Can you just hit the bed and nod out, or do you have to read/watch TV for awhile?
How long do you sleep on average?
Do you ever have those nights where your mind is going in a thousand places and you can’t fall asleep?
Considering I machine-gunned a busload of nuns to death back in the day, I sleep pretty good! Then again, these were EVIL nuns.
I’ve noticed of late that my sleep cycle has changed - guess it’s part of aging or something. I have to get up for work at 4:15 (for 2 more weeks, anyway) so by 8 in the evening or so, I’m pretty tired. I’ll generally go to bed and set the TV timer to turn off by 9:30 or 10 - sometimes I’ll fall asleep and the TV turns itself off, other times I just zap it myself and crash.
I can’t seem to get more than 7 hours of sleep. Even on weekends, I’m generally awake before 5, and once I’m awake, that’s it. Here it is, 6:20-ish on Sunday morning, and my 2nd load of laundry is in the washer, I’ve cleaned the catbox, and been surfing the boards for at least an hour.
Unfortunately, last night was one of those wake-up-every-couple-of-hours-for-no-reason nights. I was in bed before 9:30 and asleep before 10, and up at least 3 times during the night. GRRRRRRRRRR.
So, to answer: How well do I sleep? Not very, lately.
There was a time when I would go to bed, fall asleep for a few hours, be awake for a few hours, fall asleep for a few etc
Other nights I’d lie awake for hours, then fall asleep around 6 am.
Currently (because I’m in a Depression “low”) I sleep very soundly, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow I’m out like a light, and I sleep for hours 9 or 10. I get the distinct impression my life sucks so much I just can’t bare waking up.
I also have Seasonal Affective Disorder, and can [and have] sleep for 12- 14 hours a night - out cold.
I’m a very deep sleeper, I’ve slept through alarms [that beep for 15 minutes], phones ringing, people using the shower in my en-suite, the “worst thunderstorm in living memory”, and my cat jumping on me …
Not too well, usually. Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep, but usually it’s that I fall asleep fine, and then wake up after 4 or 5 hours. I think I’ve heard it called terminal insomnia–the beginning of the night is okay, but can’t sleep toward the end of the night.
When I wake up, I just lie in bed, thinking about things like how much air pressure my tires have, or the likelihood of the existence of supernatural beings, or whether I should trim my beard later that day, or the apparent discontinuity of matter at the sub-atomic level, or whether I should cut a student some slack for being late with an assignment, or pretty much anything. Sometimes I get up and read. About the time the alarm goes off, I’m ready to sleep for another 5 hours, but I get up and go to work.
Usually, I’m a pretty light sleeper. Once I woke up because my battery-powered clock stopped. I jerked up in bed, uncomfortably aware of an odd silence. I looked at my watch, which read 3:20 (or something), and then noticed that my bedside clock read 3:20, but had stopped. The lack of ticking woke me up.
I have a strange love-hate relationship with sleep. A week ago, after completing a big project at work, looking at a full day with nothing to do, I slept for 10 hours. I woke up thinking I’d gone to heaven. I love to sleep, but I have no talent for it at all. My wife, on the other hand, can sleep 12 hours at any time, and I’ve seen her sleep for 16 hours at a stretch when she’s been a little tired. If she has a day off when I’m working, it isn’t unheard of for me to come home after work and find her still asleep. Then again, when she has something to do, she’s fine with 6 hours of sleep.
I feel that way right now. Blech.
I sleep horribly. I toss and turn constantly. I will wake up at least 4 times during the night. And now, I can’t seem to sleep for more than 4 hours at a time. Regardless of how tired I am. I usually have to get up and dink around or read a book before I can get back to sleep.
I use to be totally opposite. One of the benefits of growing older I guess. I use to sleep ALL the time. If I wasn’t at work/school, I was sleeping. There were weekends when I would sleep for 12 hours, get up shower and eat, then go back to sleep for 12 hours.
I sleep badly. I used to use drink to get me to sleep. Now I read.
Sometimes I don’t want to read but then I just lie there, wide awake, and give in to the book. I usually get ‘into’ it pretty quickly.
Strangely enough, an active thought process actually helps me sleep. The thoughts seem to drag me into a dream or ‘day’ dream based on those thoughts.
The exception is when there is anxiety attached to those thoughts. Such as when I had mere weeks until the deadline for my University projects and I had managed to do virtually nothing. Or the night after my Hard disk crashed (and I hadn’t backed up my work)
TV does wonders. But I don’t have one in my bedroom. I can afford one but I am a champion procrastinator.
On average I get about 5-6 hours a night, almost always with wakeups mid-sleep.
I’ve never slept well. If I’m asleep for four hours in a row, it’s a really good night. Two to three hours of sleep between wakings is the norm for me - my entire life. Right now, however, with the peepers out, I wake up once or twice an hour. I hate frogs.
As for how long I sleep, about 6 to 7 hours on weeknights and 8 hours on weekends. I’ve tried (damn frogs) to get more sleep this week though, to counter-act the frogs and help myself endure 1.5 hours of over-time a day for half of last week and all of next week.
P.S. It doesn’t help living in a world where the majority of people have no sense of empathy for neighbours and do things like leave a dog out in the back yard.
A dog that, like most dogs, feels the need to bark constantly, for no apparent reason.
