How can I be this tired and still be awake?
Can I get a witness? Can I get an amen?
Work tomorrow is going to suck.
I am with you.
I have worked the graveyard shift for 3 years, and for the past 2 months I swear my body is telling me to knock it off.
Go drink a couple of beers. (Just don’t make it a habit)
Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? Morons!
~She’s not crazy knock on wood, just a little misunderstood… -Better Than Ezra
Been there. Actually still there a lot of the time.
What’s happening, Jodi? I don’t mean to pry, it’s just that there are so many reasons for insomnia, and I have experienced a couple. Sometimes, I’d get anxiety attacks, thinking in circles and being unable to sleep, and other times, I’d feel extremely tired, but I’d have insane stomach/intestine troubles and that would keep me awake. Both situations suck, just in different ways.
I hope you can get some sleep. I have seen doctors, some have given me drugs, but I really don’t like the idea of taking pills to go to sleep.
I just do without the pills and just lie down and keep completely still and slow down my breathing, a bit like meditation. I try to keep my mind free of stressful thoughts, sometimes by visualising some place I’d like to be, IE: a forest, and trying to get as many sensations involved. In the forest example, that would mean trying to visualise the trees, hear the rustling of the leaves an the grass, smell the plants, feel the wind, etc… I have found this very useful to help me get some sleep, and if it doesn’t get me to sleep, it still make me feel more rested than if I had spent the whole night stressing out over the fact that I wasn’t able to go to sleep.
Still, I know it’s all easier said than done, trust me.
Maybe I should look for the most boring webpage I can find so I can post a link here and BAM! put you to sleep!
I always tell people this and they never believe me. But here goes: Writing.
Whenever I can’t sleep, it’s because I have stuff rattling around in my head. thinking about work, women, somebody that pissed me off etc… The thought stream in my head won’t shut off. I’ve found that writing helps this. I get out my pad and pen and just write. Stream of consciousness writing, whatever is in my head at that moment goes on the page. Many times it comes out as nonsensical, but that’s ok. It shuts off the chatter in my head.
When I do this, I’m asleep in about 30 minutes. Beats staying up for hours.
Amen baby. Been there, mostly because my head was filled with women troubles, too much thinking not enough sleeping.
At the time, I could fall asleep watching TV no problem, get up and slide into the bed, and it’s awakesville. Sometimes a change of scenery helps, lie down on the couch and watch TV, or read, or write, whatever occupies your mind, and forget about the whole sleeping idea. Think about something else for a while and the bod takes care of the rest.
And your right, work IS going to suck, just try to avoid boring meetings that you will fall asleep in, I’ve found that to be personally embarassing. 
Been there, done that, they didn’t do the T-shirt in my size…
Unfortunately, I don’t have any suggestions for insomnia cures, so all I cna do is commiserate… spooje’s idea sounds good, but it doesn’t work for me - if I start doing anything vaguely creative, I tend to get interested in it and stick with it, so wind up staying awake longer.
(Though I had the opposite problem today, slept through my alarm clock. I think my body is trying to tell me something. Specifically, I think it’s trying to tell me “You nearly froze my backside off standing at the bus stop all that time yesterday. You think you’re getting out of this nice warm bed? Forget it, matey.” )
Why don’t you just sleep on it. I’m sure with a little rest it’ll be just fine in the morning.
:: ducks and runs ::
Hey, that sounds like it could work! Thanks spooje. I also suffer occasionally of insomnia from agitation, the stream of thougths spiraling in my head. What sucks even more in when you’re not sleeping but not awake either and you can’t stop circling in semi-coherent dream-like thoughts. More so when I wake up from a dream and I don’t want to/can’t go back to sleep.
Am I alone here?
I don’t know what causes it. I don’t think it’s stress. At least, it doesn’t seem to corrolate – sometimes if I’m stressed I can nevertheless sleep, and even if I can’t, it’s different than insomnia, which for me is just this weird inability to sleep.
I’m so tired tonight though that I imagine I’ll be able to sleep. And for me it seems to come and go, and I’m hoping it’ll go away again soon.
I understand some people have permanent insomnia. I don’t know how they function.
You know what they advertise on TV at 3:00am? Prescription sleeping pills. Oh thanks, lemme go to 7-11 and get a script off of Doctor Slurpee. Talk about eating in front of a starving man.
I believe that if you follow the advice of the fellow in Fight Club, your insomnia will be cured. Unfortunately, you have to deal with intense schizophrenia and an alter-ego that tries to destroy civilization, but those are small prices to pay for a good night’s sleep.
Fuck.
Fuck fuck fuck.
Jodi, give the writing thing a try. What could it hurt? Write down every random thought that comes into your head, no matter how weird or pointless. Do it for about 30 minutes.
For me, it’s like openeing a valve and letting stuff drain out. I feel very relaxed afterward.
Maybe it’ll be a waste of time for you, but what else have you got to do?
Well, let’s see –
Apparently, the beaujolais wine is exceptional in France this year, leading to celebrations among the vintners.
The Hindustani soap opera is strangely engaging, considering that I have no idea what’s being said. The “dun dun DUN” moment and the “overdone gasp” are universal soap characteristics.
It’s apparently possible to buy a vibrating belt for my abdomen, though I don’t think it would sufficiently enjoy the experience to justify the purchase.
Sea urchins can be harvested and cooked, but it’s unclear how much you would have to pay people to eat them.
That big-haired, tons o’ makeup blond woman crying in the name of Jesus is very scary. She looks like like an undead clown.
Sigh.
Okay, spooje, I’m gonna give the writing a try.