How Did You Sleep Last Night?

[goingonhope]

Crappy, but I did finally sleep and oh what a relief.

 

[Ayasha]

I slept all night long without waking up (except when my alarm went off), I even had a dream--and not the scary or suspenseful kind that typically plague my sleep.

 

[Red Feather]

I had a nightmare last night. I forgot what it was about. It was just really frightening.

 

[Changing4Best]

Twice in the last two nights I've been awoken by my noisy neighbors upstairs when their teenage daughter has run across the floor in bare feet. I've already spoken to them about noise and that the floor is "paper thin" and such. If anything, the noise has gotten WORSE since I complained and I am quite certain that the teenager is doing some of these things on purpose because she resents having to watch her baby cousin who I already compained about. He crawls, and each time his knees hit the floor, it sounds like a loud drum! They promised to try to handle that, which for the most part they have, but now the teenager is taking out her angst on ME, because she probably is the one responsible for watching him!

Any suggestions? I've run out of options to complain, I think, because that will just prompt her to do this more. Oh! And I cannot wear ear plugs, because I tend to get infections in my ears...

I did think of trying to buy her a Christmas present, but I am not sure how well this will go over either. Your thoughts??

PS. I wrote this poem on my feelings about all this, I hope it is OK to post it with this note, since it realtes to it. I'd reather post it here than in the poetry section:

QUIET
Quiet is the sound,
that silence makes,
soft as a summer rain,
on a windless day.
Quiet is the feeling,
of peace in the air,
hugging you dearly,
whispering softly.
Quiet is what I crave,
dear to my heart,
loved by my soul,
quiet, come close!
--
skb

 

[KP the nut]

I had a rough night lots of waking between horrid nightmares. It has left me feeling yuck today.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I slept good but I had a bad nightmare of bad themes. Of not hanging out with the popular kids at college and them getting angry at me and wanting to beat me up. One girl kept coming to me with a knife and cutting my arm in the same place. I could not see how big the wound was and it did not hurt me. I went to another place to sit down and I was welcomed by the unpopular kids who said I could have hung out with the popular kids. i was different from the popular kids and I thought they were mean and cruel. They said they were going to beat me to a pulp. I was very afraid.

Then I tried to find a way home and I was lost in the college and I thought I was trapped there. I had no money for food and I was alone and without a friend. It was a terrible nightmare, and I do not know what it means.

I was rejected and I was welcomed. Maybe that fits with what is going on in my life today and the pain of being hated and rejected is a deep unhealed wound.

 

[Ayasha]

I did think of trying to buy her a Christmas present, but I am not sure how well this will go over either. Your thoughts??

I don't know, it might work. People tend to be more considerate when they actually know the person better. I'm not saying it would surely work but it might be worth trying. :)

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I have to start going to bed early. I have been staying up until three or four o clock and going to sleep. I wake up so tired. I have just felt like staying up that late. I sleep good when I sleep. I like having the alone time to myself. I think that is why I have been doing it.

 

[Changing4Best]

I like having the alone time to myself. I think that is why I have been doing it.

I found some "Noise Cancelling Headphones" that really help in giving me some alone time, even right around others. They cut out something like 90-95 % of the noises in the environment and when folks see you wearing them they tend not to bother you, because they know you are "busy" listening to something. Two companies make them that I know of, BOSE and Sony. The ones by Sony are MUCH less expensive. However, the BOSE ones are even used by AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS, they work that well! And you KNOW they need to focus on what they are doing, while having QUIET, though there will be noises and voices right next to them!!!

 

[Ice_Fire]

Had a rubbish night last night. Lots of nightmares. Feel more tired now than I did before I went to bed.

 

[goingonhope]

I had a wonderful night's sleep. What a gift. I slept restfully from about 8:30 pm straight on through for the next 10 hrs.

 

[Changing4Best]

I slept restfully from about 8:30 pm straight on through for the next 10 hrs.

I often sleep for more than the "prescibed" 8 hours too. I guess to make up for all the nights I don't or can't sleep at least 8 hours!