The Insomnia Thread - #TeamNoSleep

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  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    My hubby is gone hunting this week and three nights in a row now I wake up every little while and just can't sleep for shit...it's horrible...I'm so tired....
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  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    I slept with my door shut last night to keep the cats out so hopefully I would sleep better...I still woke up every little while, but I do think it was a little bit better without the pests crawling all over me all night thinking I need to get up in the middle of the night and feed them....but this lack of sleep is making me not feel very good....
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  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    PJSiren said:

    I slept with my door shut last night to keep the cats out so hopefully I would sleep better...I still woke up every little while, but I do think it was a little bit better without the pests crawling all over me all night thinking I need to get up in the middle of the night and feed them....but this lack of sleep is making me not feel very good....

    they don't scratch at the door? I've got one who insists on taking up the whole bed with me every night then gets mad when I move. The other one has been sounding the alarm at 630am waking me up thinking someone's broken in but she's just crying for no reason. I mean no good reason.

    I feel weird. After several nights in a row where i can't sleep for hours then fall asleep for an hour or two at a time regardless of whether or not I've taken an Ambien or tea or what time i've stopped eating/drinking I am starting to think my mental functioning has become impaired.
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  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    ldent42 said:

    PJSiren said:

    I slept with my door shut last night to keep the cats out so hopefully I would sleep better...I still woke up every little while, but I do think it was a little bit better without the pests crawling all over me all night thinking I need to get up in the middle of the night and feed them....but this lack of sleep is making me not feel very good....

    they don't scratch at the door? I've got one who insists on taking up the whole bed with me every night then gets mad when I move. The other one has been sounding the alarm at 630am waking me up thinking someone's broken in but she's just crying for no reason. I mean no good reason.
    I was pleasantly surprised to discover they did not scratch at the door...if they had I would definitely not have gotten any sleep that way...
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,663
    edited October 2014
    ldent42 said:

    PJSiren said:

    I slept with my door shut last night to keep the cats out so hopefully I would sleep better...I still woke up every little while, but I do think it was a little bit better without the pests crawling all over me all night thinking I need to get up in the middle of the night and feed them....but this lack of sleep is making me not feel very good....

    they don't scratch at the door? I've got one who insists on taking up the whole bed with me every night then gets mad when I move. The other one has been sounding the alarm at 630am waking me up thinking someone's broken in but she's just crying for no reason. I mean no good reason.

    I feel weird. After several nights in a row where i can't sleep for hours then fall asleep for an hour or two at a time regardless of whether or not I've taken an Ambien or tea or what time i've stopped eating/drinking I am starting to think my mental functioning has become impaired.
    Ha. Mine sleeps right in the middle of my bed with her head on my pillow. I'm over at the edge. :)) But luckily the cat is not usually the one responsible for my lack of sleep. She just snores the cutest little kitty snore. ;;)
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
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  • oh yeah...
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,663

    oh yeah...

    I suspect that your sleep schedule is pretty irregular Dimitris! The number one cause of insomnia! Maybe you'll straighten it out again once the tour is over. ;)
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    edited October 2014
    ugh ambien posts are worse than drunk texts.
    nothing to see here.
    Post edited by ldent42 on
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  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    PJ_Soul said:

    RKCNDY said:

    don't worry Ident...we're all in the same boat for trying to sleep. I have some ambien from like 5 years ago...sometimes I want to take it, and then I'm afraid of what would happen if I did, would I just be all ambien high instead of sleeping?

    I could sleep better if someone wouldn't snore so loud! I got a sound meter app on my phone so I could show them how loud they are... 75db image

    @-) It's giving you hearing damage!! %-(
    what? image

    I feel like this most nights:

    image


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    - Christopher McCandless
  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    The lack of sleep this week is catching up to me...I totally forgot to take my pills this morning, and I never do that, so I'm blaming the sleep....and due to no pills I've been on edge all day...and another side effect of less sleep is wonderful headaches.....UGH!
    Music is my Religion and Pearl Jam, my Savior!
    Tattooed Dissident!
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,663
    RKCNDY said:

    PJ_Soul said:

    RKCNDY said:

    don't worry Ident...we're all in the same boat for trying to sleep. I have some ambien from like 5 years ago...sometimes I want to take it, and then I'm afraid of what would happen if I did, would I just be all ambien high instead of sleeping?

    I could sleep better if someone wouldn't snore so loud! I got a sound meter app on my phone so I could show them how loud they are... 75db image

    @-) It's giving you hearing damage!! %-(
    what? image

    I feel like this most nights:

    image


    75 db is supposedly as loud as a vacuum cleaner... that couldn't be good for your ears all night every night, lol.
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • sometimes in the middle of the night it all comes back to me
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Cat people... If you spend 20 minutes playing with your cat and then feed them, just before bed on a regular ritual, they sleep through the night better! And if they try to wake you up for no good reason at god awful hours?? Ignore them! When they paw at your face, or try to get in your face, roll over. Believe it or not this comes from lack
    Of stimulation.. So if you ignore them, they'll either go find the other cats to play with, or go back to bed.

    So, I've been doing very mild yoga stretches to nice relaxing music before I get ready for bed.. Helps a little, but after 14 years of swing shifts, this crack if dawn shit is KILLING ME! I got the most sleep last night in two weeks! Ugh!
  • PJSiren
    PJSiren Salem, OR Posts: 5,863
    Still waking up at every little sound...and normally I'm a heavy sleeper...but without J here I am barely falling asleep...have a fucking migraine this morning...THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY!!! Just have to survive the workday....
    Music is my Religion and Pearl Jam, my Savior!
    Tattooed Dissident!
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    PJ_Soul said:



    75 db is supposedly as loud as a vacuum cleaner... that couldn't be good for your ears all night every night, lol.

    funny you say that...a vacuum cleaner is one of the sounds on my sleep app. image
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    boy, I really f'ed up that quote...
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,663
    You sure did. :P
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    RKCNDY said:

    boy, I really f'ed up that quote...

    PJ_Soul is unexpectedly inscrutable today...
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • whispering hands
    whispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    Quoting out of the box today RCKNDY?? ;-)
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,663

    RKCNDY said:

    boy, I really f'ed up that quote...

    PJ_Soul is unexpectedly inscrutable today...
    X_X :-\"
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata