I have to admit that I'm completely useless at sleep. I get up at 5.30am on work days, but then in the evening I forget that I have to get up at 5.30am and stay up till midnight or 1am. Then I'm in a daze most the day, but I've got so used to that over the years that it seems completely normal. It's only when we have a 4 day weekend like last weekend, or a holiday, that I wonder why I feel so good all of a sudden.
But if I do get a good night's sleep one night then I just stay up much later the next night and it all goes wrong again.
I need my mum to tell me to go to bed, at about 9pm or something.
How about you? Are you a sleeper or a yawner? Or both. Or neither.
Posted by Benny in the East (Member # 903) on :
I have terrible sleep patterns. I tend to not sleep until exhastion hits and then have a deep sleep for a few hours and then back to the non-sleeping thing.
I dream a lot though, so maybe I'm okay.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
I'm very dull. I tend to go to bed about 11, read for a while, go to sleep about midnight and get up at 7.30. However, I'm very much more an owl than lark. I have to be forced from my bed with a crowbar, and don't really wake up until 3 in the afternoon. R is one of those annoying sorts who springs from bed at 6, even at the weekend, and has read half of a worthy book on climate change by the time I crawl down the stairs at 10am.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
I often cant sleep if I am not drunk. That is bad, right?
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
I have trouble getting off to sleep sometimes. Recently I've been getting out of bed and lying on the floor with just a sheet over me. This sometimes works for some reason. I guess it could be because I can spread out more and it's cooler. Or it could be that I can easily wrap the sheet around my head until just my nose and mouth are visible. I like to sleep like that. Sometimes I start off in the fetal position but usually I end up on my front with my head to the left holding the pillow. At some point in the early hours of the morning I'll usually awake and get back into the bed. Generally I'll go bed between 11 and 12 o clock and wake at between 7 and 7:30. I'm usually up and in the shower by 8, then I hang around the house until 9.
Christ that was boring, sorry.
Posted by Zygote (Member # 883) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: I often cant sleep if I am not drunk. That is bad, right?
Yes.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: I often cant sleep if I am not drunk. That is bad, right?
Only if you have no more booze left in the house.
Posted by Zygote (Member # 883) on :
I remember going 'cold turkey' for a while in January. I couldn't sleep for four fucking days. I finally gave in and bought some tablets from the pharmacy which worked very well. Worst days of my life. I hate not sleeping.
Conclusion: Not drinking is very bad for you.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
A favourite of mine when drunk is to wake up about five and lie sweating and worrying about how utterly hopeless life is, and how everyone I love is going to die. Then after about two hours I go back to sleep.
I also find it hard to sleep on holiday, so they end up being not very relaxing at all.
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Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
I find it hard to sleep if I haven't - you know - come within the last hour or so, and if it's the night after a heavy night, I often need three or four orgasms in a row before I can settle down enough to get to sleep.
Other than that... I dunno. I'm quite a heavy sleeper; seem to need quite a lot of it. 10.30 til 7.00 is ideal, but I'm terrible for waking up in the middle of the night needing to pee, trying to get back to sleep and then having really disturbed sleep peppered with dreams nabout going to the loo but not actually getting any relief (thank christ, I suppose). That always really fucks up my sleep. End up getting up to piss at 6am, falling into a deep, deep sleep at 6.30 and then getting woken up at 6.55 wanting to kill someone.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Tilde: I can easily wrap the sheet around my head until just my nose and mouth are visible.
What the fuck..?
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Typically I go to bed at about 1am. I'll then lay in bed for about an hour trying to get comfortable because my bed is broken and has a massive dip in the middle (you are the massive dip in the middle, ringo) then nod off. About an hour later I'll wake up and repeat the process. I'll then wake up around 6.45, 15 minutes before official wake-up time. 'Ah' I think ' a little bit of snoozing time'. I wake up again at about 8.15, leap out of bed with squinty panicky eyes, sup down a mug of black coffee like it's medicine, then dress quickly and leave for work.
