Insomnia: I'd give you everything I've got for a little peace of mind

[JLBats]

This thread is really more about screwed up sleeping patterns, but the title covers it all.

Basically, for the past while, all my classes have been at 1 in the afternoon, and slowly I started sleeping in far, far too late. It's gotten progressively worse, and now I stay up 'til 5 in the morning and sleep until 2-3 in the afternoon. It's started to depress me to wake up only to see the sun go down a few hours later.

Anyway, post here with your tales of sleeping problems and related shenanigans.

 

[The Battousai]

This past semester I usually went to bed between 12:30 and 1:00 am, because I take about 30 minutes to actually fall asleep (a damn nightmare when I try to go to bed early - I practically stare at the ceiling for hours at when that happens...), and based that off average sleep cycles (each one being 90 minutes) in order to get up at the right time to have enough space between getting up and going to class to read the comics, shower, and get my school things together; on certain days, I packed something to eat (that's right - no breakfast time for me ). It hasn't been all that bad, because I'd get a good 6 hours of sleep for the most part.

However, when I don't have to get up early I tend to sleep in to at least 11, so I end up staying up until 2:00 am or later.

Whenever I play D&D with friends of mine, we start after 8:00 or 9:00 pm and it will usually last until at least 2:00 am, and at times will go on well after dawn has broken across the horizon; so you can imagine the kind of sleep pattern that would cause...

 

[knowsbleed]

I've always been a nocturnal person... I've learned to embrace it. It's so much more peaceful during the darker hours, I can think, I can do whatever I want to do without the sun revealing all of life's flaws. I feel more alive at night, even if I'm by myself. I take walks at night sometimes... I've solved many of my problems on those midnight-3am strolls. I love it at night...

... so I guess whatever case of insomnia that I have, I embrace. Except for workdays when I sleep around 3am and have to get up at 5:30am. Maybe that's why I hate the daytime so much, but I truly know that it is deeper than just lack of sleep.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

I've been a nocturnal person for about 2 years now. And I agree with Knowsbleed, it's much more peaceful at night. You don't have so much comotion going on. I'm usually up till about 5 in the morning and sleep untill 1 to 3 in the afternoon. There's only two days where I have to get up early in the morning.

Plus, you get to see all the great infomercials they play at night.

 

[Eggyman]

I am a really bad sleeper, mainly because I don't like it - I have things to do and am always hyper so prefer to be awake and doing 'stuff'.

I guess I'm just embracing it like 'Bleed mentioned... but I love it.

 

[Nirvana]

The past few weeks I've found myself staying up till nearly 5am and sleeping till about 2-3pm. Quite strange. But it's a lot peacefuller when everyone else is in bed and the sun's not out.

 

[NoName86]

Usually I work 3rd shift and go to school, but I took fall off. Now my sleeping has gotten so bad that I usually don't go to bed till about 2 in the afternoon and wake up at about 9:30 in the evening and let me tell you, I'm finding after working 3rd shift for 3 years now that human beings really aren't supposed to be up all night every night like this, it really does affect the body. I got me a box of sominex today though so I'm gonna try and set things straight.

 

[Spider-Who?]

This thread is really more about screwed up sleeping patterns, but the title covers it all.

Basically, for the past while, all my classes have been at 1 in the afternoon, and slowly I started sleeping in far, far too late. It's gotten progressively worse, and now I stay up 'til 5 in the morning and sleep until 2-3 in the afternoon. It's started to depress me to wake up only to see the sun go down a few hours later.

Anyway, post here with your tales of sleeping problems and related shenanigans.

Ah. The same happened to me when I was in college. It ended up causing alot of issues for me, and since then, sleeping at all has been a constant struggle. If you're looking to fix this problem, go to a doctor and they'll prescribe meds to help you fall asleep earlier and get into a good sleeping habit.

 

[The Squirrel]

This thread is really more about screwed up sleeping patterns, but the title covers it all.

Basically, for the past while, all my classes have been at 1 in the afternoon, and slowly I started sleeping in far, far too late. It's gotten progressively worse, and now I stay up 'til 5 in the morning and sleep until 2-3 in the afternoon. It's started to depress me to wake up only to see the sun go down a few hours later.

Anyway, post here with your tales of sleeping problems and related shenanigans.

Dude, I do almost the same thing.

When I drove out here to go to college, the 20 hours of no sleep, and then sleeping late after that really messed me up. And I still haven't gotten past it. Staying to like 4 am and then trying to get up for classes sucks.

 

[Majic Walrus]

I don't have insomnia really, but I usually can't get to sleep until early in the morning which makes waking up pretty hard.

 

[JLBats]

I couldn't sleep all night. I am in a very, very bad place mentally right now

 

[Bunker]

I stay up far too late on the weekends, which leaves me exhausted for school on Monday. I guess I just get distracted over and over by something on the computer and forget the time.

 

[Knightsaber Priss]

I have always suffered from insomnia ever since I could remember and I hate it. The weird thing is I have no issues getting to sleep with noise coming from someone in my direct vicinity, like a nephew visiting, but when it's just me, the littlest noise keeps me awake. I'd had a now estranged friend suggest sleeping pills, but I just have this phobia of anything pharmaceutical that comes in pill form, especially if it's used for the purpose of causing one to go to sleep. After what happened to Heath Ledger I'm afraid of accidentally giving myself too much of a dosage.

