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40+ Hours awake? (how long have you stayed up at one time?)
Snuffletrout:
Sleep for me is a game of totals.
I can be awake and asleep for long periods of time. I do suffer insomnia when I'm stressed sometimes (really used to piss me off right before big tests at school) where Ill go to bed as normal but I just cannot sleep. Doesn't matter what I do. Thats something Ive struggled with since I was a kid. Luckily for me Ive also learned to live with it. So if I dont get to sleep for a full night I'm still fully able to go to work as normal. It usually ends up like this: Wake up at 8am, go to work, dont get to sleep at night, back to work, try to sleep -no luck, go to work, collapse when I come home.
Since I work for 3 days/week that's fine. The rest of the week I spend sleeping 10-12 hrs a day. As long as Im not in a insomnia period I can fall asleep anywhere and anytime if I want to. That's a gene trait my family is notorious for. In school, I fell asleep on my desk. The teacher asked for my name (to note down) and as soon as she heard my last name she said "Ah, that explains it" and dropped the case.
raoullefere:
I have that problem, too. It never fails, and I've something important to do the next day, that sleep won't come. I have discovered a slight workaround, though. In such situations, I do have a solution, though. First, I set my alarm rather early. Then, when, at any time the evening or night before, I feel sleepy, I immediately lay down and try to let it come. Odds are I won't sleep until morning, but I will get some rest, which is more than I could accomplish the other way 'round. Usually I wind up sleeping a few hours and then wake up and can do all those things I might need to with time to spare, having still gotten some sleep in the last 24. And if by weird chance I do slumber on, the alarm is set early enough to compensate at least somewhat.
Note: if you've a SO, it's a good idea to try not to share her (his, what have you) bed at such times, for both your sakes. Guest bedrooms, couches, etc. are the thing.
Akima:
--- Quote from: raoullefere on 04 Nov 2010, 08:04 ---I have that problem, too. It never fails, and I've something important to do the next day, that sleep won't come.
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I have found that listening to "talking books" after going to bed is the answer to worry-insomnia. Music doesn't do it, but listening to a story pulls my mind away from the hamster-wheel and I hardly ever stay awake long enough to change the cassette/CD.
jwhouk:
I call that "A Kid On Christmas Eve" Syndrome. You're going somewhere important, doing something you've been really looking forward to doing, or what not - and you can't sleep worth a blankety-blank.
I think I got like nothing for sleep the night before my wedding, and it wasn't only because my best man took me out on the town. And not only because I was sleeping at my parents' house in a room I hadn't slept in in decades.
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