can you sleep after a gig?

[zachoff]

I'm usually up until midnight or 1 after practice. I go home, crack a beer or two, transfer recordings from the Tascam to my computer, edit out all the junk, eq it a bit, and send out mp3s to everyone.

Gigs are different though... Usually home around 2 and can crash out pretty easily.

 

[NateS]

i, too, was awake until 6 this morning - not even a practice or gig! Just couldn't sleep. Was running through DIY pedal ideas in my head. Figured i'd just get up, see what i wanted to figure out, then go back to sleep, i can be done in 5 minutes or ponder over dimensions for an hour. Still didn't help. Bleh.

 

[Rocks]

i, too, was awake until 6 this morning - not even a practice or gig! Just couldn't sleep. Was running through DIY pedal ideas in my head. Figured i'd just get up, see what i wanted to figure out, then go back to sleep, i can be done in 5 minutes or ponder over dimensions for an hour. Still didn't help. Bleh.

maybe we need to start the TB insomnia club, lol I'm #1, wanna be #2?

 

[Zooberwerx]

....nothing worse than waking up a sleeping woman that has to get up early, may as well poke a bear with a stick a few times, get about the same results....

Truly profound. You youngsters out there...take note.

For me, I have a stash of leftover Vicodin and Dilaudid from my last round of OP surgery(ies).

Riis

 

[SanDiegoHarry]

Yes. Like a baby.

 

[Rocks]

Truly profound. You youngsters out there...take note.

For me, I have a stash of leftover Vicodin and Dilaudid from my last round of OP surgery(ies).

Riis

I couldn't even imagine trying to sleep after pain pills, they act like speed in me and wire me out big time. I have a surgery coming up and it scare me to death knowing what I'll go through on the pain meds after.

 

[Miccisicks]

ya dude, i never sleep after either, just go with it..that's rock n roll!

 

[Zooberwerx]

I couldn't even imagine trying to sleep after pain pills, they act like speed in me and wire me out big time. I have a surgery coming up and it scare me to death knowing what I'll go through on the pain meds after.

Just wash 'em down with a Miller longneck...it will help take the edge off things.

FWIW, slip the anesthesiologist a fiver and ask for "extra Versed" before the procedure.

Riis

 

[thesilence]

Truly profound. You youngsters out there...take note.

For me, I have a stash of leftover Vicodin and Dilaudid from my last round of OP surgery(ies).

Riis

Yeah they work wonders but I don't really recommend this vicodin is very addictive and I know from experience after several knee surgeries and getting several weeks worth of vicodin after each one I got to where I had to have my pills several times a day (think House) finally going through rehab the withdrawals are a living hell

 

[thesilence]

Interesting, can this get extreme enough to last for a couple days like in my case?

I'm not sure I'd usually crash all day on Saturday. If you're going several days without sleep go see a sleep doc they'll be able to help you alot more than us bass players. (I apologize if you have gone to a doc I didnt read through the entire post)

 

[ExaltBass]

Takes me about an hour to wind down after a club gig... White Castle burgers on the way home and some MELLOW music on phones settle me down.

What's practice

 

[Rocks]

Just wash 'em down with a Miller longneck...it will help take the edge off things.

FWIW, slip the anesthesiologist a fiver and ask for "extra Versed" before the procedure.
Riis

Yeah, the versed didn't bother me last time, didn't knock me out for the procedure I was still wide awake and watching them snake through my inside on the screenm, the whole time I was asking "whats that?" and other questions to the point that I'm sure they wished it had worked better on me. They said I would basically be like I was sleeping and not know what was going on around me, but they were wrong, I knew everything and asked about it as they were doing it.

Yeah they work wonders but I don't really recommend this vicodin is very addictive and I know from experience after several knee surgeries and getting several weeks worth of vicodin after each one I got to where I had to have my pills several times a day (think House) finally going through rehab the withdrawals are a living hell

Dude, I know that very sheety feeling, this isn't my first surgery coming up. The last few were basically back to back, so I was on percodan's for a few months. I have no idea why they don't taper you off rather than cut you off cold. Then again, even if they had tapered me I'm not sure I would have been able to handle the smaller doses at that point - I may have wanted to take even more than before, it was that bad. Nothing took the edge off, not valium or the few similar things they tried to help me sleep. My next surgery is about a month off yet and I'm already planing on stopping the pain meds within 3 days of surgery. I'm just going to force myself to man-up and deal with the pain as its better than dealing with getting off the meds.

 

[EagleMoon]

I don't think that drinking OR drugs are good to be using. Both are potentially addicting. Personally I get wired up for a couple of hours but then I'm exhausted and usually sleep like the dead.

 

[eddievanbassman]

Smoke a doob...

 

[Tom Howland]

It takes me about two hours to unwind after a gig.

If it a bad gig, I'm sleeping on stage.

 

[bassophil]

I don't think that drinking OR drugs are good to be using. Both are potentially addicting. (...)

Especially when used for the purpose to fall asleep!


I just thought of another natural way to trick your body/mind:
Go out a lot as long as the sun is shining. The Melatonin/Serotonin system in our body is influenced by daylight/darkness. Therefor people who spend a lot of the daytime inside buildings have a higher potential to suffer from sleepless nights.
Ideally the daytime should be combined with, at least a little, physical exercise. F.e. going for a half an hour walk can actually do a lot here for former couch potatoes. This will produce Endorphin and that can also help "to reset" your biological clock.
I'm pretty sure this alone won't help you with your (pretty extreme) problem, but it sure will substitute all efforts towards a regular day/night rhythm.

 

[countrybass007]

ExaltBass has it figured out, I do several double Whitecastle sliders and listen to some mellow Dead. Works every time.

 

[noam]

You might try this: don't turn on any lights when you get home -- use a flashlight to get around and do what you need to do. Bright lights are a major stimulant, and totally unnatural in the middle of night. Also, I'd recommend completely cutting out caffeine, even things like decaf and chocolate, even early in the day, and you may find that you sleep the sleep of the just.

 

[ggunn]

Here's a thing. If I wake up in the middle of the night it is frequently hard for me to get back to sleep. I have found that if I speak during this time it is more likely that I will have trouble.