Insomnia

[dalekboy]

The last week or so, I've been going to bed late. I've put it down to being crook and getting up unusually late. It didn't seem to matter what time I went to bed, I wasn't close to being asleep by 2am. I took it that I had stuffed my sleep cycles.

The last couple of days I've ahd late nights and early mornings with the desired effect - last night at 10pm, I was knackered and ready to collapse into bed and sleep. I was in bed by 10 past 10, lights out, all snuggled and warm.

And I didn't sleep.

There are times when you don't think you've slept but you've actually been dozing. This wasn't one of those. I lay down and BING, the brain kicked into overdrive and wouldn't friggin' shut down. I was still awake at 2am! Bastard!

Been a while since I had an insomnia cycle. I'd forgotten how much I hate them.

Comments

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

I've had bad sleep patterns my whole life, being the uncontested World's Lightest Sleeper, now exacerbated by living with a relatively frequent snorer. My pattern for the past few weeks has been as follows: sleep restlessly if at all and wake up tired. Collapse into bed around 10:30 - 11. Even if sleep is achieved, wake up at 5 or so and find it impossible to go back to sleep. Therefore, become extremely tired and need to go to bed between 10:30 - 11. Rinse and repeat. Not as bad as insomnia so I won't claim I feel your pain but still annoying. Hang in there.

[lilysea.livejournal.com]

That's very frustrating and exasperating.

...Have you tried valerian tablets? I found that they helped when I was having trouble sleeping a while back.

Pharmacist Natural Formula (blue plastic bottle, in most Canberra chemists) do a version, so do Blackmores.

(You can also get valerian tea, but it tastes *foul* and you have to add honey to make it drinkable).

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

Considering I've seen defintions of insomina that include 'taking more than an hour or two to get to sleep', I've had insomina since I was about 11. But it's been worse the last couple of years - an earthquake saw to that.

Brought to you by 2 hours of sleep. Waiting for the purple monkeys any minute now.

[swirlability.livejournal.com]

I've given up thinking I'll ever sleep well. Broken sleep is my problem. I'm not a fan of sleep these days anyway. Too much time in the past when I spent for 12 hour stretches in bed just because I didn't want to be awake and aware. Sleep feels like wasted time.