Insomnia.

I have made a commitment to myself to get back onto a normal sleep schedule (more than 5.5 hrs nightly) but now that the moment has come to do this, it's not happening. As usual, it's 10pm and I am AWAKE.

Normally, 10pm would be a perfectly wonderful time to be awake, but I have to get up at 6.

- late hockey game last night
- worked today on short sleep
- so tired this evening i could have gone to bed at 8:30
- made myself eat, do dishes, take a shower
- now it's 2:30 and i can't fall asleep
- wtf

-watchin breaking bad
-finishing these beers
-work in 6ish hours

Up and at em, slept well. If only I could do this every night, then I would be well rested (but also possibly extremely bored).

2 hours Monday night. One hour Tuesday. A nap of 3 hours Wednesday 11am.1 hour sleep Wednesday night,thus far.have work in 2 and a quarter hours. Guuuh.

I can't believe that as little as a week ago, I said that I slept well. Was I lying?! I wish I could sleep well every night.
Jim in Glasgow, that sounds miserable. I'm sorry. What have you tried to help with the sleeping?

Absolutely nothing. In my experience this never lasts more than 5 days for me.just being a moany dufus really.if it happened regularly I would be doped out my eyeballs.

yeah its nice that i always manage to sneak a few nights sometimes even weeks of solid sleep in cuz it means not dying but its also really frustrating that i have almost no control over it and the specter is always looming

after months of fitful and minimal sleep and feeling/looking extremely bleary, i have decided that this is the week things will change. last night i slept from 10:30pm until 8:30am today -- although my face looked like it had been smashed into an unnatural shape for an hour after i got up, i feel FANTASTIC. like, electrically alive. sleep is so wonderful!

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how many hours are you getting on average per night?

All over the map. I had a bout where I'd go to bed early and sleep for 11 or 12 hours, and still not want to get out of bed. But lately I'm waking up in the very early morning after 4 or 5 hours and can't fall back asleep.

do you have trouble falling asleep or just wake up too soon?

LL, are you doing better? Did the other night of sleepful bliss really herald a sea change??

my sleep was sort of back on track but now i've started talking and making awful noises in my sleep. gf says i "sound like a woman in pain". (!!) so now i get elbowed awake every night and then don't get back to sleep afterward.

pretty deadly.

xxxpost yeah pretty often my sleep is like that, i get to sleep fine but my body finds reasons to wake me at 3:00am and i'm up until my alarm goes off at 6. functioning on those 4 hours is so much better when you get them the second half of the night.

it's my biggest problem tbh

That was my big problem too. Well, now I just don't get tired, so I sleep from 1:30-6 or so, which is causing cumulative damage to my ability to function and the whites of my poor eyes.

On Saturday I slept a ton and I just want like 7-7.5 hrs a night rather than 4-5.

I used to laugh in my sleep a lot, but not anymore :(

In other words Laurel, no. But I am working on it. Tomorrow I can try to sleep in a little, til 7:30 maybe?

going to bed and getting to sleep, i struggle with. Too many distractions.

This has been bad for me the last few weeks. It started with a heat wave - I really have trouble sleeping if I can't be swaddled in a blanket or two. My body gets really achey, too.

The weather has cooled but makes no difference: it takes me a couple hours to fall asleep, I have disturbing dreams, I wake up constantly, no position is comfortable. Then the alarm goes off and I think about how I'd rather be dead than have to get up.

i have been spent years lobbying for a longer terrestrial day -- wouldn't it be great if you could stay up, say, 19 hours and sleep for 8 but still be on schedule? -- but to no avail.

i got four hours last night. i am the 99% bleary

Yeah I mean on one hand, why force it? If my brain wants to be up let it be up. On the other hand, soooo bleary :(

>> All over the map. I had a bout where I'd go to bed early and sleep for 11 or 12 hours, and still not want to get out of bed. But lately I'm waking up in the very early morning after 4 or 5 hours and can't fall back asleep.

> do you have trouble falling asleep or just wake up too soon?

Until recently I just had trouble falling asleep - since I was a child it's always taken 1-2 hours, and sometimes longer, but once I was asleep I'd get a good 7 or 8 hours in. The waking up early thing started only recently.

For some reason I've been falling asleep on the couch several times in the last few weeks, maybe just want to try a different place or feel than the bedroom. Sometimes I'll sleep for a few hours on the sofa, then move to the bed for a change.

I too can't sleep well unless it's cool.

8 hrs last night, no headache, no eye ache, feelin like $1 million
if i get one more good night, that means i can stay up late on wednesday night, right?

rightrightright?

So so so so so glad! Love to hear it. Don't know how you insomniacs can function with so little when I go to pieces on 5 hrs + mild hangover. You guys are some tough cookies.

NO

xpost

:( why not

because you're always going to deal with insomnia until you get into a healthier sleep routine!

i am a petulant child and i don't want to have a sleep routine! being an adult is so boring.
(i know you're right though)

i still feel like one 6 hour night isn't going to be the end of the world if every other night is a 7-8 hour night
i'm not talking about staying up ALL NIGHT or anything

can you put a price on feeling like $1 million?

:-/

that will cost me 7-8 hours of life, i'm afraid

> Don't know how you insomniacs can function with so little when I go to pieces on 5 hrs + mild hangover

I can't either, even without a hangover. That's the problem......

Hi-5 la lech! I got about 7 good hrs, too!

J told me stories and petted me and rubbed lavender sleep balm into my forehead, for about an hour after we got in bed. It helped!

how's it workin out for y'all

i'm getting a steady +/-7 hrs nightly, myself.

my night's sleep last night was from, uh, 2pm till 6pm. \o/.

4 hours on a good night these last few weeks, unless I get drunk in which case I pass out for 10 hours but wake up feeling tired.

i'd feel better about being awake if it were snowing

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Went to sleep at 01:30, woke up at 05:15, zombie mode, meeting with boss in half an hour. Damn my doctor and her anti-Ambien stance! Amytrip does fuck all.

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oh no!
ambien is no longer my friend, but it did help me get over the nerves insomnia brought.

I'm exhausted. I'm bored. I've been lying in bed for an hour, while some part of my brain I refuse to identify with goes mnep mnep mnep deconstructing the reasons for the failure of every relationship I ever was in, right down to the three-night stands. STFU, brane. SLEEP TIME.

mnep mnep mnep

got to sleep around 8 this morning. in honor of rev. mlk jr. i got to work from home today, which involved me putting my laptop and phone next to my bed on their highest volume and sleeping until 2.

no way a beeping laptop would have awakened me, so it's just as well that nothing happened.

how do i shot ambien

have you tried otc sleep aids? try that first.

i'll use otc sleep aids or, more often, nyquil if i *know* i'm going to have a problem. also melatonin more regularly.

but sometimes when it gets to be 3am and things don't look promising, that stuff (as well as ambien, most likely) will make my next day at least as zombie-ific as if i'd just stayed awake. although at least i wouldn't lay there thinking about how much the day is going to suck, i guess.

ime ambien is more of a failsafe -- you take it at 9pm when you have a big day ahead of you tomorrow and you KNOW you might have trouble sleeping, so you need a little extra push
you can't take it at 3am
well, you can, but it's def not advisable

I'm avoiding going to bed. I've been consistently avoiding trying to sleep for the past 2 months, and it has to stop but I don't know HOW to stop aragghghghahahahhh. I'm so fucking TIRED but the whole idea of going to bed is anathema.