Sometimes I'm on auto pilot to such an extent that I'll be halfway to work before I have a lucid moment and think "oh, I'm nearly at work... how did that happen" when my last memory was laying in bed feeling warm.
I do this every day.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
My brother is a nightmare to deal with sleepwise. Stop me if I've told this tale before. Oh, you can't. Oh well. My brother is two years older than me but he was never a typical older brother, never did all the older brother things. If anything, I picked on him.
Anyway, when he left school he was fired from more than one job for his tardiness. He was just incapable of getting himself out of bed. So, every morning I'd be woken up by my parents screaming outside my bedroom door..."Steven.....STEVEN!"
My mum threw a bucket of water over him once. That was cool. But mostly the whole thing was just a pain in the arse. The thing was, his bedroom was a loft extension and you had to climb up a ladder to get there. The foot of the ladder was just outside my bedroom door and the height of the ladder meant my mum or my dad were not going to climb up there to wake their first born, but would stand at the bottom bellowing up at him instead.
Eventually, after being fired from another job, the only employment he could find meant starting at 6:30 in the morning or something. No alarm clock would rouse him so it fell to my parents once again to get him up. Reasoning that he was buggered if he was going to get out of bed at 6:00am every day, my dad did what all true dads would do: bought an industrial fire bell from a reclaimation yard, bolted it to the headboard of my brother's bed, ran a wire down the wall and across the landing and into my parents bedroom then wired it into a doorbell push, which he attached to the wall by his bed. That way, every morning at 6:00 my dad's clock radio would go off and he would beginthe ceremonial sounding of the bells.
This would go on until my brother's voice (very angry) cut through the noise: "Alright! Alright! I'm up!"
He was never up. The process would be repeated three or four times. The last time, my dad would not stop pushing the button until my brother actually came down his ladder and begged him to stop.
This buzzer was fucking ridiculous. I swear, if he wasn't in bed when it was pressed, the bed used to walk across the room like something from Poltergeist.
When I started at university, one of my mates came to stay over the summer. He slept on the floor of my room. At 6:00am, he shot bolt upright: "What the fuck was that?"
The room was shaking and buzzing, a small earthquake was going on in the eaves of our house.
"It's just my brother," I said with embarassment, "he can't get up in the morning so my dad has bolted an industrial fire bell to his headboard and attached it to a doorbell push."
"Oh," he said, pausing before asking, "How old is your brother?"
"23."
Twenty three fucking years old. He's thirty seven now and he’s still as bad. Maybe you need to borrow my dad Dang.
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Posted by Jimmy Big Nuts (Member # 895) on :
I can only get to sleep if I gently rock myself and make low humming noise for about half an hour. Like an "errrrrrr--errrrrr--errrrr", while I sort of press my head against the wall. One girlfriend used to say that I acted like an Albanian orphan. I also cry a lot in my sleep, I'm told.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
Also, (and this is one of the biggest motivational factors for wanting to move back out again) my bedroom is right next to the bathroom. My parents, now approaching retirement age, seem to need to get up and piss about 500 times a night. Not only do they do this, but insist on peeing as noisily as fucking possible right into the toilet water. This usually happens just as I'm drifting off to sleep, I'm startled by the noise of the door, and then have to rush to get my pillow clamped as firmly over my ears as possible while going "laalaalaaIcan'treallyhearmymumpissinglaalala"
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
I never have any trouble getting to sleep drunk or sober. I fucking hate getting up for work, though. Weekends and on holiday I'm out of my pit at the crack of dawn. Monday to Friday? Fuggeddaboutit.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Don't you stop needing sleep when you have children?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Ringo: peeing as noisily as fucking possible right into the toilet water.
Do you think they're doing this on purpose? Maybe they hang off the shower rail, or do handstands to increase the pissing distance?
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
I sleep upside down. Hanging by my toes.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Man it is totally like 2002 today. For a second there I couldn't tell the difference between Louche and Lucid again.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: Don't you stop needing sleep when you have children?
