… clowns will eat me.
Nah. Well, nah on the clowns – definitely can’t sleep, though. Woke up over an hour ago and just can’t fall asleep. Too much going on, I guess.
Anyone else up when they should be sound asleep?
I should be asleep but we were at a Solstice party and I’m winding down.
I woke up at midnight, been having a lot of stress in the family.
Yup. I pulled an all-nighter last night, too. I wasn’t sober enough to drive home until 4:30 in the morning, and I knew if I went to sleep I would sleep through my alarm, miss work again and get fired. So I drank three Red Bulls and five cups of coffee, plus a couple more at work. I figure I’ve been up about 40 hours at this point. I still don’t really feel like going to sleep. But I don’t have to be at work until almost sundown, so I’ll be OK.
I’m wide awake, but only because I’m working the 10PM to 6AM shift. Yay mall security, paying me to read through the discworld series.
Been up over 24 hours. Still at work!
And we enter hour three of this bullshit …
I think I’m going to go back to bed, where at least I’ll be warm – I turn the heat down at night. 'Cause, yanno, I’m asleep under the down comforter then. :rolleyes:
Self hypnosis:
Get comfortable and lay flat on your back, room as silent as possible.
Breath regularly and then tell your toes to relax…fall asleep.
Then tell your feet to relax and fall asleep.
Tell your ankles to relax and then sleep.
Move up to your calves, tell them to relax and sleep.
Move up to your knees, do the same.
Then thighs.
Then groin and hips.
Mid section.
Then fingers, arms.
Chest.
Tell your heart to relax and breath regularly.
Work up to your shoulders.
By now, your body should be relaxed.
Then, when you get to your head - just envision moving off to some place calm…tell your brain to focus on something calm - a beach, travel to some far off place - something peaceful.
Pleasant dreams.
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Pleasant dreams? When I sleep my dreams are long, involved political parables with various animals as world leaders. Or I dream that I’m trying to explain our foreign policies and economy to someone. Or that Aleister Crowley, Kafka, and various left wing terrorists are following me around. Or that I’m reliving the less pleasant times of my childhood.
When I’ve had enough of that I wake up at 2:30 am and read message boards.
I’m up, worrying about studying for this round of finals. Instead of, say, actually studying. I’m just productive like that. I’ve got two that just may kill me, another that will take some effort but I’ll end up doing fairly well on, and one which will be a relative breeze.
And, oh, by the way, I have to find a place to live next year. Our campus, in their infinite wisdom, lets only a small number of upperclassmen live off campus, and they give releases all at once. It’s pretty much a race.
Also, I think this thread should be a long-term fixture here in MPSIMS. Gives all the night owls a place to congregate, instead of checking the other parts of the board and finding that, yep, nobody’s posting.
I was hoping to sleep in till at least 7, but at 5, I was wide awake - not too surprising, since that’s when I’m normally getting ready for work. So I’ve showered, tended to the critters, and I’m getting ready to sort thru a pile of stuff that I started sorting yesterday.
Yeah, I know, not as bad as some of you, but still aggravating - it’s as if I’m incapable of sleeping past 5. And I’m now officially on vacation for 2 weeks… Think I’ll make some tea. <sigh>
I woke up at 4:35, Florida time. I’ve made a pot of coffee, done a load of dishes, washed 12 new wine glasses by hand, and then had to rearrange a kitchen cabinet to get enough space to put them away. I think I’ll go take a nap.
Yup, I’m up too. sigh. I’m glad I’m in good company, though.
Wishing you all pleasant dreams if/when you get there.
Three hours sleep, then woke up from a disturbing dream. Now – I’m working in the wee small hours of the morning.
Coffee helps me keep awake to finish these reports – then, hopefully, I can get back to the land of Nod. (crossed fingers)
DMark – I don’t usually need such an elaborate version of self-hypnosis – usually, if I’m having a problem falling asleep (which is, thank god, quite infrequent), I can just lie there and think “serene” on my exhales. That often works. If it doesn’t, I count backwards. Starting at, like, 100. I can’t believe it works, so it’s a last resort – but it always does.
(FTR, BTW, I went back to sleep, had a long, weird dream about a friend’s daughter – who I’ve never met IRL [the daughter, not the friend, obviously], and slept till three hours past my usual weekday wakeup time – so I guess that makes up for the 2.5 hours I was awake in the middle of the night. Well, that and the nap I’ll no doubt take this afternoon.)
I have been awake since 5:00, when my daughter started crying for no apparent reason (she was still asleep), and stopped right after I went in her room to check on her.
Usually when I can’t fall asleep I do times tables in my head. Works pretty well, but after doing 2-5 last night, I didn’t feel like doing 6-?? this morning!
Not today, but last Thursday I was up at 3 O’ @!#@$ clock. But I had a good day anyway.