How Did You Sleep Last Night?

[ms spock]

It really is the only way to go @JadesJewel because if I get angry or annoyed it just makes the whole thing more stressful than they need to be, mostly I can do it, sometimes I slip a bit.

 

[Deleted member 37085]

Yep, me as well...certainly need to just coast and incorporate radical acceptance now.

 

[Deleted member 8714]

Not too well last night because of an allergy with systemic reaction. Finally took some dye-free Benadryl and will try to sleep some. Wednesday I had a nightmare or more like morning-mare which stemmed from watching Criminal Minds and seeing a serial killer carve a pentagram into the chest of his victim. Also the throat was slit. UGH! Two main triggers: death and knives.

 

[Deleted member 28403]

Still sleeping badly...

 

[Gadgie]

For the first night in ages I managed to get more sleep than I normally have. I felt the difference as soon as I woks up, it was great feeling to have.

Yes, I was up a few times to go for a pee, as usual, but there must have been more time in between them, Mind you I’m not complaining!

 

[Lionheart]

Insomnia again. I managed to sleep for 2 hours and then could not get back to sleep. I ran out of dry mouth spray so that keeps waking me up and I can't seem to sleep again even after several attempts. :confused:

I have trazadone I can take but I really hate the morning hangover it leaves me with and I have an early appointment with the psychiatrist for a med check.

Plus I am living with my niece and her man for the month and they desperately need to invest in some cough syrup, as their loud, irritating, and incessant coughing is driving me up the wall. Grrrrrr :banghead:

 

[Deleted member 28403]

Woke up on my own after 5 hours, which wierd

 

[New]

I didn’t.

 

[AnotherUser]

Unusually bad night. In this period I usually sleep okay, and am in a situation where getting enough time for good sleep is not a problem.

But I have now had dreams/nightmares two nights running where I met a woman in whom I was romantically interested and it concluded by her telling me she had a boyfriend. The first night it was an old love of ten years ago, who I have not seen since then; last night's dream was a random stranger who asked me directions, and I ended up walking with her.

My condition has indeed made relationships generally short-lived in my life (not longer than three years), and the last three years I have been so bad with it as not to be able to find someone new.

However this last week has been a much better time, when I have committed to therapy, having finally accepted my T's trauma diagnosis, and have begun to work on the process. So I have accepted that there is no external situation (a 'right' job/partner/domicile) that will be 'the answer'; and that I will not be 'cured' but have the capability to improve a lot; and that no-one I could meet now, romantically, would be the answer, because I have work to do first.

But I think my old tendencies are fighting me on this.

 

[Lionheart]

Nightmare about dangling precariously above a yawning abyss. Woke up in a cold sweat.

 

[barefoot]

Felt really wired last night. Did breathing exercises before bed and then plugged into sleep meditation app. Felt like I was in weird limbo state between sleeping and waking for hours - kept jumping and flinching and yelping. Don’t feel anything close to rested this morning.
A groggy start to the day.

 

[whiteraven]

I didn't. I used to sleep sooo well, then a couple or so weeks ago I started having very vivid dreams and a nightmare or two, then the last couple of nights no sleep at all. :-(