Insomnia Cafe

Iwan naloseit

Iwan naloseit

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Hey, I noticed yesterday that there are alot of insomniacs on here. So I decided to start a thread for us.
Hi, my name is Iwan and I can't sleep sometimes. Other times I can, but those times are always inconvenient.
I started having sleeping problems when I was young. All of my siblings have insomnia issues also. Mine is early wake. I wake up and I can't get back to sleep, even if I've just gone to sleep sometimes. My body for some reason thinks its had enough sleep even though I have different ideas. My younger sister can't fall asleep without laying in bed for hours. My brother can't stay asleep, but he can wake up and fall back to sleep up to 40 times a night (7-9 hour period). Our maternal grandmother also has early wake insomnia. Maybe it skips a generation or something because my mom sleeps like the dead.
Anyways, I'm really widdling away hours trying to keep from setting foot in the 'bad girl land' that is my kitchen, I actually havn't made it to bed tonight, I'm too keyed up from a crappy day. I read alot. You'd think reading late at night would knock the average person out in an instant. I can read entire books at night. Anyways, it'll be interesting if any other night owls happen to visit. I'm off to sift through shelves for my copy of Dr. Faustus.
 
Well i figured since it's 2:10 AM here :eek: i'd say hi I always complain i don't get enough sleep yet i stay up to ungodly hours even though i need to get up WAY early to get my son then myself off to school ...nice to know there are others that are awake at these hours with me
 
No kidding, my mornings always start early and I'm never late for anything...but they can be hades. Especially since I quit the coffee...man I miss the coffee!
 
insomnia has it's benefits... i'm the worlds living authority on informercials... :D I'v watched 'em all and i think i've bought most of hat they're selling... sometimes it helps to fall asleep - ron popeil is very boring :D
 
My name is OHD...and I'm an insomniac. :( I am like your little sister, I lay there for HOURS w/o getting to sleep, sometimes to the point of tears I'm so fatigued! It had gotten better, but I feel my slump steadily increasing. It's been getting harder and harder to get to sleep the last few weeks, having me going to sleep later and later..which makes for some HARD mornings! :eek:
 
I have problems getting to sleep and I'm a very light sleeper. If I were to try to sleep right now, there'd be no way. Most nights I'm up until 1ish. Its a cycle with me, I sleep late because I was up so late and I'm up so late because I slept too late. Hope that makes since.
 
That makes perfect sense to me. I just wish I could go back to sleep when I get woken up. I don't know what it is, a startle responce that gets my adrenaline and stuff pumping. Sometimes if I wake up really fast, say in an earthquake like a few weeks ago I'm not only unable to fall back to sleep but I can't hold still either, I pace, I'm jumpy, its like I just had a pot of coffee and some caffine pills. But often my mind and my body still feels tired at the same time. I'm on call alot of my job and I carry an emergency crisis phone with me and when it rings my body and brain snap into action. There is absolutly nothing worse then that phone.

So, other then insomnia what else is going on with you all. I just saw on the news that Alaska's permanent fund dividend is over a thousand buckaroos this year. We havn't planned on how we are going to spend ours but ironically the Penny's wishbook came in the mail today and my son got out a big sharpie marker and circled everything he wants twice...lol...I remember doing the same thing when I was a kid and I SWEAR I didn't teach it to him!
 
Ah, I have very fond memories of the wishbook! I used to go through that book in the middle of my grandma's living room and "go shopping". My dad was in the Air Force and when we'd get the base exchange catalogs, I gave my little washable markers a true work out! I think I even sent pages to "Santa" one year at Christmas. :p
 
I'm very angry at my neighbors this morning. Who decides to honk their horn several times at 2am and then proceed to rev their engine for 15 minutes...my neighbors. I'm sure they all think I'm a friggin' psycho today but whats new, they've thought I was a psycho since I bought the house and got the city to force them to clean up their junk yards. Before I came to work this moring, at 6:30am I sat in the middle of my street, right outside my neighbors house and layed on my horn then revved the engine for a good five minutes. Jerks! So, I got about 4 hours last night and read a really lame book, cleaned my bathroom and manicured and pedicured till it was safe to come to work without looking like an over acheiver. I hate people, except you people, you people rock.
 
Couldn't sleep last night...but I know why, had a lot on my mind. I should've gotten on here, but I decided to do laundry and clean my kitchen in the middle of the night instead. :rolleyes:
 
Hey, next time, you can come to my house...I got alot you can do. well, actually thats my plan for tonight. I just got rid of a headache I've had all day and I plan to clean the house before going to bed.
 
Blehh.. you had to remind me? I have about 2 weeks worth of laundry to do today. I'm running low on undies! :p
 
pequin said:
Blehh.. you had to remind me? I have about 2 weeks worth of laundry to do today. I'm running low on undies! :p
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I have two drawers full...college taught me a useful lesson. The more you have the less frequently you have to do laundry. My daughter and I have an insane amount of undies and socks just for this reason! :p :p :p
 
Can't sleep again tonight, "ex" induced insomnia this time.:( He just called as I was trying to get to sleep, now he's upset me so much that my sleepiness has vanished though my body is dead tired. Why won't he just leave me alone? He flies in this morning (without telling me) and leaves out tomorrow morning and yet he waits until after midnight to discuss coming over. I will NOT be used, as much as I love him still and as much as I wanted to see him, I refused. I deserve better and I know that...but it still hurts.

I don't feel like doing laundry, all the dishes are done...so here I am, depressed and too stressed to sleep. Good thing I don't have any chocolate in the house. :(
 
dariqueen said:
OHD, good on you for not allowing him over...he must be an ex for a reason, right?
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You're right, only problem is that my heart isn't as rationale as my head. :eek: Thanks for the dose of reality, I needed it. Going to try to get some sleep now, the alarm will be sounding before I know it. ~Thanks DQ *hug*
 
I think we should have an insomnia cafe challenge. Like for every hour of sleep your not sleeping you do, say, 50 crunches, or something to that effect. I'm bored. I know I won't be able to sleep for a few hours yet and I can't go in my kitchen anymore, not even to clean it. Its my rule.
So, anyways, I"m sitting here at my computer in front of a big window and I can *feel* someone watching me. I hate that feeling. Thank the Goddess I have a laptop and a wireless connection...lol.
Now, something else. I need a vacation destination that is warm, fun for kids and not way too expensive (plane tickets out of Dutch are $1000 r/t so theres two grand of the vacation money right there and that only gets us to anchorage).
 
Sounds like a great idea - When does that start? At like your 'bed time' or after you get up? Hope the creepiness went away, I hate that. I swear to GOD our house is haunted. Some nights I can hear him pacing in front of my bed, the floor boards even creek! I have to remind myself that I'm just too old to go running into my mommy's room.. lol
 
I live in a haunted house too, I hate it sometimes.
anyways, just thought I'd drop by the insomnia thread and say I'm present and accounted for atm, although I could fall off to sleep at any time, my eyeballs feel like sandpaper and honey and my head is doing the head snap thing. Working out in the morining has really done wonders on my sleep pattern though, but drinking so much water pretty much voids it out sometimes.
 
so. very. bored...

And so far from sleepy. I've just visited evey site in my favorites... maybe I'll bug some of my email contacts... *sigh*
 
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