Poll Sleeping Patterns

[falling_wave]

How does sleep affect you?

 

[J_trustno1]

I am on several supplements and two medicines which help me to sleep. However, if i miss out one pill or supplement my sleep is disturbed. This happened when I ran out of medicine which is actually shipped from US. With depression, my mind actually freezes or worries too much to the point that I get very overwhelmed and more upset. When I don't sleep my mood is very cranky the next day, I get very irritated at little things, poor concentration and life feels too long.

 

[anthony]

I sleep like a log nowadays... until wakey time in the morning.

 

[Friday]

I could click all of these... As over 15 some odd years there have been a lot of patterns.

When I'm doing well, I tend to stay up late & get up early. Takes at least an hour to fall asleep, but that's always been true (if I don't count waking sleep / able to fall half asleep anywhere / any time). If I'm doing waking sleep, I can go weeks without true sleep, but will need to crash hard for a few days at the end of it.

When I'm doing badly, my sleep is all over the map. I can sleep for weeks, only waking once every 20 hours or so to eat/pee and go right back to sleep. Turn around and only sleep for 2-3 hours once or twice a week. Or be doing the waking-sleep thing. Or be sleeping 7 hours every 36. Or 12 every 36. It can be dreamless or full of nightmares. I've taken meds, not taken meds. Dozens of patterns. Only Consistant thing when I'm doing badly is that the pattern is subject to change.

Sleep is one of those things that I'm very protective of, but not super freaked out by. Meaning, when I'm doing well, I have a whole lot of safety nets (exercise, meds, babysitting, etc.) set up that I have to crash through before my sleep can go sideways. But when it does go sideways (I'm in a rough patch)? Or things have to change? (Like doing hourly vitals, or sleeping in shifts). No worries. I know I can deal.

 

[Seagreen]

I usually can't sleep until after midnight. Then wake at 6am. I'm also getting up every hour or 2 to feed my baby. I use to be awake due to anxiety but once the anxiety started to wear off it was replaced with over active brain. I read a lot at night to deal with the stimulation and have been researching a lot. I'm seriously considering doing a degree and studying at night but not sure I could handle the commitment.

 

[Melody coates]

i've been waking up at 2 AM every morning lately

 

[Nam]

When well, I get about 8-10 hours of sleep and it's solid. But lately, I've been sleeping more sporadically. My mind races a bit before bed and the silence is really loud. There's a loud hum or it sounds like a crowd of people. I know that I'm better when I go to bed early and wake up early. But this doesn't allow me as much alone time. Lately, Hubs gets up with the kids and take them to school while I sleep in. Then we all go to bed late, around one in the morning. I have no idea how hubs does it on 5-6 hours of sleep.

We were talking about super hero powers once. Like, if you could only have one, what would it be? For my hubs it was the ability to fly. For me, I didn't have a single one that most would identify as a super hero power. I just wanted to sleep less but still feel rested. I feel like my whole life is in bed.

 

[Beachlife09]

Nightmares every night. Need I say more?

 

[sun seeker]

There's a choice I don't see in the poll. I sleep pretty well as long as my life is unstressful to the point of boring. As soon as anything is overstimulating me though, I can't sleep. Especially if I know I have to get up early the next day, I can't fall asleep, sometimes at all. It doesn't sound serious but it's consistent enough that it keeps me from taking any job that involves getting up early or making appointments before noon.

 

[sun seeker]

Oh and I forgot to say, if there is anyone else in the house with me, I can't fall asleep until they do.

 

[Changing4Best]

This morning I overslept. I could hardly even remember getting up to turn off my alarm. I really had to search for the memory. I think I did it when I was half asleep. I was, however, aware enough to realize that if I did not get up to turn it off, that it would ring again in a few minutes and then again and again, for half an hour. I hated that I even got up to turn it off, as the whole purpose of the repeat ringings is to overcome my habit of oversleeping sometimes. I have to go to bed early and wake up early too, in order to deal with this if it does happen. I dislike having to do that, but I know no other way.

Some nights I wake up after my sleep medicine wears off and then I have trouble getting back to sleep. I classify this as a type of insomnia, as it tends to cause me not to get enough sleep.

I am going through a medicine change, tapering off one med that helps me to sleep and starting another one that does that too. Both medicines also help control and overcome restless leg syndrome (RLS) so that I can at least sleep without that keeping me awake. I am guessing that the combination of the two meds might be causing the oversleeping, so I have hope that it will all balance out in the long run.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

I checked all but two. My sleep is all over the place, my patterns are all over the place.