Can you fall sleep like a baby? Or cant get sleep at all and need to submission yourself into sleep? Where is vampirERA?
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Cant sleep, can you?
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I wake up at about 2 nearly every night, watch TV for an hour or two until I can go back to sleep.
this past week i get absolutely exhausted around 9pm, fall in bed, wake up between 10:30p-12:30a, can't go back to sleep until the sun comes up, proceed to feel judged for waking up after noon. i hate it. just stay asleep you goon.
Off and on insomnia for me. Tonight I woke up every 2 hours for about 30 minutes each time. This time I just got up.
A lot of shit going on in my head so it takes a few drinks and some THC. Just to wake up many times through the night. Forget about the nightmares...
Never. I am diagnosed with a very extreme sleep disorder, and in general my body prefers to sleep during the day, for very short bursts at a time.
I additionally get sleep paralysis every single time I sleep, regardless of position or quality of sleep. It has become so frequent that it doesn't even bother me before, and I kind of enjoy the trippy visuals and physical sensation.
I additionally get sleep paralysis every single time I sleep, regardless of position or quality of sleep. It has become so frequent that it doesn't even bother me before, and I kind of enjoy the trippy visuals and physical sensation.
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Takes me a while to get to sleep so I usually watch some Star Trek on Netflix which is nice chilled out show to watch and I usually drift off after an episode or two.
My sleep schedule has been shit ever since the lockdown started. Been mostly falling asleep around 5 or 6 am.
The past few days I've gone to bed between 11 pm and 1 am, but I wake up around now and can't fall back asleep until 5 or so.
The past few days I've gone to bed between 11 pm and 1 am, but I wake up around now and can't fall back asleep until 5 or so.
Depends on a lot of things. This whole coronavirus situation had a massive negative effect on my sleep, but I've been forcing myself into a routine of 20-30min walk outside every night between 9pm and 10pm, in bed by 11pm and phone off by 11:15, after which I read for 30-45 minutes. Been sleeping fine ever since I started a week or so ago, in fact I feel like I fall asleep faster than usual.
I'm getting old now, so I most nights i go to bed at 11pm and am asleep before 12 at least (I try not to look at the clock).
Last time I really had trouble sleeping was entirely my own fault. I decided to buy Ghost Recon: Breakpoint at 10:30pm and ended up playing it till 1am - and completely sucked at it!
So I went to bed super late and super-frustrated at being KIA a dozen times trying to hijack a single truck!
Last time I really had trouble sleeping was entirely my own fault. I decided to buy Ghost Recon: Breakpoint at 10:30pm and ended up playing it till 1am - and completely sucked at it!
So I went to bed super late and super-frustrated at being KIA a dozen times trying to hijack a single truck!
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Yup. I used to have huge problems getting my brain to turn off, but now I pretty much just hit the pillow and it's nigh nigh.
Maybe it's mid-life show-brain. I'll take it.
Maybe it's mid-life show-brain. I'll take it.
I was completely drained after 1AM, then my girlfriend asked me if I was okay with a quick call that turned into a three hour chat. Now I'm sitting here at 5:30AM watching crime/creepypasta videos in YouTube and wondering if I should keep going with the MK11 story mode.
I usually fall asleep fast, but I can't help but think "I can do more stuff before going to bed".
I usually fall asleep fast, but I can't help but think "I can do more stuff before going to bed".
When i was young it would take me up to an hour or two to get asleep every night, now it's like... ten minutes i think.
Very lucky
Very lucky
Not tonight. The best I got was a nap. Got some rodents in the attic space scrabbling up something fierce. Idle worry does the rest.
I am working night shift right now.
I sleep like shit during the day, especially as the season shifts and I lag behind on adjusting the climate control in my house to compensate for the change in hot/cold. Experiencing that right now where I keep waking up due to being too hot from the pretty hot spring weather my region is experiencing... Sleep like an absolute baby when it rains, though.
I sleep like shit during the day, especially as the season shifts and I lag behind on adjusting the climate control in my house to compensate for the change in hot/cold. Experiencing that right now where I keep waking up due to being too hot from the pretty hot spring weather my region is experiencing... Sleep like an absolute baby when it rains, though.
I usually fall asleep no problem, but frequently wake up between 2-4AM and have trouble getting back to sleep. I heard a sleep specialist on NPR the other day talking about how if you wake up in the middle of the night and feel like you won't be able to get back to sleep, you should get up and do something else until you feel tired, and that you should NOT just lie in bed unable to sleep. They said something to the effect of, "You wouldn't just sit at your dining room table waiting to get hungry, so why would you just lie in bed until you get sleepy?" When I woke up at 3AM last night feeling wide awake, I thought of that and went downstairs to read for about half an hour. Felt myself getting sleepy, so I went to bed and I was out in just a couple minutes.
I've been getting a lot better at just being able to fall asleep while exhausted without my mind playing tricks. I think this lockdown and more free time has helped that a ton.
I've never been able to have naps though. There's absolutely no way I can sleep unless I'm about to knock out anyway. This does mean that my schedule is all over the place and has been alternating for the last decade, but at least I haven't felt like my mind was swimming in a river of thoughts that keep me up for hours in bed.
