Reason for sleep deprivation

[Trekchick]

Whether your sleep deprivation is due to outside forces, insomnia or some other such thing, I'm curious as to why you don't get the sleep you need, or want, in order to function on all 8 cylinders.

Does this sleep deprivation happen occasionally, frequently or almost always?

 

[drjeff]

Alpinezone posting! Enough said! Frequency increases as snow approaches!

Seriously for me, most of the time, its just due to me trying to do too much stuff that involves active brain thought too late in the evening. Once I get my mind set on some project, the brain is going 1000 miles an hour until I'm either done with the project or figured out what I want to do - and often it's work related stuff that I'm thinking about.

 

[bvibert]

The first one, frequently, enough said.

 

[riverc0il]

Dog wakes us up at night because it needs to go out :roll:

 

[Marc]

Work... around the house, outside the house... career.

 

[ctenidae]

I don't consider myself sleep deprived. 6 hours is about all I need, and it's about all I get. Anything more than that and I don't want to get out of bed, anything less than that, and I don't really notice.

So, deprived: no. Depraved: yeah, probably.

 

[andyzee]

I sleep very well thank you, so none of the above apply.. In the old days, it was drugs.

 

[Paul]

I gotta pee

 

[bvibert]

I don't consider myself sleep deprived. 6 hours is about all I need, and it's about all I get. Anything more than that and I don't want to get out of bed, anything less than that, and I don't really notice.

So, deprived: no. Depraved: yeah, probably.

I'd be happy to get 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep...

 

[Greg]

I sleep pretty well now most of the time.

 

[deadheadskier]

I sleep fairly well, but I am a 'worrier' more than I'd like to be. It's a double whammy inherited from my folks. My mom has always been the emotional worry about friends and loved ones, my father 'the provider' worrier (financial). I've got a bit of both....and if something unsettling is going on with someone close to me, sleep can be a struggle.

 

[Greg]

One thing I try to do when I'm having trouble falling asleep is to try to think about "nothing". If I am having trouble falling asleep it's usually because my mind is wandering. As soon as I start thinking about something, I try to erase it from my mind. Soon a new thought will pop into my head and I'll try to do the same thing. It's not easy to do, and is actually quite mentally exhausting which is usually why I then fall asleep pretty quickly. Weird, I know, but it works for me.

 

[BeanoNYC]

I've never slept well. Things have gotten better since my operation though. When I have a sleepless night now it's because my mind is running a mile a minute.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I sleep pretty well..my life is good..the only thing missing is a special woman but everytime I've been in a relationship I haven't slept as well when sharing a bed..because early in the relationship..I try not to fart in bed..and later in the relationship..I waste to much sleep time creating the ideal dutch over..

 

[severine]

I wouldn't mind 6 hrs of uninterrupted sleep either. Instead, for most of the past 17 months, I've got a little guy who wakes up anywhere from 1-9 times a night. Even the few times he's slept through the night, I haven't because I anticipated him waking up. As I type, it's the 2nd time he's woken since I got home 30 minutes ago, and he went to bed hours ago. Great, huh?

ETA: I will add that it's not entirely his fault. The neighbor upstairs is like a freakin' gypsy. Her kids (who are the same ages as mine) go to bed whenever. Last night, they were up past 10PM making all kinds of noise. They just got in 10 minutes ago and it's like a couple of bulls in the china shop up there. It's a miracle my daughter sleeps through the noise!

 

[hardline]

mine is combination of party to much and hooking up with too many people but hey thats why i do what i do. i love my job unless it gets in the way of my time on the snow.

 

[ctenidae]

One thing I try to do when I'm having trouble falling asleep is to try to think about "nothing". If I am having trouble falling asleep it's usually because my mind is wandering. As soon as I start thinking about something, I try to erase it from my mind. Soon a new thought will pop into my head and I'll try to do the same thing. It's not easy to do, and is actually quite mentally exhausting which is usually why I then fall asleep pretty quickly. Weird, I know, but it works for me.

Not weird- perfectly ordinary. It's also known as meditating, really- use a new thought to force out an old one. "Omm" woks pretty well for a lot of people.

I've never been one for laying awake worrying about stuff. My decision trees tend to be pretty simple- Can I do anything about it right now? If yes, do. If no, go to sleep. For those of you with kids that keep you up at night, while I empathize, I don't sympathize. Same with dogs.

 

[Beetlenut]

I sleep very well, for the 51/2 - 6 hours I can get each night before one or both of the boys wakes up. I fall asleep in less than 5 minutes, anywhere! My wife hates it. I start twitching and/or snoring before she can fall asleep. I use to do what you do Greg to fall asleep. Now it just happens as soon as I lay down. I guess 11 years of sleep deprivation will do that !

 

[wa-loaf]

I sleep pretty well..my life is good..the only thing missing is a special woman but everytime I've been in a relationship I haven't slept as well when sharing a bed..because early in the relationship..I try not to fart in bed..and later in the relationship..I waste to much sleep time creating the ideal dutch over..

And you wonder why they don't stick around? :smash: ;-)

 

[hardline]

I sleep pretty well..my life is good..the only thing missing is a special woman but everytime I've been in a relationship I haven't slept as well when sharing a bed..because early in the relationship..I try not to fart in bed..and later in the relationship..I waste to much sleep time creating the ideal dutch over..

dude you have to put that stuff out there. in my current harrem they know if i have been eating all sorts of nasty food all night that it going to get stinkay.