Insomniac Posts

[mith]

Stupid Fantasy Football. Woke up at 3 wondering how Vick was doing.

[Jedo the Jedi]

He rushed for like a 20-yard touchdown. Hopefully that's good.

[wordcross]

only you would think so.
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

[Jedo the Jedi]

I meant that I wasn't sure if that was helpful or not. I really don't like Vick, and it doesn't do me any good if he does well.

[wordcross]

whatever, I'm just being deliberately annoying
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

[inHimshallibe]

I'll be burning that midnight oil (two Final Exams tomorrow). Maybe I'll venture here later.

[Mackay]

You know those nights where you are tired, but just don't *want* to sleep?

I'm having one of those.

I'm bored out of my brain, have gone through all my usual sites and stuff, I'm sleepy and I work tomorrow. But I don't want to be alone in the dark with my thoughts tonight. I don't even have any particularly bad thoughts to be worried about.

I dunno.

I guess I'd better go to bed. G'night, GL.

[Talitha]

Sleep is a blissful release from my thoughts... it's daylight I fear!

[Bicho the Inhaler]

I woke up at about 4 AM (about 4 hours of sleep) and was unable to go back to sleep. Actually, I was woken up by an insect crawling on my face. I dreamed that there was a fly on my face, and when I got rid of it, another fly would fly in and replace it, ad infinitum. Of course, the reason for this is that in real life, I was not doing anything to the physical insect.

It's 6 AM, and there's not much hope of going back to sleep. Blast!

[CzarJ]

Just got done watching Closer on HBO. Good movie, but wasn't a good choice. Made me cynical and mopey, which I haven't been in a long time and have no desire to be again. Kept trying to draw parallels between the movie and myself, a certain girl, and a certain other guy, and, needless to say, as a mental excercise, it didn't end well.

[The Ragin' South Asian]

2006 has been a bad year for sleep

[Samadhi]

Tell that to the sleeper steelers.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[The Ragin' South Asian]

They can only sleepwalk so far before running into a wall of 'hawk.

[Samadhi]

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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[Mackay]

lalalalalalalala

[Lepton*]

Well, that's the last time I ever start marking in the evening. (it's 10:30 AM)

[Bicho the Inhaler]

Man, that sucks hard.

As for me, I just can't seem to get to sleep tonight.

[Samadhi]

[CzarJ]

I've been working on my calculus homework for something like 6 hours now. I've been partially watching TV, but I highly doubt I'd be done much sooner if I hadn't. The brain needs some kind of diversion now and again; if not for the TV, I expect I'd invent some twisted hallucination involving partial derivatives and tangent planes.

Now we know what my dreams will be about when I finally do get to bed.

[The Ragin' South Asian]

Up late doing work, if I go to sleep now, there is 0 chance that I'll wake up for my test tomorrow morning.

[Bicho the Inhaler]

Tonight I'm staying up intentionally to get work done. I even took a nap in the evening to make it easier (as opposed to doing the work first, then attempting to sleep for ~2 hours but actually waking up late and missing classes). At this point, all-nighters aren't such a big deal, but there are a few things that will always suck.

• As the night progresses, it becomes increasingly difficult to concentrate, and after that, it becomes hard to think clearly at all. This causes productivity to drop off sharply, greatly reducing the potential positive impact of staying up to work.
  
• The day after, at certain times of little/no activity (like during a lecture), it becomes almost impossible to stay awake. There is always a period of about 20 minutes in which it is a constant fight to stay awake, and I almost always lose.
  
• The worst thing, probably, is being hungry. I have small snacks around, but no real food (and very limited options for preparing food), and being awake for long periods of time without eating makes one feel pretty bad.
  

[CzarJ]

I have a bad habit of allowing myself to stay up as late as my roommate does most of the time, despite the fact that I have an 8:30 class every monrning, and his classes start 10:30 MWF, 2:30 Thursday, and not at all Tuesday. Tonight, he's at home (had to do something with his parents or something), and I had planned on going to bed a reasonable time (say, before 12:00), but I let myself get carried away playing Kingdom of Loathing (I defeated the Naughty Sorceress and ascended, then played my new adventures as a pastamancer) and it took forever, and for some reason, now that I'm done, I'm simply not tired. I have to make the fun decision of whether it's best at this point to go to bed and try desperately to sleep for four hours or just stay up until class. I'll probably go to bed, knowing that if I try and stay up, I'll end up just surrendering and going to bed in a couple of hours, which is about the worst thing I could do. On the other hand, if I stay up I can try and get caught up on my reading for my Religion in Everyday Life class, since I'm something like 300 pages behind at this point. Meh.

[simsim]

Hehe, I had to post here, i am viewer number 5000!!!!
Seems to be alot of ppl not sleeping.

