chajonbubble 9:09 Sun Jan 17
Insomnia
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Go to bed at 1am. Wake up at 3am. Up at 5am. Sometimes sleep will not come. Then look and feel like shit all day. Anyone else suffer from an inability to sleep? Bloody annoying it is at times.,
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madeeasy
4:43 Mon Jan 18
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I used to have this problem. I think a lot of it was stress related.
I met someone who studied sleep with a leading professor at Sheffield university and she recommended only sleeping in 4 hour blocks.
So first few nights i would set my alarm for 4 hours after i would go to sleep, or thought i would go off, and then when the alarm went off 4 hours later i got up.
I did this for about a week and was then really tired come the next night. then when i went to sleep i set an alarm for 8 hours time.
then went 5 nights with 4 hours etc.
I can now on rare occasions sleep for 12 hours if i have had a busy week, and always stick to this pattern pretty much.
I think a lot of it is physcological and i wanted to believe this would work for me and it did.
maybe worth a try anyway.
fwiw i now sleep for 8 hours about 5 nights a week and 4 hours the other 2.
btw never sleep for 5 or 6 or 7 hours, only in 4 hour blocks. and dont have your phone or ipad anywhere near you to check the time, just trust the alarm.
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FOMB
4:42 Mon Jan 18
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Didn't read any of the thread, just opened it and posted the joke.
Not that I give a fuck
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Far Cough
4:39 Mon Jan 18
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Kaka, that's because you drink yourself into a coma every night in Maguires
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BetterthanKaka
4:35 Mon Jan 18
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I have never struggled to sleep. Ever.
HTH
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Marston Hammer
4:18 Mon Jan 18
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FOMB 3:44 Mon Jan 18
Fair play to you, you added on another two sleeps to my not-so-original joke. That makes it 20% funnier.
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Mr Polite
3:51 Mon Jan 18
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That's brilliant FOMB
Not as good as the very first reply to this thread but on an Arsenal singing the Payet song it's brilliant
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FOMB
3:44 Mon Jan 18
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You insomniacs need to cheer up a bit.
Just think, only 12 sleeps till Christmas.
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Pancho
3:39 Mon Jan 18
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Always struggled with it and got really bad a few years back. Had a few months of surreal days where I wasn't sure where I was.
Eventually passed and they put it down to stress. Avoided the super strength sleeping pills they dished out.
It's an absolute cunt but I do prefer being up during the night - should have been a cab driver. Much prefer when there is less cunts around outside and everything is calmer.
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JONESY
3:37 Mon Jan 18
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I get off to sleep easily, but wake up 10+ times on a good night and 20+ times on a bad night.
then there are the nights when I wake up at 2 or 3 and just don't get back to sleep. luckily these are rarer.
just read honest hammer's post and have ordered some ZMA.
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Mr Polite
3:33 Mon Jan 18
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Why don't you try reading Dapablo's post.
every time I bother too (very rare) I nod right off before getting to the end
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Dapablo
3:31 Mon Jan 18
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You have issues, you need to realise what they are.
Up at 4 myself last but I know why.
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joe royal
3:28 Mon Jan 18
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If you can't sleep become a rock and roll truck driver , in no time you will be able to sleep on a clothes line.
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Honest Hammer
1:22 Mon Jan 18
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ZMA was brilliant for this, if you fall asleep on a limb though, don't expect to be able to feel it the next day.
It doesn't make you fall asleep, but when you are, you're out.
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Mike Oxsaw
12:58 Mon Jan 18
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Coffee 12:35 Mon Jan 18
Let soap sew.
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Darby_
12:54 Mon Jan 18
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I think that's partly why I like light-hearted audiobooks. You're laying there listening rather than thinking about things.
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Steve the Hammer
12:49 Mon Jan 18
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Agree Mike. Daft little thoughts like that can add up and take their toll... even if you don't realise it. Then when you finally lay down to sleep, that is when your mind would start to run through them thoughts, or at least that's what I was doing anyway.
A month of good sleep now and I feel so much better for it. Makes such a difference.
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Coffee
12:35 Mon Jan 18
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Mike Oxsaw 12:32 Mon Jan 18
So chatting through the washing powder issue made it Vanish?
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Mike Oxsaw
12:32 Mon Jan 18
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What about if you keep dreaming you can't get to sleep?
You end up with a raring- to-go, bring-on-the-day body and a fucked-up mind.
Knew a woman who had sleep issues. Bought a really difficult jigsaw and we spend an hour or two each night working on it before retiring.
Turned out that it wasn't the jigsaw that solved it but the off-hand general chit-chat we exchanged whilst doing it - in amongst that was stuff she just needed to bounce off someone.
It wasn't really even that serious; most of it general mundane household shit (like "should I change my brand of washing powder?") that many people don't give a second thought to, but it was still an unanswered question that played on her mind.
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Cheezey Bell-End
12:09 Mon Jan 18
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Apparently it's normal to wake up during the night. Some people get up and do stuff.
I think it's the going to bed at 1am that is the problem if you know you'll be getting up at 5.
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Steve the Hammer
12:06 Mon Jan 18
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I feel your pain on this. I'm normally a terrible sleeper but have been really good for the last month or so now.
My main thing was not being able to switch my mind off. I would lay there thinking about absolutely everything, whether it was work, a song stuck in my head, how long it takes to make an episode of the Simpson, how I can make an extra £500 a month, West Ham results... etc. It really could be anything.
Two things I've been trying to do lately seem to be working for me.
1. Sort out all the little things that annoy me in the house or unfinished jobs. It took me bloody ages to finish my bathroom off, also had a mountain of paper work to sort through. All little things like that can cause some kind of stress, as someone else mentioned, it can go under the radar.
2. I make sure I tire my mind out during the day. That might be from reading non-fiction (although never before bed), writing or doing something creative, solving crosswords or soduko puzzles.
Just anything to get the brain working during the day.
Other things that help are going to bed early and getting up early, exercise, dark room etc.
Seems to be working for me. Lack of sleep is an absolute nightmare... or not, as it were.
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Mike Oxsaw
7:01 Sun Jan 17
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subcutaneous 2:30 Sun Jan 17
That's more a work-around than a solution though (but at least she gets a modicum of relief, so I'm not totally panning it).
I did suggest earlier that stress could be an issue is insomnia and that it reveals itself in many forms. Maybe something's been chewing away at her sub-consciousness for years (so long that she may not even be aware it's not natural - and it's certainly no fault of hers).
Maybe a chat will weedle it out of her - if it is stress related. I'm NOT suggesting therapy, just more conversation (as opposed to, say TV or internet leisure time) - plus a bit of Miss Marple on your part.
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