I've never been able to have naps though. There's absolutely no way I can sleep unless I'm about to knock out anyway. This does mean that my schedule is all over the place and has been alternating for the last decade, but at least I haven't felt like my mind was swimming in a river of thoughts that keep me up for hours in bed.
How do you deal with it? I also have sleel paralysis, but mostly when I take a nap, or fall asleep unwillingly.
First time I couldn't wake up for a long time, but what I do now is start breathing harder every "exhale", and then when the air reacts with my nose or mouth slowly rock back and forward until I snap out of it
When my room is nice and cold, I sleep like a baby. Second it's uncomfortable (to me it's anything over 21C), I have trouble getting to sleep. If it gets hotter and I wake up during the night, I can go back to sleep no problem. But the initial sleep is hard to get to if it's not cool-ish in my room.
So my best sleep periods are from Late september til Late April. If we're lucky like we were this year, it even went through the month of may with nice 0C nights that gave a nice breeze in my house. If we have a bad year like we have sometimes, with huge sunny days throughout april with high 10s or low 20s, it can get tricky quick and the AC has to be installed sooner.
So my best sleep periods are from Late september til Late April. If we're lucky like we were this year, it even went through the month of may with nice 0C nights that gave a nice breeze in my house. If we have a bad year like we have sometimes, with huge sunny days throughout april with high 10s or low 20s, it can get tricky quick and the AC has to be installed sooner.
My husband will wake me up if he notices me breathing quickly. But aside from that, I've slowly begun to stop being bothered by it. I've had it for so long, and so frequently throughout my life that it's become something I regularly handle.
Another thing that helped me cope was, weirdly, the fact that I got it very frequently while napping in a nap room at work. I'd sit in a chair, in a well lit room, and go to nap, and end up with sleep paralysis every time. Being in a tightly contained room, that was well lit, that I could see every inch of, helped me realize that it wasn't that scary and was just me being in a weird and different kind of sleep.
At one point, later on, I watched an entire episode of Preacher in sleep paralysis, lol. I just deal with it at this point, I guess is what I'm saying.
Wow my sleep paralysis must be different because I can't open my eyes, so I don't see anything regardless. But yeah, I try not to take naps because I almost always get them napping. And now I'm much better at dealing with them than 25y ago when it started, for example
What are the pros and cons of this? Are you able to engage with your hobbies more and studies / work? Or do you have a tired feeling all the time?
I don't really know how to conceptualize this in the sense of pros or cons, it just is the way I live?
If I were to break it down, I am tired a lot (I am narcoleptic, so it comes with the territory), and am suddenly hit with bursts of extreme fatigue where I just basically have to nap or chill out. On the other hand, I guess I spend a lot more time than most people consuming media because I'm very frequently awake at times when most other people aren't. I mean, I've beaten 33 games so far this year and kept up on TV and movies and books, so. My life is pretty average compared to my friends and coworkers, the major difference being that I nap during the work day when I can get time away and eat at really odd times compared to other people.
I don't fall asleep randomly while doing things like some other people with more extreme narcolepsy, but I get fatigue attacks and randomized weakness, sleep paralysis and fragmented sleep/insomnia punctuated with random bursts of extremely prolonged sleep, though rare. Like once a month I'll sleep 18 hours on a weekend day, without trying to.
I feel bad because this isn't really a question I feel like I can answer since it's just like, how I live my life. It's not really a conscious choice.
It's hard keeping a good sleep schedule. Lord knows I can't keep one. I have no trouble actually sleeping once I'm out (you could drop a bomb out my window and I wouldn't even notice), but getting there is often hard.
But it's really important for your health. Lack of sleep kills you, both figuratively and literally. One of the most important factors in stress and aging. I'm in my mid 20s and I already look like I'm over 30, and a big part of that is probably my unhealthy sleeping habits.
The most important thing for me is to avoid looking at bright screens before I go to bed. No internet, no games, no TV, no work. Just a book (Kindle works too if you use one).
Also, exercise. It's so much easier to go to sleep when you spend a bunch of excess energy at least once a day. Cardio, weights, both, doesn't matter, just get it out of your system.
But it's really important for your health. Lack of sleep kills you, both figuratively and literally. One of the most important factors in stress and aging. I'm in my mid 20s and I already look like I'm over 30, and a big part of that is probably my unhealthy sleeping habits.
The most important thing for me is to avoid looking at bright screens before I go to bed. No internet, no games, no TV, no work. Just a book (Kindle works too if you use one).
Also, exercise. It's so much easier to go to sleep when you spend a bunch of excess energy at least once a day. Cardio, weights, both, doesn't matter, just get it out of your system.
Clowns will eat you?
In all seriousness my problem with not being able to sleep is I can't turn off my mind's addiction to intellectual stimulation. It always wants to learn and read/watch/listen to in-depth content about Gaming, Computing, Science, the Humanities, Football, you name it.
Then I justify the sleep sacrifice to myself because it's actually good wholesome content, not just mindless browsing or fast food consumption of shlock.
Beaten like a clown.
In all seriousness my problem with not being able to sleep is I can't turn off my mind's addiction to intellectual stimulation. It always wants to learn and read/watch/listen to in-depth content about Gaming, Computing, Science, the Humanities, Football, you name it.
Then I justify the sleep sacrifice to myself because it's actually good wholesome content, not just mindless browsing or fast food consumption of shlock.
