The Sleeping Disorders Thread
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 8:10 pm
What you got?
I got sleeping paralysis.
I got sleeping paralysis.
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That's rough.Chicat wrote:Can't fall asleep
Can't stay asleep
Can't sleep in
I miss my ambien prescription. I should pick up another one of those.
What about just plain ol' Benedryl? My doctor said I can take that every night forever with no bad consequences.Chicat wrote:Can't fall asleep
Can't stay asleep
Can't sleep in
I miss my ambien prescription. I should pick up another one of those.
I don't like the Benedryl hangover. I'm foggy for hours. I wake up from Ambien ready to kick ass.Longhorned wrote:What about just plain ol' Benedryl? My doctor said I can take that every night forever with no bad consequences.Chicat wrote:Can't fall asleep
Can't stay asleep
Can't sleep in
I miss my ambien prescription. I should pick up another one of those.
The Nap thread... Oh boy77HoyaCat4Ever wrote:Perpetual insomniac here
brought on by years of taking call
I sleep 4-5 hours max a night
Haven't had a nap since the Nap Thread died
Re-fill! Re-fill! Re-fill! Re-fill! Gooooooooooooooo drugs!Chicat wrote:I don't like the Benedryl hangover. I'm foggy for hours. I wake up from Ambien ready to kick ass.Longhorned wrote:What about just plain ol' Benedryl? My doctor said I can take that every night forever with no bad consequences.Chicat wrote:Can't fall asleep
Can't stay asleep
Can't sleep in
I miss my ambien prescription. I should pick up another one of those.
That's what Seinfeld described as the impulse for entertainment as the only thing that sleep can't overcome. Sometimes I feel like I'm too tired to get myself ready for bed, and it 's easier just to keep watching Netflix.JMarkJohns wrote:It's very easy for me to not go to bed. I have to literally force myself to go to bed. I can easily veg out on TV, movies, etc until the 2/3/4 am marks. Can be mood based, but can literally hit in the midst of a TV show and all of a sudden I can't sleep until I've watched an entire season. I often times fall asleep on the couch or recliner and wake up at first light.
Yes... Plus I've always been an active thinker at night, even in bed. Late night threads at the old site all those years ago didn't help. And now I have TiVo, Netflix, Amazon Prime, OnDemand, HBO, Sports 24/7.... Not to mention my own DVD collections.Longhorned wrote:That's what Seinfeld described as the impulse for entertainment as the only thing that sleep can't overcome. Sometimes I feel like I'm too tired to get myself ready for bed, and it 's easier just to keep watching Netflix.JMarkJohns wrote:It's very easy for me to not go to bed. I have to literally force myself to go to bed. I can easily veg out on TV, movies, etc until the 2/3/4 am marks. Can be mood based, but can literally hit in the midst of a TV show and all of a sudden I can't sleep until I've watched an entire season. I often times fall asleep on the couch or recliner and wake up at first light.
Doesn't help. Prior to this a TV binge I book binged.Salty wrote:Read a book. That helps me too.
I just added this up. On the low side, it's about 23-25 hours a week, not counting sports, films or TV reruns of any kind.JMarkJohns wrote:Yes... Plus I've always been an active thinker at night, even in bed. Late night threads at the old site all those years ago didn't help. And now I have TiVo, Netflix, Amazon Prime, OnDemand, HBO, Sports 24/7.... Not to mention my own DVD collections.Longhorned wrote:That's what Seinfeld described as the impulse for entertainment as the only thing that sleep can't overcome. Sometimes I feel like I'm too tired to get myself ready for bed, and it 's easier just to keep watching Netflix.JMarkJohns wrote:It's very easy for me to not go to bed. I have to literally force myself to go to bed. I can easily veg out on TV, movies, etc until the 2/3/4 am marks. Can be mood based, but can literally hit in the midst of a TV show and all of a sudden I can't sleep until I've watched an entire season. I often times fall asleep on the couch or recliner and wake up at first light.
I'm driven by curiosity towards entertainment, wanting to see whatever piques my interest. I Binge on them. This past Spring while teaching 4 courses, running two labs, and sitting on two committees plus program meetings, I managed to watch the entire series of The Shield (7+ seasons), Justified (5 seasons), Game Of Thrones (3 seasons), Californication (3 seasons), How I Met Your Mother (8 seasons), Archer (4+ seasons), and I watched the BBC Sherlock seasons. That's in addition to almost every UA Basketball game, most Suns games, and random films, re-run TV, and starting multiple series and abandoning them.