That's sex you're thinking about.
The boys are away in Dundee this week and it's the first time I've had morning sex in ages. Can't speak for the missus, obv.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: Man it is totally like 2002 today. For a second there I couldn't tell the difference between Louche and Lucid again.
I wasn't even here in 2002. Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
I don't know why I did the madface. Sorry, Jonesy. I'm not really mad.
Posted by Tilde (Member # 1215) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: my dad did what all true dads would do: bought an industrial fire bell from a reclaimation yard, bolted it to the headboard of my brother's bed, ran a wire down the wall and across the landing and into my parents bedroom then wired it into a doorbell push, which he attached to the wall by his bed. That way, every morning at 6:00 my dad's clock radio would go off and he would beginthe ceremonial sounding of the bells.
I love the fact that your dad pioneered the Big Brother wake up method. Your dad sounds excellent. Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Do you think they're doing this on purpose? Maybe they hang off the shower rail, or do handstands to increase the pissing distance?
I think they might be subtly trying to motivate me into moving out. It's bloody working too.
I swear, I haven't had a single good night's sleep since moving back. When I was living with adam, despite the stress of living with a borderline obsessive compulsive, I'm sure I generally went to bed, slept relatively soundly through the night, then woke up just in time to stop the alarm from going off.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Hey Black Mask, everyone I've told that my wife is having twins has laughed in my face. Not just a little laugh but great, big, hearty belly laughs. My sister almost crashed her car from laughing so hard. My mum had to run to the toilet before her bladder exploded and my other sister just laughed and laughed and laughed in my face - between hysterical sobs of mirth she managed to spit out the sentence "We were just talking about twins the other day....hahahahhahaha.... it could happen to anyone but it didn't .....ahahahaha ....it happened to Uncle Bastard. Hahahahahahaha"
So, yeah, BM, you've got twins. Any advice? Apart from "Track down the father and give him a good kicking."
[ 12.04.2007, 10:48: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
I sleep badly. I wake up about once an hour or so, then I get up at least once to pee and once to have a drink (y'know if I drank my own pee I need not get out of bed at all).
Then when the alarm goes off I jump out of bed and sit around for an hour drinking tea till I'm in a fit state to leave for work.
However, if I pass out on the couch drunk I sleep like a fucking log.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote:Originally posted by Louche: I wasn't even here in 2002.
Sorry, must have been Lucid.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: my wife is having twins
What!?
Did I know this?! Sorry, I've been a bit...
You're expecting twins!? I knew your old lady was up the duff but...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA In... your... face!
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: Any advice?
Twins are a piece of piss. Breast is best. Get them into a sleep pattern asap, sleep training... you train them to sleep, or something. It works. I'll look it up.
Um... don't buy a baby bath. They're a waste of money, they'll give you a bad back and it's more fun taking the kids in the bath with you. Once they're crawling they'll keep each other entertained.
Finally, remember, CHOICE IS THE ENEMY OF HARMONY!
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: y'know if I drank my own pee I need not get out of bed at all
You can get your own cock in your mouth?
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I am really undisciplined when it comes to going to bed. The last couple of nights I've gone to sleep somewhere around 2 to 2.30 am. This has a knock-on effect in that yesterday I eventually got up at maybe 8.15 and today it was just before 8 - luckily I have a well-honed morning routine and this doesn't make me late for work. A more usual bedtime is between midnight and 1am, getting up around 7.30. I used to really sleep in at the weekends but I don't these days - for some reason I'm more alert and usually get up between 8 and 9 then.
I have a barrage of alarms on the go: Mobile phone which starts going off at 7 and has a 9 minute snooze cycle, clock radio alarm (ditto) and finally a mechanical jobbie with the bells on the top, on a chest of drawers on the other side of the room and has me out of bed like a shot to turn it off, because it's really loud and really annoying, but which sadly doesn't prevent me from flopping back into bed for some more zeds.