I couldn't sleep all night. I am in a very, very bad place mentally right now

Oh jeez, I hear you there. I hate being put in rough spots, especially situations I'm not quite used to being in, like 99.9% romantic situations. Sure I've had what could be called...flirtations...dates that didn't really amount to much of anything. But I have reason to believe I have at least two admirers, one curious and the other serious. The worst part is that to my knowledge they are both married. Now I've placed second to a lot of people in my life, like my Big Sister which I've mentioned elsewhere. I don't want to be second when it comes to my love life especially, but yet I'd feel guilty if I was the root cause of a nasty divorce. (I wouldn't be so hard on myself if it was an amicable one though, but I'd still feel guilty.) I suppose this owes a lot to my insomnia recently as well as Christmas and gifts for the kids in my family. I'm going to blow off my bills this week just to get gifts for a handful of my relatives with the rest receiving presents long after Christmas because that's what my budget can only afford to do. Plus my youngest sister's Ex is having a hard time financially and I want to buy gifts for his girlfriend's son and my nephew's half sister. I guess I just worry about a lot of people though there's really not much I can do.

 

[JLBats]

It's funny, my idiot friends decided it would be cool to watch ****ing Troy tonight, and I fell asleep during that. But now I've spent 8 hours trying and failed to fall asleep and get a healthy night's rest. Now I'm going to fall asleep in the middle of the day and sleep my whole ****ing day away and not be able to sleep tomorrow night.

 

[Knightsaber Priss]

It's funny, my idiot friends decided it would be cool to watch ****ing Troy tonight, and I fell asleep during that. But now I've spent 8 hours trying and failed to fall asleep and get a healthy night's rest. Now I'm going to fall asleep in the middle of the day and sleep my whole ****ing day away and not be able to sleep tomorrow night.

Heh, because of my work schedule I usually have to sleep during the day anyway. But yes, dull movies tend to make one quite sleepy.

 

[JLBats]

Lately it's like it's not even just my sleeping schedule being out of whack... my brain just will literally not shut off.

 

[Knightsaber Priss]

Lately it's like it's not even just my sleeping schedule being out of whack... my brain just will literally not shut off.

I can completely understand where you're coming from. Because of my little romantic drama I've been finding it hard to kill my overactive imagination inside my brain which keeps me from getting a moment's peace. I guess it's just the weight of the decisions that need to be made is getting to me. But it's not easy for me since both men have wives. If either one of them were single it'd be easier because I hate being a third wheel. But just to clarify, if it comes down to my choosing one or the other (I'd appreciate this being a face to face thing because the internet doesn't count for me when it's something this important.) even if both of them were to become free, I'd choose the one who is more serious and dedicated to a relationship than the one who is just curious because I don't like wasting my time as exhibited by those "flirtations" I mentioned. If there aren't any sparks right off the bat between us then I don't think it could work out. These thoughts have been causing me not to get to sleep......


.......along with the upstairs neighbor who is stomping around upstairs right now.

 

[JLBats]

I have a similar situation, except it's a whole thing involving twins, a campire and the Wizard of Oz... very complicated.

 

[Joker]

I've been awake since noon yesterday. It's 6:30 in the morning now, and I'll probably be up till at least 8 or so. And then cause it's my day off I'll sleep till 4 or 5, then stay up till 8 or 9, then wake up at 3 to work. This is pretty much standard for me, although some days I sleep more, and more often than not I sleep less.

I also sometimes just fall asleep at like, 2 in the morning and wake up at 4, before going back to bed at 8 or 9.

 

[ComicChick]

i've been insomniac-like since i was about 11 or 12.

my job doesn't really help. on the 1st and the 16th i have the 4am shift. monday night i didn't go to sleep, just stayed up and went straight to work and got off at 1230. i was sleep by 2pm and woke around 7. everytime the price change shift comes around it throws off whatever semblance of a normal sleeping pattern i have and just about the time i get it back to "normal" the next price change is up.

for instance, all this week i've been up past 2am every night. last night i went to sleep about 5am, (so techinically this morning),and i got up at 930am. been up since and i have to work at 830am tomorrow. i should be sleeping, but alas, i'm not.

the latest i've slept this week is 130pm, but i didn't go to sleep til after 6am that day

i'm a nocturnal person, and i just really dread sleep. when i was about 11, i used to read the sunday comics section and here, the back page is like a "did you know" page for kids with puzzles, trivia, etc. one of the trivia things was 'the average person sleeps 20 years of their life'. That terrified me. death scares me enough but thinking i was sleeping so much of my life away freaked me out.

to this day its rare when i get more than 6 hours of sleep a night.

 

[Mr.Webs]

I have nothing to contribute to the thread, since I sleep fine, BUT....great thread title man. Good reference.

 

[SLVRSR4]

I usually wake up around seven and go back to sleep around three till one and repeat. I like it at night, but it's not natural. We've only had electricity for a short while and humans are supposed to sleep when the sun goes down.

 

[Drakon]

I have such an effed sleep schedule, that if you look at my posting history since I joined this site, you'd think I was four different people. I actually used to have a thread that was kinda like a sleep journal here, but I think it was deleted.

 

[JLBats]

Well, it looks like this will be my third sleepless night in a row.

 

[Bunker]

Might I suggest sleeping pills?