I function well, but I wish I slept more.
I don't even have a dog because it's too much responsibility.Chicat wrote:JMark, I have a simple cure for you...
Have a kid.
I used to sleep well.Chicat wrote:JMark, I have a simple cure for you...
Have a kid.
Salty wrote:Read a book. That helps me too.
That's part of my problem; I read until 2 am. Have to get up at 545 or 0600.Salty wrote:Read a book. That helps me too.
Similar situation. I am more of a night person and so it is hard to wake early. However, I am someone who completely wakes up when I get up. I have never drank coffee and seldom have tea. I can get to sleep okay mostly but will wake during the night. Sometimes can't get back to sleep. By the time I have to get going, I really know that I could sleep if I had the opportunity. My brain sometimes will not turn off and thoughts just fly around in my head. OTOH, I have written songs in my dreams or come up with book ideas. Too bad I don't keep a journal because I forget them pretty quickly.Alieberman wrote:I used to sleep well.Chicat wrote:JMark, I have a simple cure for you...
Have a kid.
Then came the kids.
Then came anxiety / depression
Then came the dog that insists on going for a walk at 530am.
I am now always tired but I can never sleep for long periods of a time.
what the hell is that?ghostwhitehorse wrote:How about this one?
Just the one, right?Longhorned wrote:If you're over the age of 30, chances are you've got one of those living in your colon.
Only if you forgot to destroy your old hotel room keys.Chicat wrote:Is that the moment when someone implants the subconscious suggestion that you should sell your Fortune 500 company?
Here's the problem as I see it. For some reason, my wife (and I suspect other wives) holds to this eternal belief that seduction is as required several years into marriage as it was at the start of the relationship. What this means is that the frequency of sex, and the good sleep that follows, is actually entirely in our control (and not just in our hands) if only we put forth thoughtfully creative and time-invested seductions with frequency, as in multiple times a week. The reason why we don't is because that's ridiculous.Alieberman wrote:I only seem to sleep well if I have sex before bed.
I usually don't sleep well.
I keep trying to read this, but I always fall asleep before I'm finished.Longhorned wrote:Here's the problem as I see it. For some reason, my wife (and I suspect other wives) holds to this eternal belief that seduction is as required several years into marriage as it was at the start of the relationship. What this means is that the frequency of sex, and the good sleep that follows, is actually entirely in our control (and not just in our hands) if only we put forth thoughtfully creative and time-invested seductions with frequency, as in multiple times a week. The reason why we don't is because that's ridiculous.Alieberman wrote:I only seem to sleep well if I have sex before bed.
I usually don't sleep well.
Seduction is against our nature. Between the evening hours of 8:00 and 11:00, what we need is to slouch on the couch in a stained T-shirt while watching TV. We really, really need it. And then, without additional effort, we need to go straight to sex at 11:00, and then straight to sleep at 11:12. We really, really need it.
But we can't have those things in that order.
I would argue that it would be worse for us to give up the stained T-shirt time for the sake of seduction in order to have frequent sex. We'd be sexually satisfied and well-slept, but we'd go insane if we went to work every day and then came home to act like we're some kind of romantic, sensitive cognoscenti.
In fact, I think we wouldn't be able to turn it off and it would drive us over the edge. Women at work and in restaurants would start to find us almost unbearably attractive, but yet in an abstract, completely resistible kind of way -- like as a model for how the men that they actually want to sleep with (not us) should strive harder to be. The result would be alienation and unresolvable emptiness, an imprisonment of the endless cycle of seduction and monogamous sex. A French director would probably make a movie about us and our decision to lock ourselves in a walk-in refrigerator.
In my experience, that problem creates the long-term cycle. If I break the cycle, the problem doesn't come up again for a long time. I break the cycle by taking two Benedryls. The doctor says that's a fine drug abuse. Half an hour later I'm asleep through the whole night. I have to stick with the Benedryl for a few weeks, and then I quit and have no sleeping problems again for a long time. Then it happens again either because of stress, or because of a time zone change. Nothing but the Benedryl will break the ensuing cycle.gumby wrote:I struggle. My issue is not being able to fall asleep without watching TV, which diverts my brain from deeper thoughts. Can fall asleep all right, but when I awake in the middle of the night, I have to watch more tube. Can't sleep in, regardless of how the night went.
Napping on the weekends is a breeze, and I've come to value those. One hour, and I'm good.