On weekdays I usually sleep for about eight hours. On weekends I get less, since I go to sleep later and still wake up in time for school (guess I’m conditioned). I almost never wake up during the night…apparently I sleep very soundly.
If I have a book to read, getting to sleep typically isn’t a problem…reading just a few pages (it doesn’t matter what I read) puts me out pretty quickly. If I don’t have something to read, it can take me a long time to conk out.
Also, I almost never remember any dreams I’ve had. Even if I do recall something, it’s not strong enough to survive for any amount of time after I wake.
Also 2.0, it’s almost impossible for me to fall back asleep once I wake. If that means I stay up until three and wake up at six-thirty, too bad - I’m up for good.
Every single night. I usually have to leave the TV or music going in order to give me a distraction.
I have a hard time with the transition between awake and asleep. If I’m awake, I’m apt to stay that way for far longer than the usual 16 hours most people maintain. I can often go 24 hours without even trying. On the flip-side, I have a hard time waking up after a normal 8 hours and will often go for 12, even if I didn’t stay awake for a huge chunk of time beforehand.
I think I need a 36 hour day.
How well do I sleep? I don’t sleep well at all. If I’m lucky enough to fall asleep within an hour, something will inevitably wake me up early in the morning. And once I wake up I can’t get back to sleep. Tiny little things wake me up to, like if somene has the TV on too loud downstairs or someone talking in the driveway. It’s kind of inconvenient to never be able to get enough sleep.
When I get migraines, I can either sleep all day, or not at all. Normaly I go to bed round 10:30, fall asleep round 11, and wake up at 6:30 for school. Once I get asleep, I don’t wake up until my alarm (I hate it for intruping my dreams). Since I have been depressed lately, and my dreams are better then my life, I have been taking 4 hour naps, then turning in early. I can’t wait till summer, when I can sleep all day. When I can’t sleep though, I meditate. It puts me right to sleep. Oh, a tip, when you can’t fall asleep after 20 minutes, get out of bed and do something mindless, like read or surf the net. Don’t lay awake in bed or look at the clock. It doesn’t get you tired any faster. And save the bed for only sleep and sex, so you body knows that when you lay down, its sleepy time. Or kinky time. GOD I HAVE TO STOP READING THOSE HEALTH ARTICLES!
When I was younger, I could sleep for 10-12 hours at a stretch. Nowadays, I can’t sleep longer than 7 hours. I go to bed between 1 and 2 and wake up between 7 and 8. My alarm is set for 8, but I always wake up a few minutes before it goes off. Some days, I just have to have a nap of two or three hours in the evening, because I can’t stay awake any longer. One odd thing, though, is that I have to wear earplugs, or I can’t fall asleep at all. Without them, I’d have to stay awake until my body was so exhausted it shut down - but if any noise occurred in the house it would wake me up.
I remember when I was a kid, my mom and grandmother would take a nap in the middle of the afternoon, and I could never figure out why. Now I know!
Naps are my friend.
All bad sleepers, huh. Me too. So; How jealous are you of people who sleep as soon as they smell their pillow?
I’m very jealous. WHY can one person sleep lovely, while the other isn’t rested at all? Grrrrr. :mad:
Depends on the situation. When the boyfriend’s around, I get to sleep easily, sleep for a long time, and feel rested when I wake up, but I also wake up more often - depending on what mood he’s in, he may try to wrap himself entirely around me while he’s asleep. It’s very cute, but it does prevent things like… moving. When he’s not around, my sleep isn’t interrupted as much, but it’s harder to get it when I want it and I’m often still tired afterward.
I’ve been sleeping better lately and I’m usually asleep within 30 minutes. I’m still a light sleeper and I am awakened very easily, though. It used to take me an hour or more on most nights for me to nod off. I usually go to bed at around midnight and on average I only sleep for about 5 to 6 hours a night. Even on weekends I wake up early (around 7:00 AM). I can’t sleep in complete silence, so I must have a fan running in order to sleep. The white noise also helps to drown out all the other miscellaneous sounds one hears at night (traffic outside, cats running around downstairs, etc.)
Sorry, gum, but I sleep like a rock every night. I fall asleep very, very quickly (without a book) and sleep like the dead. Oddly enough, I also tend to walk and talk in my sleep, but I never remember any of it - my wife gives me a report each morning.
I go to bed every weeknight at 10:00 and get up at 6:00. On weekends I tend to stay up later, and get up around 8:00 a.m. I’m also a champion napper. Give me about 20 minutes shut eye in the afternoon and I can take on the world.
I’m sorry, but this was too good not to highlight!
I think the good sleepers are too scared to post here for fear that us bad sleepers will creep up on them in the middle of the night and do something nasty lke soak their hands in warm water or shave their eyebrows!
I go for weeks averaging 3 hours or less each night. I absolutely cannot turn off my brain for at least an hour after laying down, and tv, music, and books only makes this worse. If I wake up and the sun is out, I cannot fall back asleep. I cannot go to sleep before 1:30/2:00 and I cannot sleep past 8:30/9:00 in the morning. I also sleep very lightly and find myself waking up multiple times each night.
Then, all of a sudden, I will crash into a four or five day cycle of needing 12 hours of sleep each day just to function. It’s very frustrating.