation one either.

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