I get to sleep without problem (often whilst lying on the sofa with a laptop resting precariously on my stomach in the middle of a Messenger conversation, as various Messenger contacts can verify). I don't need to pee in the middle of the night.
I can't usually remember my dreams.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: I sleep badly. I wake up about once an hour or so, then I get up at least once to pee and once to have a drink (y'know if I drank my own pee I need not get out of bed at all).
Hello Darryn hope you are feeling better
While you've been away we were all talking on another thread, and we've got sometihng to ask you. We would all be very happy and would like it very much if you could possibly give Zygote the tag 'The thinking woman's Harlequin'. I know I haven't donated for a while but it's not just me asking, we all would like that.
So please please please please, on behalf of all of of us I am asking if you could tag Zygote with that Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I will pay cash money if you do that too.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
My alarm goes off at 8:00am which gives me plenty of time to get ready and wander down for the the 08:35 train. Yesterday morning I must have turned the alarm off, rolled over and gone back to sleep. I woke up at 10:00am, and found my mobile had about ten text messages from my boss asking "where are you?"
Meh.
I'm sleeping in the lounge/living room at the moment because the bedroom is in mid-decoration (down to the bare plaster). My cat, M@~, has got into the wonderful habit of waking up around 5:30 every day and clawing me in the face/neck/testicles.
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by Nathan Bleak: give Zygote the tag 'The thinking woman's Harlequin'.
And while you're at it maybe give Harlequin the tag 'The slutty zombie's Zygote'?
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Jonesy's having twins? Kick a girl while she's down...
Posted by Zygote (Member # 883) on :
ETA - To the proposed tagging.
[ 12.04.2007, 11:12: Message edited by: Zygote ]
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
Actually, I think the whole Zygote=rapey thing is a bit tired. Maybe Zygote could have the tag 'Not a rapist, after all...'?
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
I'm sorry Herbs. I didn't mean to upset you. I've been trying to keep a lid on it for the last couple of weeks but I couldn't help myself. I can only say sorry for being so thoughtless.
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
quote:Originally posted by Zygote:
ETA - To the proposed tagging.
Hush now, Zygote. It'll all be over soon.
Posted by Ringo (Member # 47) on :
I'll pay money as well, if Zygote could have the aforementioned tag
Posted by Benny in the East (Member # 903) on :
jonesy
herbs
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
First you marry someone else...
It's OK Joan. I can imagine you're right excited. You lucky shit.
[ 12.04.2007, 11:18: Message edited by: herbs ]
Posted by Zygote (Member # 883) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Actually, I think the whole Zygote=rapey thing is a bit tired. Maybe Zygote could have the tag 'Not a rapist, after all...'?
Yes, I agree that it's been milked to death. Also, I made a donation the other week for two reasons. Firstly, we were talking about helping Mart out with his driving test fees, then agreed to donate it to TMO instead. Secondly, I didn't want to be tagged as anything to do with 'rapeyness'. That now includes anything to do with Harlequin/Steelgate.
But I'm sure I'm going to have to accept my fate anyway..
Posted by Zygote (Member # 883) on :
*glances nervously underneath username*
No, it still says 'TMO Member'. Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
You should be careful with this tag, lark, Zygote. They can stay with you for years. *not bitter*
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
quote:Herbs It's OK Joan. I can imagine you're right excited. You lucky shit.
I'm more terrified than excited really. Anyway, sleep - apparently I shout in my sleep when I've been drinking. I don't shout actual words; it's an unintelligable language, but I'm told it's quite obvious that I'm having an argument and raising my voice. Last night I was repeatedly mumbling some kind of question. The wife said "Yes" and I was satisfied. After that, I just shut up. Sleep shouting. Could be worse. A few weeks ago my sister was sleep walking and she fell out of a second story window, shattering her ankle and breaking her back . The first she knew about it was waking up fucked on a patio and not knowing how she got there. Now she genuinely wants to sell up and buy a bungalow because she's so frightened.
