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Bicho the Inhaler · Daedalian Member

In the spirit of "Drunken Posts." Post here if you can't sleep and happen to be at the GL.

I got really tired at about 9 PM today, fell asleep, woke up at midnight, and haven't been able to fall asleep since. It's now 4:30 AM...

What to do, what to do...

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

i stay up until 2 am and then get at 2 pm. does that count? Right now it is almost 1 am.

Bicho the Inhaler · Daedalian Member

I don't think it's considered insomnia unless you're trying to sleep and can't. But by all means, post here

Mackay · Saviour of Spiders

The problem is, when I have insomnia, I just post here all the time anyway, on account of you people are all awake anyway. Pah, I started this trend.

Anyway, it's 12:30 and nowhere near late yet, but I'm going strong. My normal bed time is between 4 and 9am. Just so you know - I think I qualify.

casinopete · Emergency Backup Antrax

But it's not just a matter of bedtime.

It's more a matter of getting less than four hours of sleep a night all week, and still being unable to sleep on weekends.

I have a friend who is mildly envious that I "can get by" on five hours a night, whereas he "can't help but get 8 hours." The bastard.

luminous · madre de succulante

I'm an insomniac. I have medication I could take for it, but it makes me drowsy during the day and I hate that. So, I just stay up and do things that should induce sleep (like read jane eyre).

Mackay · Saviour of Spiders

Yeah... I used to have sleeping pills, but they wouldn't work. I mean, they'd make me sleepy, but I still couldn't shut my mind down for the night.
Also, I used to take them all at once. Bah @ being screwed up.
Is that the problem you have with sleeping, lumi? You just keep thinking and thinking and it keeps you awake?

luminous · madre de succulante

Yeah (Oookay, stop thinking. ... Hey! It's working! Wait..shit!) That, and even though I know I need to sleep, I don't like to. I'm pretty frightened of the stuff I see in my dreams, and I don't like to wake up bleeding. Ah well.

It's gotten to the point that I'm not tired when I should be during the night at all but I'm getting physically sick from the lack of rest.

Meh.

[This message has been edited by luminous (edited 06-27-2003 01:31 PM).]

Vinny · Promiscuous enough

The trick to stopping thinking isn't to try to stop thinking, but to think about something else that isn't anxiety inducing. Try focusing on your breathing and your abdoment. That sometimes help. I still get insomnia every once in a while, but that's mostly when I have a lot things worrying at me that I can't help but let them get to me.

Also try, shaking your feet back and forth, for a really long time, like 30 minutes, until the point when you stop, you can fee warm tingling feeling going all up and down your legs, feet, toes, etc. That sometime helps too.

luminous · madre de succulante

My insomnia makes me giggle.

jeep · Daedalian Member

Lumi, what pill do you have? Most sleeping pills do nothing for me except wake me up a bit. Ambien actually worked for me though. It knocks me right out and I CANNOT be wakened for at least 6 hours. (My wife tried one night.) Problem is, I don't wake up refreshed. I'm not groggy (after about 9-10 hours after I take the ambien, at least) but I still don't feel like I got a good night's sleep. (I have had at least three good night's sleep in my life, so I do know what it's like.)

Doc thinks I need to have a surgery done on my soft palate. Blech. I've put it off for over a year, already. I will probably do it in the next few months, but I'm considering doing it next year when I can do it with pre-tax money.

-JEEP

Mackay · Saviour of Spiders

*posts* Does this count? It's 10:30am and I haven't slept yet. It's not really in the middle of the night anymore, but i'm still an insomniac!

Bicho the Inhaler · Daedalian Member

Mackay. Of course it counts. This post, on the other hand, shouldn't count. It's not that I'm feeling insomnia tonight, just that I feel like I haven't gotten enough out of the day. (Hence I stay awake and goof off even more.)

Mackay · Saviour of Spiders

lol. It's now 20 past 8 in the evening. It's been a looooong day/night/day. I think I'll go to bed soon.

Bicho the Inhaler · Daedalian Member

Hopefully, no insomniac posts from me tonight. I have to catch a 5:20 AM airport shuttle

Bicho the Inhaler · Daedalian Member

...so here I am, getting ready to leave at the time of night(/morning) I often go to sleep.

Mackay · Saviour of Spiders

Maybe you can sleep while you travel...?

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

referee thinks it is 1pm now

And mole claims it is 9pm. that leaves a 3am here. and with about an hour left on this gordon lightfoot cd, things are looking very grim for sleep.

Mackay · Saviour of Spiders

As for me, I got 8 hours of sleep! During the night! Will wonders never cease?!

