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Just a moan :)
Published on October 18, 2004 By Sally jacobs In Health & Medicine
I think I will be ready to kill someone pretty soon. I'm reaching boiling point. I went through a phase not long ago of having a really poor sleeping pattern. I was going to be late and getting up far to early and I couldn't stop it. If I went to bed earlier I would just lie in bed wide awake. Unable to sleep, and well waking up early, you can't realy control that can you? Then it seemed to pass. I started getting relatively good nights sleep. Going to bed at a reasonable time, and waking up at a reasonable time. I don't know how or when it happened, but it did. I was so pleased, for about six weeks I enjoyed good nights sleep. I have never being the best of sleepers. So I was really pleased with this. Then in the last week my sleeping has gone insane again. So insane I'm actually missing the time where my only problem was not being tired early on. Now I still get tired at a reasonable time. I go to bed like a good girl, and then it starts. Do you ever have them nights sleep where you are fully aware of everything that is going on around you, but you think you're asleep? Then when you wake up in the morning, you don't know if you actually got any sleep or not? That is what my sleep has turned into. Just one long pain in the ass. Of drifting in and out of the land of nod. With odd dreams that freak me out. I don't like it, and it's really frustrating me. I feel like I'm in a coma for the rest of the day, and the same pattern happens again.

I don't know what it is. I've looked up sleep deprivation and sleep problems on the net and they all seem to suggest that they stem from something else. Other problems. Maybe I just have things on my mind and need to chill out a bit. The lack of sleep is turning me into a monster though. I'm being horrible and abrupt to people, and a general nightmare to be around. I really hope it calms down a bit. If it doesn't I think I will go and see my doctor, though I really don't want to take sleeping tablets. There's something unnatural about them. I want a nice natural sleep! If I had a nap now, I would sleep perfectly. I'm not going to though, in hope I will have a nice full nights sleep tonight!

Comments
on Oct 18, 2004
You've just described my entire, life-long sleep existence.

Sucks, huh?

Clearly you have been reading too many of my comments and it has affected your mind. Doctor's are currently working on an all purpose Nash-purge. It's prune based. Hang on till help arrives.

on Oct 18, 2004
Hey babe!

I'm sorry to hear that the Sandman's forgotten your address I wish I could offer some advice but I just don't know. Warm milk? More exercise (but not close to bedtime)? A bedtime ritual (hey - it works for children)? I just don't know.

You take care of yourself. Hopefully sleep will come back and be your friend soon!

Suz xxx
on Oct 18, 2004
Clearly you have been reading too many of my comments and it has affected your mind. Doctor's are currently working on an all purpose Nash-purge. It's prune based. Hang on till help arrives.


...now I have someone to blame! it realy does suck!

Warm milk? More exercise (but not close to bedtime)? A bedtime ritual (hey - it works for children)? I just don't know.


I hate milk...I already go gym most days....maybe a bed time ritual would be good. I've tried starting to read before bedtime. It's not helping though. Thanks for your support sweety xxx
on Oct 18, 2004
I have always been a good sleeper. Somewhat paradoxically, the only time I have any real trouble falling asleep is when I am sleep-deprived. (And even then, it's usually just pointless worrying about "will I be able to get enough sleep?" that keeps me up a few extra minutes.)
Anyway, a couple of the things that I do to get to sleep when I'm not feeling like I'm just going to drop right off are:

1) relax the entire body. Start at the toes, clench them, and then un-clench them. Then the calves, et cetera. Work your way up your entire body until you have clenched and unclenched every muscle you can find.
2) breathe. Take slow, even breaths. Not too deep, not too shallow, just nice and steady.
3) clear your mind. Focus on thinking NOTHING. Picture a completely empty void and keep on it. When you find an object intruding on your void, shove it away.

Eventually you may realize that you're thinking something and have little to no control over it, but that should be because you're dreaming.
on Oct 20, 2004
clear your mind. Focus on thinking NOTHING. Picture a completely empty void and keep on it. When you find an object intruding on your void, shove it away.


That is my biggest problem. At night I just lie awake and think about things. Go over things in my head, and that's what keeps me awake mostly. I can't help it though. I'm such a worrier! Thanks for the advice though!
on Oct 20, 2004
Yeah, it can take a fair bit of mental discipline to really pick one thing (namely, nothingness) and focus exclusively on it. It will definitely help you bore yourself to sleep, though.
on Oct 21, 2004
It will definitely help you bore yourself to sleep, though


I've tried counting sheep, but I end up naming them and having them different colours *sigh*
on Oct 21, 2004
Chamomile tea, Sal. If you can't drink milk ....there's some help. (there's no caffiene in it) The stretching and relaxing citahellion described also works a treat. Really.

Heh, I used to have a mate as a kid who could not sleep until he had repeatedly slammed his head into the pillow several hundred times. (yeah, weird kid!)

Of course, long hours at the computer won't help your cause much. Try to set yourself a timeframe to work within when you are using the comp, and stick with it. And don't drink too much coffee late in the day, and especially not at night. Even standard tea or chocolate has caffiene too, so be careful how much you have.

Sometimes being overtired will have an adverse affect on sleep patterns too.

Go and see a herbalist (a reputable one...there's lotsa shonkies) and see what they can offer. Nature provides so many wonderful things.

The hours I work always leaves me in an overtired state, but with the right excercise and herbs I find I can manage quite well.

Good luck hon.
on Oct 26, 2004
I am no doctor to suggest you any therapy from your sleep disorder. You may certainly have pored through the net trying to find for a cause. But in india we try meditation, its like concentrating on the void, like thinking of zero and really concentrating on it. Try meditation or much better YOGA. You may find lots of useful information in the net about YOGA, or you may simply enrol for one if there is one nearby where you live. Well here is wishing you a cure from your nightmares.
on Oct 26, 2004
I've tried counting sheep, but I end up naming them and having them different colours *sigh*

! You're so adorable!

I find that most of the time I wont go to sleep till I'm almost exhausted and by then it's really late and I cant sleep enough to feel refreshed in the morning, or I sleep even less because I'm worried I'll over-sleep my alarm....

I guess that's why weekends were invented...

Gene: Gotta love those prune-based remedies!
on Oct 27, 2004
Heh, I used to have a mate as a kid who could not sleep until he had repeatedly slammed his head into the pillow several hundred times


...When I was a kid I couldn't have a bath without blinking really hard ten times...don't ask I can't explain it to this day!

Try to set yourself a timeframe to work within when you are using the comp,


Yeah I do try and read, and do chilled out things. It doesn't always workout that way though!


Go and see a herbalist (a reputable one...there's lotsa shonkies) and see what they can offer. Nature provides so many wonderful things.


I might just do that. I can't bring myself to take sleeping tablets or anything!

You may find lots of useful information in the net about YOGA, or you may simply enrol for one if there is one nearby where you live. Well here is wishing you a cure from your nightmares.


Thankyou . Yoga is a good idea, and is something I've always wanted to try. So why not??

You're so adorable


*blushes*

I find that most of the time I wont go to sleep till I'm almost exhausted and by then it's really late and I cant sleep enough to feel refreshed in the morning, or I sleep even less because I'm worried I'll over-sleep my alarm....


I think you're a worse sleeper than me Wayne, and that's saying something!

Thanks for all the comments and advice guys xxx