[ 12.04.2007, 11:28: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
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Posted by Nathan Bleak (Member # 1040) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: A few weeks ago my sister was sleep walking and she fell out of a second story window, shattering her ankle and breaking her back .
Jesus Christ that is awful. Is she going to be OK?
Posted by Black Mask (Member # 185) on :
quote:Originally posted by jonesy999: Now she genuinely wants to sell up and buy a bungalow because she's so frightened.
Tell her not to buy a bungalow near a volcano.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
She's going to be fine. She has had the cast of her ankle and is now on an inflatable cast thing. She is in a massive back brace which makes her look like and American Football Player. The brace covers her from waist to neck and it has a little window in the tummy, just like a telly tubby. This is so her stomach can expand when she has eaten - which is kind of freaky. She has two kids (one aged four and one 18 months) and she can't pick either of them up. Her husband has had to take a couple of months off work to help. He looks absolutely fucked at the moment. He's in the navy and he has to go back on ship for several months shortly. I mentioned it to him and said "I bet you'll be glad of the break" to which he replied "I can't fucking wait".
Posted by SilverGinger5 (Member # 49) on :
Who wants to bet that this was initially a misinterpretation about Jonesy's sister waking up being fucked on the patio?
Yeah, I kind of figured it would be but on a day when I've mocked rape, been revisited by a post I'm thoroughly ashamed of (in which I imagined a dogging woman-beater having sex with the mother of a murdered child), suggested that a much loved television presenter was a actually a murdering Nazi who laughed at deaf people, and helped get zygote branded 'that rape guy'...I don't think there's a lot I could say.
[ 12.04.2007, 12:24: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
Who wants to bet that this was initially a misinterpretation about Jonesy's sister waking up being fucked on the patio?
Yeah, I kind of figured it would be but on a day when I've mocked rape, been revisited by a post I'm thoroughly ashamed of (in which I imagined a dogging woman-beater having sex with the mother of a murdered child), suggested that a much loved television presenter was a actually a murdering Nazi who laughed at deaf people, and helped get zygote branded 'that rape guy'...I don't think there's a lot I could say.
Sorry? LOL
ETA If Hell was like some 18th century Bedlam and you could book tours, I'd go and wave at you.
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Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
Erm. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry everyone. Sorry Zygote, Sorry the family of Leslie Crowther, the spirit of Leslie crowther and everyone involved in the The Verdict. Also sorry to deaf people. SORRY!
[ 12.04.2007, 12:46: Message edited by: jonesy999 ]
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
pardon ?
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
Sorry Darryn. Congratulations. Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
Did I congratulate jonesy too? Congratulations. Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
quote:Originally posted by sam: Sorry Darryn. Congratulations.
I was actually saying pardon to Jonesy's deaf joke, but thanks Sam.. Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
I really envy those who can sleep. It's a gift.
I have permanent dark circles to add to my haggard, washed-out visage due to;
- being an incredibly light sleeper - always waking up early (around 5) and rarely being able to fall asleep again - lying awake tossing and turning, crushed under a choking burden of worries. I inevitably wake up at least once in the night panicking about the main one.
I've tried those valerian-based herbal sleeping tablets you can get from Boots, but they clearly don't pack enough firepower. Are there sleeping pills that will knock you out for a guaranteed 8 hours of worry-free oblivion that GPs will easily prescribe, does anyone know?
Congrats to Darryn and Jonesy. Happy Awesome Life.
Posted by wonderstarr (Member # 1158) on :
It may, like proper teeth-whitening kits, only be available in the US, VP, but GNC-brand "Melatonin 1 Dietary Supplement, Cherry Flavor" is a pretty powerful sleeping pill.
Posted by wonderstarr (Member # 1158) on :
I have also found those commercial hypnosis recordings (I've used two, for stress and improving memory) often send you to sleep.
Posted by Lickapaw#2 (Member # 1049) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: I often cant sleep if I am not drunk. That is bad, right?
