The Official Insomniacs Thread

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Here I am, up a second time tonight.
I had a phenomenal bike ride Wed night on an familiar trail with some new interesting sections thrown in. When I got home, I was happily exhausted and fell asleep immediately after a refreshing shower.
Then it came.....the 2:30 wake up from a great sleep, and quite frankly an amazing dream.
Got on line for about an hour signing off at 3:30 to try and get some more shut eye, to no avail.

Is it possible that I slept so blissfully that I'm actually up for the day?
I hope not. If so, then I suspect I'll hit a wall about 2 pm today.

What time did you fall asleep? I notice that even though we are supposed to get 7-8 hours of sleep. if I sleep 5 hours nonstop I feel just as rested..

Are you gonna be anywhere you can take a powernap at 2PM? That's the time of the day when people naturally hit the wall. On nights when I'm in Insomniac mode, I often read about things like sleep and parabolic skis. My issue isn't waking up to early but going to bed to late when I have to wake up early for work..

 

[Trekchick]

I got home from my bike ride about 9:30 PM and fell asleep sometime shortly after 10.
I really thrive on 7-8 hrs of sleep but can make due with 6.
At 2 PM I'll be at my desk and not in a position to take any kind of siesta.

 

[Warp Daddy]

Trek sure hope you get a great nit's rest tonite ------------------maybe reel in the endorphins today i.e shorter less intense ride --b well friend

Warp : Ps stepped on the scales this am DOWN 30 lbs but 15 of it was IV fluids from surgery -------portion control really works marvels . we always ate low fat hi fiber but this is really working out well

 

[mondeo]

Didn't go to bed until 2 last night, good sleep until noon, after a couple hours lying awake figured I might as well get some work done. A little sleepy now so I'll give it another go, but tomorrow's gonna suck.

 

[Trekchick]

Insomnia is a two party issue sometimes.
I slept fine but MR TC woke up at 3 AM with an ear ache, which meant I had to get up and help him with ear drops.
Hope he feels better today, Ear issues suck

 

[dmc]

In Korea... Working on some stressful stuff...
Slept maybe 4 hours last tonight(5AM here)...

Sucks...

 

[ccskier]

Pretty much don't sleep here. Have narrowed it down to the two nights a week my wife works, she is a cardiac nurse works just two shifts a week but they are 7p-7a. This staying up late without partying is useless.

 

[dmc]

what do you call a dyslexic - agnostic - insomniac?




somebody who stays up all night pondering the existence of a dog...

 

[Trekchick]

We've had a new puppy for a few weeks, who just so happens to wake up at 3 am to play.
I guess I need to get to bed earlier so I can be prepared for the 3 AM wet nose wake up.

 

[Trekchick]

Up at 3 AM to play and NOW he sleeps!!!

 

[severine]

Wide awake at 2AM. Woke up 20 minutes ago with an allergy attack. Just waiting for the meds to kick in so I can get some sleep... "Shopgirl" is on. Shouldn't take long.

 

[Trekchick]

Husband's cell phone beeped that the battery is dead/dyeing. Woke me up and drove me nuts until I got up to plug it into the charger. You think I can get back to sleep? ARGH!
Turner and Hooch is on. I forgot how funny that was :lol:

 

[drjeff]

COMPLETELY passed out (from exhaustion, NOT booze on the couch infront of the TV a little before 10, got woken up by the dog licking my face (and NEEDING to go out) about 4:15 No way I'm falling back asleep now and the kids have orders not to get up before 8 and my wife is in New York City and as of yet I've yet to find anything on all roughly 1,000,000 channels on TV

 

[RootDKJ]

COMPLETELY passed out (from exhaustion, NOT booze on the couch infront of the TV a little before 10, got woken up by the dog licking my face (and NEEDING to go out) about 4:15 No way I'm falling back asleep now and the kids have orders not to get up before 8 and my wife is in New York City and as of yet I've yet to find anything on all roughly 1,000,000 channels on TV

That's because you need to use the on-demand feature for decent late night content.

 

[Trekchick]

COMPLETELY passed out (from exhaustion, NOT booze on the couch infront of the TV a little before 10, got woken up by the dog licking my face (and NEEDING to go out) about 4:15 No way I'm falling back asleep now and the kids have orders not to get up before 8 and my wife is in New York City and as of yet I've yet to find anything on all roughly 1,000,000 channels on TV

I have this problem especially at my age.....
I fall asleep early then need to get up at 2 or 3 AM to pee. When I get up to pee the dog thinks I'm up for the day, which means, it must be time to play.
It often takes some time to get him to go back to sleep.

 

[severine]

Wide awake at 2AM. Woke up 20 minutes ago with an allergy attack. Just waiting for the meds to kick in so I can get some sleep... "Shopgirl" is on. Shouldn't take long.

I ended up staying awake for the whole movie. Didn't fall back asleep until after 4AM.

Husband's cell phone beeped that the battery is dead/dyeing. Woke me up and drove me nuts until I got up to plug it into the charger. You think I can get back to sleep? ARGH!
Turner and Hooch is on. I forgot how funny that was :lol:

My sis's dog looks just like Hooch.

 

[drjeff]

That's because you need to use the on-demand feature for decent late night content.

Yup, problem is as of late I've watched most of the stuff on-demand offers that interests me

 

[AMAC2233]

Research paper. It's going to be a long night for me. Reading this thread is pretty comforting though!

 

[drjeff]

Last night was the complete opposite. Felt like cr@p when I got home. My wife got home a few minutes later, and I must have looked like cr@p too, as immediately she told me to go lie down. That was 4:30PM, I basically slept all the way through until 5:30AM! Haven't pulled a sleep session like that in probably close to 20 years during my college days! Now I only feel like semi-cr@p today

 

[severine]

Woke up about 20 min ago when I couldn't stop sneezing. Strange because I took Zyrtec before bed but here I am, runny nose and sneezing and can't get back to sleep. I'm tired... I didn't even go to sleep until after 1:30AM as it is!