# Insomnia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 28, 2000, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia/31012 "2000-08-28T07:03:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2000, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia/31012/1 "2000-08-28T07:03:20Z")
It’s three am. I can’t sleep. Woke up at 120am to take care of Child numero 2. Crawled back in bed and laid there in and out of slumber until a room service call from overflowing diaper boy came in an hour later. Here I am in front of Straight Dope trying to think of something witty. Ideas flow through my mind like water through a sieve, like if I shave my dog could I then Nair her forever to keep the fur count down in this house. Would then said dog need therapy for being the worlds largest hairless non-chihuahua. I didn’t say they were good ideas. I hate this… ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2000, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia/31012/2 "2000-08-28T07:10:52Z")
Hiya, Shirley! Welcome to the club. Sleepless nights, crabby days, bad skin, and nice dark circles under your eyes. Great club to be in, eh? Well, hopefully for you this doesn’t happen often. \ Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2000, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia/31012/3 "2000-08-28T07:13:56Z")
Yep - another insomniac here. Not a nice feeling is it? And yet you’re conscious enough to have a vague suspicion that you’re not quite taking it all in. Avoid becoming a regular member Shirley. Although ssskuggiii would enjoy your random thoughts by the sound of it… ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2000, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia/31012/4 "2000-08-28T08:47:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dpr \* > **Avoid becoming a regular member Shirley.** How true that is. I’m not only a regular member, I could very well be the president (though for now I’ll bide my time and be content with being the treasurer). I can easily go 3 days without sleeping, and have several times in the past couple of weeks. I slept today and that was my first sleep in 4 days. I write a lot, read, watch movies and TV, play and write music. Though, I’ve been doing that ever since I was a little kid. But that’s just me. I hope you can fall asleep. If you’re not used to getting a lot of sleep, insomnia is hell. If I go say a 5 days or so without sleep, even I can’t stand it. I get mad at everyone and frustrated at everything. I wish I could offer some suggestions to get to sleep, but I’m not exactly the person to ask. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2000, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia/31012/5 "2000-08-28T09:19:42Z")
You can console yourself with the fact that if you are up at this hour, you can always interact with us night-owl, third-shift workers! Hi, Shirley! ---
**Author:** ![NothingMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b77776/32.png) [@NothingMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NothingMan)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2000, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia/31012/6 "2000-08-28T09:30:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by evilbeth \* > \*\*You can console yourself with the fact that if you are up at this hour, you can always interact with us night-owl, third-shift workers! > > Hi, Shirley! \*\* I second that ! I can’t sleep either, its just that I try during the day. Working hard right now. How often do you really get to see a **NM** post so quickly ? Wait around aboud 30 minutes and **Coldfire** should be about. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2000, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia/31012/7 "2000-08-28T09:35:52Z")
Ah, hell, I’ve been routinely staying up 'til 4:00 AM for the past couple weeks. And I still go to bed completely not-tired. Then I toss and turn for about an hour… and next morning, I sleep in 'til 2:00 or 3:00. Gotta get back in the habit of going to bed at 1:00… after all, school starts in a week, which means I’ll be having to get up at 9:35. Scary shit there, man. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2000, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia/31012/8 "2000-08-28T10:05:05Z")
Shirley, hope you’re asleep by now… evilbeth–I guess I didn’t realize you were 3rd shift, too… What time do you get to go home? ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia/31012/9 "2000-08-29T08:12:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TroubleAgain \* > \*\*Shirley, hope you’re asleep by now… > > evilbeth–I guess I didn’t realize you were 3rd shift, too… What time do you get to go home? \*\* Just about the time you posted actually! I leave the office between 6 and 6:30am (eastern time). I am here (work and the SDMB) Saturday night through Wednesday night every week! Yee-haw! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia/31012/10 "2000-08-29T08:25:46Z")
Me again. About 25 hours later. I’ve had maybe two hours of sleep since my last post in this thread. I fear I’m a lifer. ---
**Author:** ![Lazarus7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/67e7ee/32.png) [@Lazarus7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazarus7)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia/31012/11 "2000-08-29T08:40:25Z")
Oh please let me sleep … I would quite possibly sell a piece of my soul for good solid sleep. It has been so long. ---
**Author:** ![hardcore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@hardcore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardcore)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia/31012/12 "2000-08-29T11:26:18Z")
Insomnia is simply evolution in action. As our civilization increasingly becomes 24 hr (it almost is now in the US), those of us who require less sleep will be more efficient beings capable of greater output. Insomniacs will become the next century’s multi-trillionaires. damn, maybe I should get some sleep… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia/31012/13 "2000-08-29T11:41:31Z")
Wow, my little brain fart of a thread really picked up some moss as it rolled down the quick slope of doper obscurity. Evilbeth, I work 1st, 2nd and 3rd shift. I like hardcore’s explanation best, that we are all the next trillionaires. It is nice to know I am not alone. ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2000, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insomnia/31012/14 "2000-08-29T12:24:20Z")
Thats me, sleepless in Edmonton, independently wealthy but I just don’t want to spend my money on getting the bags removed from under my eyes. I think we should start a middle of the night game club.