I can't sleep if I am drunk. After 7 or 8 years of average drinking I still get that spinny thing when I lay down to go to sleep. I fucking hate getting that, because the bile rises like a rat out of a hole. Only quicker.
I mainly manage to avoid this by slowing down drinking, but the other week I forgot to and went to bed. Cue spinning room.
I laid there watching the light under the door for the best part of an hour, reciting the mantra "I will not be sick. I will not be sick. I will not be sick. I will not be sick. I will not be sick." in my head until, eventually, I had to get up and be sick.
Got to sleep really quick afterwards, though.
Posted by MiscellaneousFiles (Member # 60) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: Are there sleeping pills that will knock you out for a guaranteed 8 hours of worry-free oblivion that GPs will easily prescribe, does anyone know?
I don't know about pills, but it's impossible not to get a good night's sleep after a nice fat joint.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Tylenol PM are the best..
Posted by Boy Racer (Member # 498) on :
Congratulations to the fecund folk.
Herbs if it's any consolation at all I still haven't found anyone to have kids with. Which is perhaps unsurprising if you read on.
I snore.
I snore so badly that it's gone beyond snoring into the medical condition called obstructive sleep apnoea. It's a particularly pleasant condition that in the simplest terms meant that I hadn't had a proper nights sleep for several years. The doctors said that I was getting the equivalent of less than an hours sleep a night. No wonder I was always tired eh?
As a consequence I now have to wear a sort of snorkel attached to a reserve mini-hoover which blows pressurised air into me to stop my airway closing while I sleep. Sexy huh?
It is not particularly comfortable either and consequentially I tend to stay awake until I'm passing out tired before putting it on.
That said I'm no longer a walking zombie since I've been using it, and the Doctors say it's working, which is nice.
I tend to set my alarm earlier than I need to and repeat snooze about three times before blasting the cobwebbs away in the shower.
[ 13.04.2007, 06:15: Message edited by: Boy Racer ]
Posted by Kira (Member # 826) on :
quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles:
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: Are there sleeping pills that will knock you out for a guaranteed 8 hours of worry-free oblivion that GPs will easily prescribe, does anyone know?
I don't know about pills, but it's impossible not to get a good night's sleep after a nice fat joint.
ahh but make it a habit and its impossible to sleep without one
hmmm anyways...
I did think I was the worlds heaviest sleeper but then I think Jonesy's thread definately proves I'm not.
Generally I do seem to need an average of 7-8 hours sleep. If I've gone to bed any later than 11.30-12.00 it just ruins me for the next day.
A tired Kira is not a happy Kira. Being a miserable twat all day is not conducive to good relations with work colleagues or friends.
I'm still amazed that on a weekend I can still easily sleep until lunchtime, I always figured sleeping for 12-13 hours was something you only did as a teenager and would grow out of.
VP you can get something called nighttime milk which has melatonin in it and that helped me when I was feeling pretty stressed and was having problems sleeping not so long ago. Tescos normally stock it I think.
I also tried Kalms tablets and they also seemed to help, though this could have been a placebo affect I guess...
Posted by Benny in the East (Member # 903) on :
I had terrible trouble sleeping as a teenager (growing pains etc) and was given a sleeping tablet course to help this. I took one - the next day, while playing in goal in a football match, I only became aware that the other team had scored when a defender came over and got the ball, asking if I was okay. I didn't take any more.
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
quote: Are there sleeping pills that will knock you out for a guaranteed 8 hours of worry-free oblivion that GPs will easily prescribe, does anyone know?
Valium is lovely...but they wont give you very much of it
I am going to The America in a couple of weeks, I can grab some melatonin for you if you like? I think the Tylenol may be prescription only though.
Posted by SilverGinger5 (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by Boy Racer: I snore so badly that it's gone beyond snoring into the medical condition called obstructive sleep apnoea. It's a particularly pleasant condition that in the simplest terms meant that for several years I hadn't had a proper nights sleep. The doctors said that with the condition I was getting the equivilent of less than an hours sleep a night. No wonder I was always tired eh?
