Preserved Topic: Insomnia anyone

Isn't it great to be awake for days at a time??


WOOF! ^..^___)

~bet he won't say that once I get this orange pill down his throat~

yeah epecaliy drug induced.

Meiow

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yea, and once i get finally to sleeep i sleep for days...

"When you have insomnia... you never really sleep........... and you're never really awake either"

The worst one is to have insomnia AND a headache (I'm alergic to paracetemol).

Anyone got anymore of those orange pills?




Pretty...What do we blow up first? - Unknown

Woohoo! So Im not the only one here with insomnia. Yea I love the feeling of never actually getting any sleep at night and then going to school at 6:30 the next morning. Occationally on the weekeneds I doze off around 5-5 :30 and sleep till 7. I fall asleep in school all the time, and take frequent trips to the nurse just to get a few minutes rest ... Isnt Insomnia grand?

Jestah
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Yeah, I know what you mean. Mine is in spurts really. I usually go 3-4 days without sleep, then sleep for mostly 5 hours. I used to take medication for it but the side-effects made me feel funny. Big white hockey puck tablets that I had to choke down. HMMMMmmmm that reminds me of a song...

One pill makes you bigger...
One pill makes you small...
But the ones mother gives you
Don't do anything at all...

Just go ask Alice when she's ten feet tall....

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Woof ^..^____)

[This message has been edited by Wolfen (edited 01-21-2001).]

as for me.... My name is Isaiah, and i am a chocoholic. I love Dark Chocolate..... I love getting Chocolate icecream with orieo pieces and chocolate chips with hotfudge and a cherry.... I find myself eating over a half a bag of chocolate tastations a day. I MUST HAVE CHOCOLATE!!!!!!

HUH? what on eath did you say this thread was about??? WHERES the chocoholic.... oh... yeah... umm.... I didnt say anything.... err....



"i have seen what the world has to offer... i want none of it..."

At the sound of the click. I will be awake......


....*click*

Welcome to 3:40 a.m., please keep your arms and legs inside your chair until this screen comes to a complete stop. I hope you enjoyed playing CS for 4 hours. Have a nice stay.

-rat

I hate it when I fall asleep and my head falls on the kybd and I awake to the annoying beeping of a stuck key....

Malin and I had a discussion last night about bedtimes, the amount of sleep people need and get, and when to get up. As usual with me around, the topic turned philosophical, and I started to ask about "normal" people.

Now, we've all heard and read the people should get a good solid 8 hours sleep, right? AND, we've all been fed the message that getting into work bright and early is the way to go (or at least that was what every boss I ever had told me, up until the point where I became the boss (or at least prima donna) and set a more realistic hour of maybe 10:30-11:00am, heh.) We hear that 9:00 is one of those "good" times, though many places say 8:00. Personally, it takes me at least an hour and a half to get from waking up to leaving the house, more typically 2 hours, to which we can add the time needed to actually *get* to work, which can be a half hour, or an hour if I stop for coffee. SO, the topic moves on to bedtimes...

OK, I do the math, and realize that in order to get my good solid 8 hours of sleep and be at work by 9:00, I would have to wake up at 6:30, which implies my ass in bed by 10:30pm! Takes me a bit to get to sleep, so that makes it 10:00pm! Insane! Thinking back on all the borderline normal people I've known, I realize that I don't *know* anyone who goes to bed that early, I mean a total of ZERO people, nobody! What's going on here, is it a conspiracy to make us feel guilty and bad about ourselves, or to keep us stupid and gullible from lack of sleep?

I did an experiment a few years ago while working freelance, where I cut myself off from the clock, I slept when I got tired, and woke up when I felt sufficiently rested. I was HUGELY productive, I got tons of things done, I felt great.

