I hear zombies sleep well, at least until they get a craving for brains…
You probably already know this but those are two very different amounts of caffeine. A 350 ml serving of Coca-Cola has about 40mg of caffeine in it. A cup of coffee has about 100mg; so, when I see “a few” I’m thinking you are taking in about 300mg caffeine in the morning. Going to bed sixteen hours later there is still as much caffeine acting on your brain as if you had a Coca-Cola right before bed.
People seem to overestimate the caffeine in Coke and underestimate it in coffee - probably just only knowing that they both “have caffeine” and that’s that.
Just be thankful you don’t have Fatal familial insomnia.
zombie or no
they won’t be sneaking up on you.
Heh heh.
For my chronic and worsening inability to stay asleep at night my doctor prescribed a very small evening dose of trazadone, a seratonin uptake inhibitor (antidepressant). She explained that some people – especially older people – cease to produce enough seratonin to stay deeply asleep. All I know is, it works fairly well, and has no side effects at the dosage I am using.
I was a light sleeper until I learned to sleep with earplugs. Hear-os are indeed very good. My husband wears the blue ones. I prefer the neon yellow ones from AO Safety.
Trazadone is my friend.
In a “friend who I sometimes sleep with” sense. I occasionally go through stretches where I wake up in the wee hours and canNOT get back to sleep. I take a half-dose before bed, and stand a much better chance of dropping back off if I wake up.
I also fall asleep to an audiobook or a podcast, and listen to one if I can’t go back to sleep. That way, if it takes an hour, hey, I’ve gotten an hour of reading in! But it also keeps me from thinking about my problems, if Kinsey Milhone is having problems of her own… as I d r i f f f f t . . . o f f f f … f f f …
I have the opposite problem. I have trouble sleeping in my own bed, but in my GF’s bed I fall asleep almost instantly. I think she fills her mattress with morphene.
God yes, earplugs, really good ones like the ones I finally found from Beneficial Products, inexpensive and they work. BF goes to sleep early and then gets up and wanders around all nite. The noise left me in a constant state of sleep deprivation, because I am such a light sleeper. Last nite he was up at 10p, and never went back to sleep. It used to be TV noise up, TV noise down, computer printing, etc. Now I can mostly sleep thru it, except for the light. Sigh, I need to find a sleep mask I can actually wear with out feeling all claustrophobic. I am so light sensitive that one nite the cops shone a light into the bedroom (they were looking for an address) and I was up, and told the BF, just before they knocked on the door. At 2am!!! (They had a report our dog was barking. We don’t have a dog.)
Can we trade? Nothing will wake me up. I routinely set 4 alarms each morning, yet still sleep through them even though the ringing lasts an hour (or so the neighbors say). I have slept through my home security alarm. I have slept through the telephone ringing and people leaving messages (and have slept through answering the telephone and insisting that I was up). I have slept through being paged. I have slept through my mother coming over to my house when I was napping, ringing the doorbell, using her key to enter, walking up the stairs and leaving a brown paper bag with a bagel next to my bed. I can sleep with the lights on. I can sleep with the television on. My staff has strict orders to keep telephoning me every half hour if I am late to work until I actually show up. (And yes-I have had a sleep study and been told that I snore, I grind my teeth, and I talk in my sleep but I otherwise have no sleep disorders-in other words, I’m healthy but nobody would ever want to sleep in the same room with me). Short of hiring somebody to dump cold water on me every morning I’m not quite sure what to do next.
Wow. Is this even if you’ve had the proper quantity of sleep?
I wonder if one of those bed-vibrating alarms would help? or something that combined flashing lights and vibrating? or one of those alarm clocks that runs around the room? (well, you might sleep through it… but if it was attached to a string tied to your finger or something…). Other than that, perhaps the sleep study missed something because it’s hard to get normal deep sleep at a sleep center (veteran of them, here).
For folks who wake up far too often, sometimes that too can be a sign of a disorder where you’re not hitting the deep sleep stages like you should.
Like digs, I too keep a podcast or audiobook queued up. So when I do get up for a bathroom break, I don’t start fretting about whatever and find it impossible to get back to sleep. It absorbs my mind just enough that the rusty cogs can’t get turning and really waking me up.