My friend apparently used to snore really badly, so badly that his wife would sometimes have to go and sleep in the spare room. He researched on the internet and apparently sleeping on a bit of a slope helps so he put about 3 books both legs at the head of his bed and apparently this has completely stopped all his snoring.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
A combination of wine and night nurse (mixed in the stomach, not the glass) is highly effective. As is a drop or two of lavender oil on the bed. Not too much, or it has the opposite effect.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by SilverGinger5: 3 books both legs at the head of his bed
Do you know which ones?
Posted by SilverGinger5 (Member # 49) on :
quote:Originally posted by mart: Do you know which ones?
I shall find out for you. Probably Terry Pratchett or something.
Posted by Boy Racer (Member # 498) on :
I'm not sure a slope would do much for me regardless of which books were used, but I'll give it a try.
Oh yeah and since I've started my new fitness regime I now have restless leg syndrome, which I hadn't had since I was a teenager, again. That's plain weird.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Sleep is a luxury for me - Its not that I can't sleep, more that I don't sleep properly. I snore - badly. As a result I do not get any proper sleep at all, as do those near me. I have been tired for the last 20 years, and it seems only an operation will fix it.
I often have to nap during the day, and can often start nodding off at work. I'll sleep on the train on the way to work, and often be out like a light on the way home again. I spend most of my life in a zombified state, and god forbid if I fall asleep on the couch when I get home from work, only to wake up at 2.30, and then unable to go back to sleep, even though I shattered.
Staying at peoples houses is an embarrasment, as I famously keep people awake - some people politely fib and say I didn't keep them awake, but I am sure they are just being nice. Others have resorted to punching me, making me sleep on the balcony, and other times I have resorted to just staying awake all night, petrified of disturbing anyone else.
It has ruined relationships, had one company to ask me if I was a drug user and I am sure has a detrimental effect on my health.
I think with the new planned life I am going to have to do something about it - I think its time I got it all sorted, before it becomes more than just a cause of my tiredness.
Posted by scrawny (Member # 113) on :
VP - tylenol PM are great and available over the counter in the states. I'm there in a couple of weeks - would you like some? I suspect, though, that the Melotonin ones might be less potentially addictive etc. Does anyone know if they're over the counter?
I feel like my entire active life is simply an intrusion on the time I could be spending in bed. Each morning before I get out of bed I have to calculate the number of hours it'll be before I can feasibly go back to bed. I can sleep through pretty much anything - slept through an earthquake once - and on anything, sofa, train, plane, in tents, in strange beds, on strange floors. I prefer not to share a bed with anyone apart from Bandy, but it doesn't ever stop me sleeping. My university tutor referred me for medical treatment when I fell asleep in the middle of a sentence once.
I am Bagpuss in human form...
Posted by sam (Member # 884) on :
The biggest trouble I have with sleep is actually making myself go to bed. Which is why I am posting on here at this time of night.
Posted by jonesy999 (Member # 5) on :
I am incredible in my sleep.
Absolutely incredible.
Goodnight all.
Posted by Boy Racer (Member # 498) on :
Shit yeah. I was amazing last night. Amazing.
Posted by sabian (Member # 6) on :
quote:Originally posted by Black Mask: Finally, remember, CHOICE IS THE ENEMY OF HARMONY!
*nods in agreement* sleepily
[ 16.04.2007, 06:38: Message edited by: sabian ]
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
someone say something, for fuck's sake.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
I had a lovely night's sleep last night. Window open a bit, clean duvet cover, all soft and drapey, mmm....
There, I said something.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
There's nothing left to say anymore.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
I've got a fairly crap reserve thread idea for situations like this. Hang on a minute and I'll get it started.
In the meantime, how about someone kicks off a 'Stripped' thread? Maybe a list with a basic 10 or 15 items in though, not 800 or whatever the Countries of the World list had.
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