Vitamins can't hurt, I would stay clear of the gingko I think it is a stimulant. Also avoid exercise and food at least 2 hours before you go to bed. When you do go to bed do not have any distractions like TV, computer or even music on or around you. You want complete sensory deprivation. This works well for me, usually asleep in 5 min. Alternativly if you are sure this would not work for you try some Nyquil, just be sure you have a couple of alarm clocks set.

To get to sleep you can try melatonin, theanine, and/or phenibut. They are all OTC and should be fairly inexpensive. If you can get some zolpidem (aka Ambien), it's great stuff. No matter how awake I am within a half hour if I try to fall asleep I will. If you fight it and stay awake things can get a bit weird and trippy, and if someone wakes you up within the first few hours you probably won't remember it very well. It works better than anything else I've ever tried, as long as you have time for at least 6 hours of sleep you wake up feeling great.
The best choice would be to take melatonin and theanine about an hour before you wanted to sleep every night for awhile and always go to sleep around the same time. A few weeks of that and you should be able to develop a normal sleep pattern. You can also take theanine during the day combined with caffeine to smooth it out.

As far as being sharp once you are up goes, there are a lot of choices out there. Maca (it might make you really horny though), Rhodiola, ALCAR, any of the various racetams (piracetam, oxiracetam, aniracetam, etc.), theobromine (main stim in chocolate), Bacopa, Ashwaghanda, tyrosine, Mucuna, etc. (combining any of the above should be safe and more effective than taking them on their own, in theory taking any of them regularly shouldn't be dangerous either). Each brain being unique not all of the above will work, some may even have the opposite effect. Rhodiola and a racetam are probably the safest bet as far as efficacy goes. Piracetam is supposed to take awhile to build up effects in most people but the other ones should work immediately. I personally felt piracetam on the first dose, it wasn't anything major though (kind of like a low dose of caffeine), the most noticeable thing was that while I took it my ability to recall numbers was hugely improved. Kind of cool but pretty much useless for me.

Gingko apparently works at improving memory function, if its good quality and you take it regularly, if I remember right it's supposed to be more effective the older you get. There's other stuff out there that works similarly but more effectively. It's not really a stimulate per se but it can't hurt to take it if you have some laying around. Odds are you won't notice much from it though.

Ah...it begins. I wasn't going to say anything either, but still...your glutes are a'burning?

The only way to get a sore butt on a scooter, would be to ride around on potholes and speedbumps, I wager.

It was a combination of 3 things:
Sleeping on a shitty couch
falling on my ass while riding my friend's longboard

and riding over bigass potholes on my MOPED




I have always had really bad insomnia. I can't sleep unless there's dead silence, or if I'm totally wiped out. And I can be 'tired' and try to go to sleep and it'll take me 45mins to 2 hours to fall asleep. I'm gonna head to the store in a bit and see what they've got. As far as being awake at work goes, I hope a good night's sleep will be the only necessary cure. My contingency is a friend whom I can scam Concerta out of (I actually do have ADD (probably) so it all works out)

I know, I really want to get an adderall script. Amphetamine is such a better buzz than methylphenidate. Only problem is I have no fucking clue how to go do it, I haven't been to the doctors in so long, I don't have health insurance. I think I kinda belong to some clinic but I don't know if I can just walk in and get a prescription for an indefinite period of time

I wish I could help you, but as I have terrible insomnia, I'm afraid I'd be no help.

And crawdad has a gift. He was being generous when he said that he's usually asleep in 5 minutes. It is actually less than that.

Try having insomnia when the person in bed with you is sound asleep. Very freaking irritating.