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I'm fairly sure someone made a thread about this awhile back but I'm not sure, so why not make my own?

Sleep. So. I like sleep. Probably more than the average thirteen year old. But lately, much to my dismay, I've been having an incredibly hard time falling asleep. It's not that I'm not tired, but every time I close my eyes I start thinking about things like crazy--The CB, Magician and Rabbit, Projects, Camp NaNo, Story Ideas.... And so I am in bed, with my eyes closed, but I can't fall asleep for hours. As soon as I'm about to fall asleep, I think of something I want to do, and my mind wants me to walk over and start working on it right away. Meanwhile, my body is exhausted. I just want to sleep.

Does anyone have any suggestions of something I could do? Has this happened to anyone else before? 

submitted by Theo W.
(July 7, 2014 - 7:46 pm)

back to the Down to Earth

My mom gave me an MP3 player for pumping music into a little speaker. I've tried a bit of Doctor Who soundtrack and Foxes songs instead a little bit. I'll download more songs sometime and try listening to nothing else for a night and report the results.

As it is I sleep OK some nights, horribly on others.

More l8r 

submitted by Joe the Stickfiddler, age 15, Music Vortex
(July 11, 2014 - 5:17 pm)

I have a horrible time falling asleep. Even if my body is exhausted and needs rest, my mind is active. Mostly it's just stories and ideas and stuff but late-nights seem to be a favorite time for my mind to focus on bad things and for me to have panic/anxiety attacks. Fortunately, I can cry silently and I've learned how to keep the attacks to just crying and shaking. Anyway.

I don't really have advice. I just wait out and sometime my exhausted mind with fade off and finally fall asleep. I'll usually lie in bed for like two hours, though. It's terrible and I know I don't get enough sleep but *shrugs*.  I do hope you find a way to battle it.

submitted by Corina
(July 11, 2014 - 10:10 pm)

I'd personally see a doctor about this, but if not, I suggest going to bed much earlier so that even if you lie in bed for two hours, you'll fall asleep at a right time.

Good luck!

submitted by Nora the Singer
(July 15, 2014 - 10:12 am)
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