Mog · Kupo?

Need... sleep. So tired, can't sleep... tossing and turning for hours, 3:28 now, nyergh. Tried counting sheep, counting backwards from 100, no sleep.

casinopete · Emergency Backup Antrax

I managed an hour nap last night.

Bicho the Inhaler · Daedalian Member

Beat me. I did about 2 hours (another very early flight

).

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

Ive been having entirely too much trouble sleeping as of late...but half of that is proabably because me computer is left on to render all night and i keep listening to music while trying to sleep. oh well, im glad that i dont have to work until 5pm (I worked a total of 6 morning shift...and was late for just 2 of them....) yeah, im rambling. but i dont see many reasons to stop anytime soon even though it is off topic now. off the topic of this post even....oh, its only 1:20 am right now, so this post isnt even really justified yet. did i ever mention that one time i stayed up until 6 am by drinking two glasses of mountain dew? and then i slept for 17 hours. but that was a time when i had to go to bed at a regular time...ugh@the hour school starts. i probably will never understand the idiots who make young kids get up at 8:30 to start. why cant it be like a real job where you work from...say 9-5?? another note is that i would have to drag myself out of bed at around 7:30 to catch the bus...stupid system.. ohk, enough.

from an easter egg in escape velocity...
three in the morning
obstinate bug still won't die
pass the coffee, please

Mog · Kupo?

Auuuugh, second night in a row I can't sleep. I'm usually out like a rock, I don't understand.

And yeah, I also don't understand why teenagers of all people are forced out of bed before the sun comes up to go to school. Our bus comes around 6:35 in the morning, what an awful time of day if you don't want to be up. Oh well, since it's nearly morning anyway, maybe I should just stay awake. Blast.

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

you...actually...read...that?

Mog · Kupo?

You betcha.

Bicho the Inhaler · Daedalian Member

Time for a late night BUMP!

Yeah, I cheated again. I don't really have insomnia. I'm just too lazy to go to bed, if that makes any sense at all.

Mog · Kupo?

Ugh, up again. I actually got nine good hours of sleep the other night... no more.

casinopete · Emergency Backup Antrax

I have gotten only 4 hours of sleep each of the last three nights. Since I am used to 5, this has left me groggy for much of the morning. Caffeine doesn't seem to do anything. Any helpful suggestions?

luminous · madre de succulante

poprocks and coke.

Bicho the Inhaler · Daedalian Member

A cold shower sometimes works for me...

Beartalon · 'Party line' kind of guy

What were you doing awake that required a cold shower?

wordcross · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2003 6:46 am Post subject: 33

taking a really hot shower in the middle of summer?

or not. Yep, i'm insomniac today. Tired as i'll get out but can't stop my head from muttering to itself. bah. I'm going to go lay down in my bed and pretend that it's a coffin. Being dead to the world has it's charms at a time like this...

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If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that a hostage situation?

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

im still here. why...i dont know...sigh...i played backgammon until one. and until two i worked with bryce. at three i browsed back to the gl...and three forty i am still here...not too much hope of me leaving either...oh well

LJKF:LIEMM!!!!

hmmm what a strange combination of letters...LJKF:LIEMM!!!! and now for the fun of it...retying it LJKF:LIEMM!!!! and one more time LJKF:LIEMM!!!! and no that isnt copy and pasted.

no...this doesnt work...

*yawns once*

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i think ill lay down now. really...and try....try...tr...t....to...sleep......

*another yawn*

im getting better at this part, i guess....

*my head would hit the keyboard at this point, but it kinda has a desk above it.*

empty feeling..

i drank a litre of water "today" hopefully i wont see negitive side effects from that...

So, what letter makes a taxi complain?

The Ktulu · Daedalian Member

Oddly enough, I sometimes wish I had insomnia--except when I lay in bed for two hours trying to sleep.

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

Ive been consistently staying up until 5 am but havent been the gl. painting and such.

Lepton · 1:41+ Arse Scratcher

[post content deleted because the Dutch chick outdid me again]

[This message has been edited by Lepton (edited 07-30-2003 03:38 PM).]

Zesty Spanker · Resident Polyglot

I started work last evening at 7.30pm and have just got home after finishing work at 11.30am this morning. I am wide awake but need sleep as i have to start another cover shift at 4pm today so i am having a little brandy and milk right now

IrishDrums04 · Drummer Chick

I should have the reverse of insomnia since I just came home from band camp on Thursday. But I'm going through a mini-depression so that's probably funking up my sleep schedule. Fun.

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"Yes, but why did you get rid of the rum?" - Capt. Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

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