The Sleep Thread

[Abstract]

Thought this may be helpful for some of us. Including me - since it is now 7.30 am . Accountability, connection, humour? Whatever is useful.

Note to self - go to sleep.

 

[Teasel]

I've been chasing a good sleep pattern in forever. My favourite is when I'm able to wake up in the early hours, because then I very occasionally actually feel tired and just go to sleep at night. It's fricking amazing.

Currently not in that pattern

 

[Captain Barnacles]

I went to sleep at 0200 again last night. I got a nice lie in until 0700 for a change, though.

 

[arfie]

thank god for naps

 

[Abstract]

thank god for naps

Indeed.

 

[Abstract]

3.33 and counting. Thumps self over head.

 

[Teasel]

I did better with the sleep hygiene today. Not posed to be on mephone tho eh. Finger's crossed I get to sleep in the next few hours

 

[Captain Barnacles]

0111.

The city centre is dead. I'm in the mood to party until I fall down, but the people I was with called Endex at 2300.

When did they all get old?

 

[Mach123]

I finally slept last night. My wife and I are in our sixties and we aren’t sleeping anymore. It’s become a chronic lament. Both of us have health issues that keep us getting up and down all night it’s really miserable. We never feel well or rested. This adds to the malaise. Grouchy, irritable etc. welcome to your golden years.

I slept last night after about 4 really bad nights on a row. I only got up once in a total of nine hours. I thought maybe at 5 am I’d sleep some more but I’m up and having coffee. What a difference.

 

[Roland]

Sleep is OOF, I actually keep a fairly regular schedule. Baby goes down at 10/10:30, husband and I go down at 11:00/11:30. I sleep in as long as I can, work days I have to wake up just before 8am. But you know what I hate? The occasional bout of insomnia, waking up many times through the night, or flashbacks all night, sometimes so bad I can't do what I planned to do the next day because I will be a zombie, and how there's still a stigma against needing to sleep in or sleeping poorly at night. As if I could help it? Then people's advice to have a routine, regular schedule, whatever the f*ck, it's like thank you, next time I'll just tell my flashback it's bedtime and I'll be fine. If I have to stay home from something to sleep, I'll just tell people I don't feel well, because they understand being sick better than sleep issues.

 

[Tanishq]

I sleep a lot. More than 8 hrs.

 

[Friday]

The MOMENT I tell my doc I’m sleeping really well? Cue 2 weeks of catnaps & nightmares.

Snort. Because, of course.

It’s less that I was tempting fate, and more that it makes me feel like a liar???

But I’m also not working/in school, nor responsible for kids or anyone else, (nor on vacation, eyes deep in plans & projects, etc.)… so sleeping 10-20minutes 5 or 6 times a day? Or 90 minutes every other day? Isn’t something that’s making life hard. It’s not interfering with my life (I have no life, atm!), so it’s also the eeeeeasiest autumn-insomnia-jag I’ve ever had. Which is kind of cracking me up. How much sleeping badly is an issue when life is GOOD, and how much of a “Shrug” it is, when life isn’t! One of those, it could be worse! I could have shit going on that sleeping badly is f*cking up! Silver linings, I suppose.