The problem? I only got 6 days out of a week where 'normal' people seemed to get 7. I tended to sleep between 10 and 12 hours, and was awake and productive for between 20 and 24 hours. My average "day" was somewhere between 30 and 36 hours. I can only assume that on the planet where *I* am originally from, the sun move "veryvery slow through the sky!". Hmmm. (Yes, I know it more implies something about the rotation of my original planet, nit picky picky.)

SO! Has anyone else dealt with this issue, or done a similar test along these lines? How long is *your* ideal day, what can we infer about your planet of origin? Comments, please.

PS: I've been awake for perhaps 20 minutes, so my subconcious was responsible for any typos etc.... I *think* I'm responsible for the thoughts involved. Where's my tin foil hat?

Your pal, -doc-

It's funny how people brag about how little sleep they get these days - as if insomnia is something to be proud of. I'm proud to say that i get at least 4 to 6 hours of sleep on school nights, 10-17 hours on weekends. People tell me that isn't enough sleep, 5 minutes later they'll start whining about how they were up all night - although it isn't really whining...today if you don't have something wrong with you then no one will notice you, and on the other hand when you're perfect people notice you all the time. the funny thing is that no one is perfect, they only cover up all their little whatevers in one way that some other equivalant person would not...i'm still not sure what i'm getting at, i'll probably never know...just as taxon so eloquently quoted from chuck palahniuk i would like to expand...my problem is that i like to think that i don't really have a problem and therefore today that is my problem...or it could just be that i fell asleep and never quite woke up...ya know that tingly feeling you get in your toes when your foot falls asleep...that's where i'm coming from...i'd like to think some of that made sense...whatever...i've officially diagnosed my self with chinese food elightenment syndrome...



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on my first trek into the world of corporate society, dealing with times and such required that i be in the office by noon. as long as i worked 8 hours that day, it was all good.

and that's when my head broke. for no apparent reason.

i got there at 7. every morning. and i stayed until 5 or 6, sometimes 7 or 8. so i'm a workaholic? so they worked me a lot? not really sure. i still do it--can't, on a weekday, sleep past 5:30 or 6. just developed it into a really useful habit--i never encounter traffic, and i always look better than any coworker; more cheery. call me special.

(nickname=twItch)(realname=steve)(email=steve@th-inknet.com)(chatname=8520632)(minutiae= whatthefuck)

I am like twitch. I am a teacher and my contract time is 8:05. I am usually here by 7:00 - 7:15 though. I just loving getting all my work done in the morning and not having to worry about anything for the rest of the day. Usually I spend my planning period checking email and peeking in on the Asylum. On the weekends I wake up almost automatically at 7:00 and then if I want more sleep I just go back to sleep. I never have insomnia, I am asleep as soon as I hit the pillow unless I have other things to occupy me (read, girlfriend is in town for the weekend).

Try it. Start waking up everyday at the same time and you will train yourself. Pretty soon you'll just wake up and feel rereshed. Not have to drag your sorry ass out of bed and walk around like a zombie.

I've got a bigger problem Krets....I've been trying to drag my wife's sorry ass out of bed every morning for the past 9 years....It takes her a half an hour every morning just to get out of bed then another hour to do her hair....she moves like molasses in January

the amount of sleep required by the average person is just half an hour more.

Honestly, I'm an insomniac too..

Yeah, doctor said that we should get a good 8 hours sleep. I used to sleep an average 6 hours, but things get really complicated and I really need extra time so that I can be satisfied with the things I do. Last night, I was doing my assignment straight 22 hours and get a nice 2 hours nap. I feel so dizzy that I miss the fun with my friends.

Hey! We should really get a nice 8 hours sleep. Dont you guys think so?

When I was single, I would only get about 4 hours of sleep a night, then one day a week I would get home from work and collapse on the bed and sleep right through to the next morning and off I would go on that cycle again ... plow through a week then burn out one night. Actually worked out real nice. That one night of solid sleep would be the most refreshing and complete sleep ever!

