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From one insomniac to another, I think this is probably a transformational event with attached negative fallout, but let's reframe. What could be causing the lack of sleep? What can we learn from it?
I've been hearing this a lot lately and I've been having trouble sleeping myself the past couple nights. SO, do you think it's something about this time of year, or do you think it's contagious?
I'm not sleeping either. I know the cause, though. No, I don't want to talk about it.
i sleep like someone shot me in the bum with a tranquilizer dart. i stay up reasonably late, don't eat much in the evening and read until i fall asleep (unless the Barry White music is playing)and wake up without an alarm at around 6:30 feeling rested. sorry
My wife is not sleeping very well either, on the other hand I seem to be fully rested almost every morning.
Larry wrote: "I'm not sleeping either. I know the cause, though. No, I don't want to talk about it."
Well when ever you do we're here for you Larry.
Well when ever you do we're here for you Larry.
my wife does the same thing Sherri. she can't shut her brain off and asks me questions as i am falling asleep. she takes Ambien most of the time so she can. now as she is falling asleep she talks like Amy Winehouse slurring her words and laughing for no reason
I've been sleeping ALOT over the past week. :) Maybe too much... then again, I'm not sick, and I'm happy as a lark, so it can't be too bad for me. Sally, I was in your shoes two weeks ago, though. I get serious spring fever - I blame it on the start of baseball season.
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(more like "the boys of summer" in my case)
It took on a whole new meaning for me for several summers in a row when "the boys of summer" moved in as my neighbors. :)
last evening i sat on the porch and heard my son playing "hotel california" in his room while just laying there. i had forgotten what a good song that was and what killer guitar it had in it.
Kevin, have you heard the Gipsy Kings' version? It blows the Eagles' version out of the water, IMHO.
Aw, Sally, you seem to go through stages with this insomnia thing. So maybe it will help for you to remember that it is a phase, and settle into it, knowing it will be over in a week or so.I keep waking up far too early, and I can't fall back asleep because I think I should get up and accomplish something. Which is ridiculous because then I'm too tired to accomplish a thing, except plan my nap. Gah.
Are you getting enough physical activity (in the broadest sense of the word), Sally? I find that too much headwork leaves me tossing and turning. Not that I mind, because I think sleep is grossly overrated. If I didn't need to sleep, I wouldn't.My wife does four or five intercontintental flights a month. Although I have seen and felt the consequences at close quarters, I still cannot fully fathom what that kind of jet-whacking must be like.
Oh wow, RA, that must destroy her! Just when she's adjusting she has to fly overseas again. It takes awhile for the soul to catch up with the body when flying. :D
What does your wife do?
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I'm a super active sleeper anyway, talking and kicking, and often waking myself on the verge of sleepwalking. So I think the "don't try to fight sleep" part of that prescription wouldn't work for me.
My wife is a special ed teacher, Lori. But I think you're talking to Richard, as special education teaching tends not to require too much intercontinental flying:)
I'm not sure what RA's wife does, but my wife is an air hostess, Lori. Her last three flights were to Nigeria, Curacao and Delhi.
It sounds fab, Heidi, but imagine being woken up in the middle of the night, half asleep, to go to your favourite restaurant, where you're expected to serve 400 annoying guests.
I'm more of a night person. I could deal with that.Now if you said I'd have to serve breakfast in the wee hours of the morning, that'd be a whooooole other story.
Richard, she sure goes to some great places! I imagine she doesn't really have the opportunity to spend time there, tho.
It varies, Lori. She's usually away for three nights, but at least one of those is spent flying. If she flies west, she has more time to spend sightseeing. She doesn't like flying eastward, because the jetlag is worse.She also saw New York, Lima and Teheran in recent months. I think it would freak me out.
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Oh, that might make me cranky (the 3 meals, I mean).
She's a purser, so she doesn't actually have to hand out trays, but she does have to deal with the madness that invariably erupts when you cram 400 souls into a vibrating cylinder from which there is no escape.
They should hand out benadryl and sudafed liberally.
I'm sure they'd be a real treat in combination with all the free booze.
At least people would be quiet. Very quiet.
I love the psychology of the masses. hahahaI found one sleep aid that worked for me a few years ago, but for the life of me I can't remember the name & can't find it online. It turned off the brain impulses that cause the hyperactive brain syndrome, and it also helped restless leg stuff which often happens simultaneously. But, I could actually wake up in the morning on it (my most hated side-effect - I can't wake up normally).
I think I must have dreamed about it. :\
heidi - thanks for the Gipsy Kings version. very cool. i love latin music. when i am in central america i live for this kind of stuff. also i am crazy about mariachi music.
Gipsy Kings!!! Flamenco makes me soooo happy (The Vicky Cristina Barcelona soundtrack is high on my list of "to get... stat."). Kevin, I'll bet you've heard some great samplings of interesting local music in your travels. :)
yup. especially in street fairs and festivals. i always buy CD's when they have them available or shoot video. when i was india in february i really got a better appreciation for indian music. much more passionate and soulful than it initially sounds.
Sally wrote: ""You could be an ♫air♫♫ ♪♫ ♪hostess♫ from the sixties! Woo hoo!""You could be a part-time model...
Sherri - we have the same problem, Richard is such a restless sleeper! We now have one of those no-movement King-sized mattresses, and it's heaven. BTW we've had a King forever, 25 years, and whenever we go away, if they don't have Kings, we try to get twins. Queens are tiny compared to a King!
Ah yes, the beloved King-sized mattress. I too have this problem. I can sleep through a death-metal rock concert in our bedroom, but one twitch from my husband (he's a leg kicker - like a dog dreaming of chasing cats at full speed) and I shoot straight up into full wakefulness.
On the other hand, he hears every little sqeek of the floorboards or click of a clock, and I snore (well, I did - now I get to wear a snorkel hose at night). We are def a matched pair.
I wonder if it's a kinesthetic vs. auditory persona thing.
ooooh yes the snores. Richard does that as well, so loud you can hear him from across the house, it's so charming to sleep with him! I jam earplugs in as far as possible.
There is (almost) nothing else that can piss you off in the middle of the night than a loud, annoying, repetative snorer. The worst is when you wake up mad, but know you can't do anything because they aren't doing it on purpose, then they stop only to immediately begin just as you finally calm down & drift off again.
cosmic sher - i think that was an opening for a comment from you
Bwaahaha! Sherri - I just had this vivid visual of you & your husband in bed with his leg tied up, and the entire bed shaking like an earthquake with you hanging onto the bedpost screaming like a banshee. heeeee!
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