# The Insomnia Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 19, 2010, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725 "2010-08-19T07:32:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/1 "2010-08-19T07:32:06Z")
Well, I’m still awake. Wide awake. Not even sleepy. Sure, I’m _tired_, but I’m not _sleepy_. I don’t want this to turn into a thread about meditation or medication etc… just a place for us insomniacs to wave to each other and say hi. Maybe share some interesting things to do at 3:30am to help pass the time. I think I’m going to watch a Netflix streaming movie in a few minutes, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/2 "2010-08-19T07:42:24Z")
I’m eating raw carrots and FaceBooking. Had my first “chat” sex EVER. Like. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/3 "2010-08-19T07:46:22Z")
I’m at work, and will be all night so I hear ya. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/4 "2010-08-19T07:47:37Z")
Raw carrots sounds good! I just had some baked beans a little while ago. Facebooked for a while, too. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/5 "2010-08-19T07:55:46Z")
I’m at work too. Plus, it’s the middle of the day. Don’t you just love time zones? ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/6 "2010-08-19T09:19:28Z")
Well then what are you doing in this thread in the middle of the day? It’s the Insomnia Thread. I’m still up, by the way. It’s after 5am ☹ ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/7 "2010-08-19T09:29:23Z")
It’s 2:30 in the morning where I’m at. But I’m not an insomniac. I just woke up at 3 in the afternoon. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/8 "2010-08-19T10:08:51Z")
From my own experience, being on the computer or watching tv are about the worst things you can do when you have insomnia - there’s something about that screen that wires your brain to ‘stay awake’ mode. Problem is, there’s so little else to do in the middle of the night! ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/9 "2010-08-19T10:11:52Z")
I always try reading a book. And I don’t mean some interesting book, because that’ll keep me up all night. I like reading boring books because I zone out. Video games and anything involving a screen just makes my brain activity go way up. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/10 "2010-08-19T10:16:09Z")
I’ve tried it all including laying in bed in a dark room for 4 hours with my eyes closed. My brain just flat out does NOT like turning off. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/11 "2010-08-19T14:20:09Z")
Why I love this place? No one even bats an eyelash when I say I’ve just had “chat” sex for the first time. Love it! ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/12 "2010-08-19T15:12:39Z")
I woke up about 3am with an intestinal thing I get. It only bothers me when I manage to sleep, not when I have insomnia and I’m already awake. Once it’s over I manage to get back to sleep because I’m exhausted. Normally, I work 3 nights a week and don’t get home until midnight or later so I am often awake until 2 am. Sometimes I end up not being sleepy or able to turn off my brain and I’m awake until 4 or 5 am. Those days it seems guaranteed that something will then wake me up about 9am, which pisses me off. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Mood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@Blue\_Mood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Mood)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/13 "2010-08-19T17:20:20Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > Love it! So you’re a sex chat addict now? Glad you enjoyed it so much. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/14 "2010-08-19T19:01:40Z")
> [@Blue\_Mood](#): > > > [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > > > Love it! > > So you’re a sex chat addict now? Glad you enjoyed it so much. And HOW! Sort of blew me away, actually! ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/15 "2010-08-19T19:31:51Z")
I am so damn tired. My insomnia has mostly been behaving itself the last few days. Last night really sucked though. I had to wake up early on Wednesday and was in the car all day (plus I spent 3 hours wandering around the mall while the Car Spa guys made the car no longer look like a scene from the Exorcist). I was soooooooo tired. I could not fall asleep. I think i finally dozed off around 5am. I was woken up around 630 when one of my dogs barked in her sleep. I was woken up again at 815 because my boyfriend was in the garage (shares a wall with the bedroom) and he knocked the ladder off the wall. Since I had to make an important call at 915, I just stayed up. Now I want so badly to just curl up in a little ball on the couch (lucky puppies are already doing that) and go to sleep but I know that if I do, I wont fall asleep again tonight. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/16 "2010-08-19T19:36:25Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > > [@Blue\_Mood](#): > > > > So you’re a sex chat addict now? Glad you enjoyed it so much. > > And HOW! Sort of blew me away, actually! Did you know the person you were making the chat nookie with? ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/17 "2010-08-20T08:16:23Z")
> [@congodwarf](#): > > > [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > > > And HOW! Sort of blew me away, actually! > > Did you know the person you were making the chat nookie with? Absolutely! I’ve known him for about 15 years; we reconnected recently and have been out on a couple of dates; exchanged some kisses; slept together, but actually just slept. I’ve never done anything like that before. It was GREAT! And I would only do it with someone I knew and trusted. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/18 "2010-08-20T08:51:40Z")
Hello, that would be me too. I see the difference between tired and sleepy. I’m almost always tired, but that doesn’t mean I can sleep. It sucks. If I drink enough I can pass out for a few hours, but that hardly seems like a long-term solution and doesn’t seem too healthy. It doesn’t last all night either. Often I’ll lay in bed trying to sleep for hours before I finally give up and do something else. But I’m still too tired to do anything all that productive. Being an insomniac sucks! My insurance doesn’t cover Lunesta, Ambien makes me hallucinate, and some other drug I can’t think the name of right now (also used for depression) just fucks up about every single thing about me. Benadryl makes me a little drowsy, but that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2010, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/19 "2010-08-20T09:52:24Z")
This morning sucked. I went to bed at 8 AM, and was awake at 11 AM because some bunghole was banging on my door. It wasn’t the cops so I didn’t answer it, then couldn’t get back to sleep. So… **Hazle** … how YOU doin’? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725/20 "2010-08-21T03:39:36Z")
Inevitably when I am up until 6am with insomnia, some numbnuts calls me at 8am from some office somewhere to verify an appointment or check on something… WHY AT 8AM ASSHOLES!? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-insomnia-thread/550725.md?page=2)