Insomnia : How to fight it

I had an exam last week and I couldn't sleep or study, it was awful ;-;

Being tired causes the electric impulses in the brain to fire slower as its still trying to shut down and process you can can only be a productive insomniac if your brain is high functioning

I have exams these days, I sleep for at least 4 hours a day, but during my English Language exam, I failed to go to sleep due to nervousness. So, utilizing that failure to sleep, I picked up a book, but still I didn't feel like, so played some Fallout. Well, why do something when you don't feel like? You'll be more productive when you think you are in mood of doing that stuff.

i skipped class today because I couldn't sleep last night at all :| luckily it's the start of the academic year in NZ, so not a big deal

ill refrain from giving you my solution since its not very family friendly.(no its not fap fap fap...though similar)

of course theres other things you can do such as meditating(partially works for me), its really good if you manage to practice it, but since you need something asap i guess it wont work as well for you unless you manage to do it intuitively(you might as well look up online mantras to sleep, no kidding, they work)

another thing that lulled me into sleep in some of those insomniac nights was drinking hot milk & coffee, this of course is really weird but it has worked sometimes for me, no idea why, because...coffee...and sleep...well, they typically dont mix well(i dont recomend this since it might backfire and keep you from ever sleeping tonight)

other than that just go to bed and close your eyes in hopes for sleep to come.

and GL! god knows you need a good night sleep

Deciding not to sleep or being distracted from sleep is not the same as insomnia.

I had insomnia for a few months during my first year of college and it was terrible. It completely changed my outlook on sleep. I could almost never sleep, and when I could it was brief and at random times. I couldn't concentrate on anything and I was having minor hallucinations from the lack of sleep.

I would fall asleep for short intervals at involuntary times. Sometimes it was in class, one time it was on a table in the middle of the food court of the busiest, noisiest building on campus.

One time I slept through a whole morning, standing up in the middle of my room. I had set an alarm so I wouldn't miss my afternoon class. My alarm clock started playing a song that I liked when it went off, so I listened through the whole song, thinking that I was lying down, before opening my eyes and falling over.

One time I fell asleep while trying to study after no sleep for almost four days, and my alarm went off to let me know that I had to get ready to go take the test I had just failed to study for. I was conscious just long enough to stand up before I blacked out. I became conscious again and I was standing in front of my alarm clock. I turned it off and blacked out again. Then I was on the other side of my room taking my clothes off. Out again. Grabbing my towel. Out again. Getting into the shower (which was down the hall from my room, I didn't remember going there). Out again. Then I was hit by a blast of freezing cold water and slammed my body against the wall. I didn't black out again, but that was a very unpleasant awakening.

I ended up getting some over-the-counter sleep aids, which helped a bit. It was hard to sleep even with them and they gave me terrible hangovers though. Luckily the insomnia went away after a few months, I'm still not sure what caused it.

I'm basically getting Bs and Cs right now in community college when I could easily be getting all As if I cared or did more than the bare minimum. I'm not really trying for a degree, I'm just going because it's something I fell I should be doing. I've never cared about my schoolwork and have always gotten mostly Bs, some As, and a couple Cs. I guess it's just hard to start trying when you never have before and you don't really care. I've basically been staying up until about 5 AM watching Twin Peaks the past couple days, after I mostly got my sleep habits under control. Luckily I can go to school forr a day even if I haven't slept and then just crash when I get home.

I take a melatonin.

Why are you learning C++ when you are facing a Haskell test and never heard of it? Better learn the basics of functional programming languages. Haskell is pretty different to the procedural-programming or object-oriented languages you are probably used to. Anyways good luck for your test.

edit: To add to the topic I'm being insomniac right now - it's 4am here. -.-

I have a way. Embrace it. For instance, I can't sleep at night at all. So I've found a job which I can do at night. So I always work night-shift. I've just came back from work, I can watch some TV shows, go to sleep, and when I wake up I can work on my youtube channel content.

Edit: And if you wonder what I do: I work at a dispatch in a government office. Recently there's not much to do, so I slack all night long and still get paid. ;)

Avoidance of sleep, increased stress levels, conflicting emotions, and a lack of motivation/drive/momentum. That doesn't describe insomnia. It describes avoidance, and I am a veteran in that department. I would guess that you are avoiding something but are unable to come to grips with your reluctance and the basis for it. The human mind is a tricky thing, able to hide information from itself because it's not comfortable thinking about it.

If you sense that I'm on the right track with my guess, I can point you toward dealing with it. If not, then please disregard the above.