Now that I am married with children, I am forced to stick with a "normal" schedule that sometimes drives me nuts. I can't do my weekly crash out anymore. I have lots of trouble getting to sleep each night and I feel like hell every morning. Even the deal about getting up at the same time every morning doesn't work like it does with kretsminky.

I have to be at work no later than 7:30, sometimes as early as 6:00 if I have to go to PT (physical training ... I am a Marine). After 12 years of this early morning crap I still can't stand it! I can stay up all night long with no problem. I am just not a day person I guess.

BeeKay

Semper Fi

Insomnia? Nope!!!
I use to be a night owl (cause I was a cocktail waitress) go to bed at 5-6.00 a.m. and just got use to it. When I got back to school I had to wake up at 6.00 so I slowly changed my internal clock. Now I go to bed at 10.30 on weekdays and 12.00a.m. on the weekends. Now I don't have a problem falling asleep, I manage to get a hot date with "Prince Valium" (no I don't take valiums!!!, it's a liberty on my part to rename Morpheus!) within minutes from touching the pillow!

I did an experiment with myself once. I assumed that humans are pretty adaptable beings, so I would train myself to need less sleep. I spent 4 weeks shortening my sleep everynight until I was down to 2:30 hrs/night. Went for 10 weeks at 2:30 hrs/night. I got a whole lot of stuff done, incredably productive, and I never really felt that I was sleep deprived. Of course, then a paper was due and I went for 3 days without sleep. When I finally let myself sleep, I couldn't get back on to the 2:30 hrs/night schedule. I may have to try it again sometime. Part of me thinks that my hypothesis about adaptation is correct....of course it could have been 'cuz I was young too...I really should try it again now that I'm an 'old man.'

when I was in high school I worked it so I hit the sack from 4:00PM (after school) to 11:00PM, I then partied from midnight till I had to go to school at 7:00-3:00...
it was a bitching schedule.. I made good friends with the Graveyard shift All-in-One lady and there was never any traffic... the tough part was that there was hardly ever anything open except for this nifty pool hall

...then, when I worked for G-Designs, we would web design straight until the project was finished and then we'd party and sleep in the same amount of time (e.g. we finished a project in 3 days, then three days of sleep and party)

...however, now that I have a girfriend with kids who have both nightmares AND school, I get an average of about 20 minutes a day... if I'm lucky...
ha!

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I slept a * normal * schedule up until about 2 1/2 yrs. ago. I got really sick ( fever 104.7, convultions, the whole bit ) and for that 10 day peroid, getting over it, I was never asleep or awake for more than 2 houra in a row. Ever since then I`ve been averaging 3-4 hrs/ night ( which is NOT enough ) until it catches up with me, then sleep for 8-9 hrs for a day or two. Never seem to get caught up.
The only sleep expreriments I did involved pharmicuticals and dancers. Glad I quit doing both.





I Think, Therefore I Think I Am

Doc,

Your test was interesting, because I did something similar.

One year in college, I quit going to classes all together and just sat around on the internet and playing computer games. I went to bed when I was tired and got up when I felt like it. I was working on a 48 hour schedule. I would stay awake for 36 hours and sleep for 12. The only thing that kept me from being productive was a lack of motivation.

One summer I slept for 12 hours and awoke for 12 hours. I got tired and fell asleep at around 6 a.m. I would wake up at 6 p.m. I spent my waking hours lying in my bed watching tv and only left it to walk into the kitchen for food. What a grand summer that was.

yes netmosis, I do believe Palahniuk re-created the feeling that so many of us experience but have trouble conveying to others.

And yes, it does sort of seem that mental and physical ailments are an "in" thing in our present times.

taxon-
suddenly Silverchair's "freak" kicks into life's soundtrack...awesome song...i don't know why more people don't like that band...maybe the new album scared them off (i agree neon ballroom sucked)...
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j



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Bed times are like Trix... they are for kids


btw Trix cereal not Trixter haha