Hmmm, maybe i should do something like that, i have to be at work in 8 hours

Oh well

[Dragon Phoenix]

Woke up after 3 hours of sleep, been awake ever since. Bah.

[Mackay]

Holy shizzit, simsim posted in here while I was in Seattle?!

*snogs Simmone, gives knee bitage*

Um, where was I?

Oh, right. I was going to whine about my not sleeping.

Not any particular lack of ability to sleep - in fact, I'm quite sleepy though it's "only" 4:52am (my current bedtime is 6-7am) - but the simple fact that I won't.

I don't wanna.

There is absolutely no reason I should feel any reason/need to stay up whatsoever. I've already decided to myself that I'm too dopey to attempt any of the projects/emails on which I should be working. The GL is extremely slow today (though I fear that I may be spiralling into "insomniac posting frenzy" mode), so there's no real point in my hanging around. And there's not that much on the Internet which is catching my interest at the moment. I just wanna see people post!

Is it merely my internet addiction? The desire to see something I can respond to, and then decide "I'll respond to it tomorrow" and go to bed?

Ummmmm... what other things about which I can rant...

*seeks other threads in which to do so, prepares for insomniac postfest*
*or sleep. I am pretty sleepy.*

[jesus_saves]

its not excessively late (1225am), but i have to atleast go out again to avoid hearing my roommate (in her own separate bedroom) having sex. they re not excessively loud, but the walls are thin and were there no walls our beds would be next to each other.

oh the fun. i ll certainly be up for a bit.
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³⁹ Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord

~Romans 8:38-39

[HyToFry]

I've been awake so long that this should go in the drunken posts thread.

Note for all you kiddies: Having a dramatic life style is NOT the way to go.
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"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again." Hi ho.

[Samadhi]

I've found that drinking heavily induces a fairly regular sleep cycle.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[HyToFry]

Unfortunately, that also increases the drama levels of my life.

On a good note, I slept almost five hours. w00t!
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"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again." Hi ho.

[HyToFry]

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"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again." Hi ho.

[Samadhi]

I have a meditation routine that I learned when I was ~16. I rely on it very much. There are many times when my mind races and runs over things again and again. This routine doesn't always lead to sleep but it always leads to a release of tension and to a state, that while not sleep, is nearly as good as sleep.

I wish I could find the audio, the narrator had such a great voice. But it is basically akin to meditation, it takes practice.....and it's a life saver.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[HyToFry]

I would really appreciate it, and consider it a personal favor, if you found it.
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"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again." Hi ho.

[Samadhi]

I found this: http://www.hscti.com/autogenictraining.pdf
No audio, but it describes the technique well.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[Samadhi]

Now, if you could get Will Lyman to narrate, you'd be all set....
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[HyToFry]

I was thinking Ben Stein.

I'm reading it now.

Thanks Sam.
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"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again." Hi ho.

[HyToFry]

*praises for Sam*

I've been reading the instructions...

I tried the exercises, but didn't get all the steps done. I did, however, get ten hours of sleep last night.

I'm up again tonight, but I am working on the exercises... I'll keep you lot updated.
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"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again." Hi ho.

[Samadhi]

Sweet!

I did some more research, based on the tape I remember hearing.

The rounds go:
My right arm is heavy (3)
My left arm is heavy (3)
Both my arms are heavy (3)
My right leg is heavy (3)
My left leg is heavy (3)
Both my legs are heavy (3)
My arms and legs are heavy (3)

Here's where what I know diverges from the main ones I read:

My right arm is warm (3)
My left arm is warm (3)
Both my arms are warm (3)
My right leg is warm (3)
My left leg is warm (3)
Both my legs are warm (3)
My arms and legs are warm (3)
My arms and legs are heavy and warm (3)

Now, if you're still awake, you can move on the next bit:

My breathing is calm and relaxed (3)
My stomach is warm (3) [replace with belly or solar plexus or whatever works best for you]
My forehead is cool (3)


That's it. But I wish I had the tape. He explains how saying these things are just a mantra that makes them true. If you try to force it, it won't work. But if you just run through it, it will happen.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[HyToFry]

So you're saying I *shouldn't* try to feel my arm getting heavier? Just read through them and let my mind do it's thing?

'cause that's what I read, but that seems not quite right.
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"History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again." Hi ho.

[Samadhi]

Not exactly. Feel it, don't force it.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.

[Samadhi]

The original tape that I listened to had baroque music in the background and the narrator explained how baroque = good because it's 4/4 which is the typical heartbeat. And while learning all that, it worked great. But within the last few years, my mind wanders.

Last night I played some electronica and I was amazed. Even though it was like umpteenmillion beats per second, I got the deepest meditation I have in years. The only thing I can think is that the music distracted some part of my mind while at the same time blocking out outside noises allowing another part of my mind to focus. Odd.
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And he lived happily ever after. Except for the dieing at the end and the heartbreak in between.