I fall asleep very easily. I like to read before bed, but I don’t need to.
8 hours on a weeknight. Sometimes 10 hours on the weekend. I looove to sleep. Loud noises, bright lights, moving vehicles, etc. don’t get between me and snooze time. A nice thunderstorm has a particularly soporific effect. Too much silence, on the other hand, can make me jumpy at times.
Not without the help of powerful amphetamines. “Can’t fall asleep” is an almost unknown state in my life.
I can fall asleep pretty easy, I just cannot sleep more than eight hours. If I do, I wind up with very bad, hangover type headaches.
Like a rock, baby. I can usually fall asleep in minutes, and sleep 8-9 hours easily, 11-14 hours on the weekend. After waking to answer the phone, pee, or turn off the alarm I am back asleep in under 30 seconds.
Sorry to rub it in to all the tosser-turners, but good G-d I love to sleep. I hope it doesn’t get worse as I get older. My father cannot sleep past 5:30 or 6:00 am, ever.
I usually read these type posts, see myself in someone else’s reply, and say yep, that’s me, no need to post. But, for this one
I stay up til 2 AM every day, from 8PM-2AM TV, reading, online, working out, biking, etc. never any thing planned, just whatever I feel like doing.
I get up at 6:30, everyday, and am usually completely rested, ready for the day. I have come to realize this is not absolutely normal, and after a sleep study I found I go into REM within minutes of lying down. I hit deep sleep within an hour and stay there until arount 6AM, when I start waking up. Oh, and for whatever quirk this is, I can’t sleep in total darkness at all.
I tend to stay pretty heavily medicated. I fall asleep within about 30 mins of taking my bedtime antihistamines. I’ll sleep 7-8 hours during the week and 8-10 hours on the weekend. But sometimes I get over medicated. You know when you’re so tired you’re shaking but you can’t keep your eyes closed? Like that. Before, I’d just go to work and be grumpy… But the demands of the pills are too strong. Within minutes of taking my morning antihistamines (the ones that *aren’t * supposed to make me sleepy) I crash. You can’t wake me up for at least 5 hours.
All my life I’ve slept well. Most nights it took about 10 to 20 minutes for me to fall asleep, then I’d stay asleep till the alarm went off (which I consider a bonus of being hearing impaired in one ear – sleep on that side and I won’t hear anything but the alarm anyway). The last few months, though, I’ve been waking up multiple times in the early morning. I still can’t figure out if I can blame it on the neighbors making noise or if it’s just me not being used to the (relatively) new place yet.
I am terrible at falling asleep. I lay there for hours on end thinking about everything that happened during my day and what my next day will be like. I’m also a very light sleeper. Anything wakes me up - hubby turning over, cats playing or fighting, bombs exploding, anything. Except the alarm clock - haha. That never wakes me up, ever. I guess once 5 or 6am hits, I’m out for good. Hubby has to literally drag me out of bed every morning.
I also cannot get more than 9 or 10 hours of sleep. If I sleep too much I get terrible headaches, just like BonoVox. (Which excited me to read, by the way. Everyone thinks I’m crazy when I tell them that.)
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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.
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And a good napper too, huh. :eek:
At least I don’t walk and talk in the little sleep I get. Aren’t you worried what you might say, while sleeping? Or, worse; Where you might end up? Have you ever found yourself in your neighbour’s wife’s bed - telling her what a lousy husband she has? 
No, I’ve never found myself in my neighbor’s wife’s bed (at least not uninvited 
), but I have awakened and been standing outside of my house.
According to my wife, last night I woke her up around 3:00 a.m. if she liked my leather chaps, and then told her that she had a “fantastic fucking ass.”
I don’t remember it at all.
I try to keep my bedtime at 10:00 p.m. If I am lucky I will fall asleep within about 45 minutes. Usually it takes an hour or more, say 11:00 - 11:30, before I finally fall asleep. I believe I have what someone earlier called “terminal insomnia” - I will only sleep soundly for about 3-4 hours; after that I wake up every hour until the alarm goes off at 6:30.
I wear earplugs, and am still a very light sleeper. Napping is out of the question since it takes me so much longer to fall asleep than most people spend doing the actual napping. And if I manage to do it, I always feel worse when I wake up, not better.
On weekends I go to bed at about midnight, and sleep until 3:00 p.m. the next day. I wake up often during that time but I learned that actually getting up at say, 10:00 a.m. only makes me feel like crap the entire day; I literally can’t hold my eyes open. So I make every effort to lay in that bed, sleeping or not, until my SO forces me out at 3:00. It’s usually enough.
I sleep like a baby.
A smelly, snoring, drunk-ass baby.
I don’t know - I’m usually unconscious.
I had a terrible time sleeping from the time I can remember (maybe age 5?), until age 35. I have that mind racing thing going on. About every 6th night I’d be so exhausted I’d sleep for 10-12 hours. Usually Saturdays, but I could never fall asleep until 4am to 7:00 am.
A wonderful doctor gave me Ambien about 2 years ago. It has been pretty close to the perfect drug for me. No side effects. I get 7.5 hours of sleep every night, unless I’m extra stressed out.
Sleeping every night has dramatically improved my life.
I wish I was a normal sleeper or at least someone who could take an over the counter med to sleep. Maybe someday.
It takes me anywhere from 15 minutes to 1 1/2 hours to get to sleep. After that I’m out for 6-7 hours weekdays, 8-9 weekends. But apparently it’s not very good sleep, as I’m always tired. I can’t make it through the day without a nap. It’s bad enough that I had a sleep study done. They said I have sleep apnea, and I’m going to have a second sleep study done with a CPAP to see if it helps.
I’m usually asleep three minutes after putting down my book. I read anywhere from five words to 50 pages.
I have to read to fall asleep, usually, unless there is a kitten purring on my neck.