OK it is 3:34 in the AM and I can’t sleep. No big deal, I have tomorrow off. But that foul bitch Insomnia has been making her way into my home these last few nights and I’m already bored with her company.
Monday I have to go back to work - Insomnia, you had best be gone by then!
You too?
Only I actually had to come to the salt mines today.
I think insomnia is the universe’s way of telling us that we’ve been bitten by vampires, and had best adjust to the new schedule. Mmmm, Type A and vodka, smashing.
I’ve been waking up too much…I’m waay low on sleep, too. I need a horse tranq and about 24 solid hours of sleep.
I get occasional bouts of insomnia too; it’s only started in the past year. It will go on for several days before something “clicks” and my normal sleep pattern resumes.
I cannot f__king stand it. I am a miserable whiny pile of exhaustion. No amount of coffee can replace sleep. And I hate people who cheerfully tell me that “they’ve never slept more than four hours a night” and seem to feel that I’m greedy and lazy and stupid for wanting more than that.
I can function just fine with 5 or 6. I prefer 7 or 8.
If I get 2 or 3, I’m simply not myself.
My sympathies, Khadaji.
One more insomniac checking in. I go in phases, too. I had a few weeks where I was, miraculously, sleeping 8 hours/night (this NEVER happens). Now I’m back to the other extreme where I’ll fall asleep for a couple of hours, be awake for five or six, then fall asleep for another hour or so, generally waking up out of a peculiar dream/nightmare.
Hope yours clears up very soon!
GT
I got it alot in collage (though some of the time I thing it was due to a certain white powdery substance). One thing I found that worked quite often was to sleep in my bed backwards (head where my feet should be, feet where my head should be). Something about changing the settings always did it for me.
Yup. It sucks. My commiserations.
I usually get me three or four hours deep sleep (thank Og) but then I have two or three hours awake in the small hours. I can get myself back to sleep by reading, but when the alarm goes off I am not ready to wake up at all. Other nights I just about manage to sleep through until 5am but by then there is no chance of getting back to sleep. It’s like having permanent jet lag.
My insomnia started on Easter Sunday. Now I have sleep anxiety, which is anxiety over not being able to sleep. I took Ambien for a week or two but didn’t like it. Now I take Restoril which takes away the anxiety so I can sleep. But I’m scared to to stop the Restoril for fear the anxiety will come back!
I’ve been fighting the old foe of insomnia off and on since I started my associates degree back in 2005. Now that I’ve completed it, I thought that maybe it would have gone away. Unfortunately, it seems to get worse each time that it comes back for a visit…
Just curious. What do people do when they have that? What have people tried besides pharmaceuticals?
Insomnia is bad; the dreams you have when you finally doze off for one measly hour though, are much much worse!
You’d think your brain would congratulate you when you sleep, but instead it punishes you with nightmares that make you wish you’d satyed awake. I had this one dream the other night, where I had AIDS and had to spend all day sitting in my special AIDS chair.