Cant sleep tonight... So in prep for Glasto what are your sleeping tips?

[laid back in the sun]

10-15mg of valium usually does the trick even when i had to share my tent with a mate who could easily win the national snoring championships!

[danicalifornia]

brothers cider + warm fire = done

[Jack Attack]

Liking this thread.

Must admit that I NEED sleep, and struggle to sleep during daylight hours.

[strudders]

I know, sorry I must hold the record for hijacking threads on this forum ... don't mean to.

Its a difficult one. Normally the country air, full belly, pissed, stoned etc.. should work a treat, but because there's always so much going on, and you kind of become nocturnal a day in, its really hard.

But some good tips coming this way. I can't do all the proper bedding stuff. Always have too much to carry as it is, and do quite like my sleeping bag and little camping sheet.

I think being clean makes a difference as well, if you're trying to cosy on down and your feet feel rank and you're a bit sweaty then it aint gonna happen! Give yourselves a quick wipe down to freshen up first as well.

Peace x

[niceandfriendly]

i find it difficult to get to sleep in general, anywhere. but i can honestly say that i slept better and easier at glastonbury last year than anywhere else and that includes my house!

after all the walking, dancing, smoking and drinking, come 4am you'll just crash out. then you'll feel fresh(ish) at 9am ready to do it all again.

don't worry about ear plugs or any of that nonsense, you won't hear anything. you'll be out as soon as your head hits the pillow/floor.

[timespeedsup]

WOO WOO Wooo woo!

This thread is about sleep not poop!

[strudders]

She started it but I was happy to carry it on......anyway we were not the only ones talking sh!te on this thread.

Indie, would a Reeves and Mortimer style fryaing-pan effort help?!?

One side-related tip too. Go to bed with enough on, else you may wake up in the cold of the night feeling.....cold.

Probably only applies to those of us who don't invest in decent sleeping bags mind.

[timespeedsup]

Or those of us who did not bring a sleeping bag to mid Lincolnshire in mid September.....

4 hoodies 3 t shirts and a coat.......

[strudders]

You were snoring soundly come the morning IIRR.

Think I had 5 blankets round me at the campfire the last night. Proper freezing I was, but that must have been an internal thing.

[mandypants]

I also bring along Double Strength Canesten cream for my knackers and crotch area cos it can get a bit crotch rotty after a day or two... Canesten knocks it on the head instantly...

[strudders]

So much information, way too much of the stuff.....

[mandypants]

eerrrr please dont think....

Oh, how do I

errr

Its a bloke thing!!!!!!

running around for 18 hours like a loon with jeans and boxers, the old undercarriage does not get out to waft in the summer breeze as much as it would normally!

[strudders]

Tip: Cotton trousers/shorts or a kilt

[mandypants]

Jeans are cotton!

KILT! now there's an idea!

Do you think there is a Strudders tartan out there?

[timespeedsup]

Do you think there is a Strudders tartan out there?

Edited April 2, 2010 by timespeedsup

[llcoolphil]

It would appear all the excitement of today has left me bereft of the clutches of Morpheus...

However at Glasto I have a set of BA first class eye cover things

Some Health and Safety, Ramp approved ear plugs

I also take my pillow from home and my duvet...

This may sound extravagant but since I have been doing this, a good night (not strictly night, more morning) sleep is to be had...

What are your choices for that elusive four hour kip and mind recharge?

Oh and a pee bottle is a must.

However this year I am doing something I hope nobody else will be doing and that's coming pre plumbed with a catheter... yes drinking competitions where "first to the loo" are the rules are mine for the winning..Mooohahaha

Edited April 2, 2010 by llcoolphil

[indieheart]

Indie, would a Reeves and Mortimer style fryaing-pan effort help?!?

[Jack Attack]

don't worry about ear plugs or any of that nonsense, you won't hear anything. you'll be out as soon as your head hits the pillow/floor.

[disasterplan]

My optimal sleeping pattern tends to be 5-10am every day... but all that goes out the window when I have my obligatory all-nighter at some stage during the fest - usually the Saturday, so I can sit and chill on Sunday, catch a few bands but miss all the novelty cack they wheel out for the locals.

[mr_bizarre]

Sleep! What's wrong with you people! Hehehe

I always find a decent airbed some ear plugs and some valium to be just the ticket.

Alternatively though, 750mls of good sipping tequila is enough to close the lids on even the most resiliant of persons

[niceandfriendly]

Can you guarantee that?

[strudders]

I'm thinking of starting a separate thread 'If Strudders gets to sleep any recommendations about how everyone else might get some sleep'. Quiet you aint!

[NeilVJ]

For me glasto it's not the getting to sleep it the staying asleep

The huge amount of booze normally makes it quite easy to doze off but once the sun rises and the noise starts at about 8ish I wake right up, far far too early

[timespeedsup]

I think it would. Are you offering to whack me round the head with a frying pan then?