andrewducker | (no subject)

I suck at sleeping.

Well, to be honest, once I go to bed I'm pretty darn good at it. Barring the odd snoring rhinocerous or early-morning lawnmowing I can happily fall asleep in 17 seconds and stay that way all night.

But when it comes to going to bed I really do suck.

I hate abandoning anything that's going on and heading off to bed. It's not so bad if Erin's going too, because at least that way I'll have someone to talk to. But if she's still up and chatting (or even worse, gone to bed hours before) then I can end up sitting at my desk doing pretty much anything to avoid going to bed.

Being tired, if anything, makes it worse. I've been knackered for about two weeks and couldn't get the enthusiasm to go to bed. Last night I finally forced myself out at 11-ish, fell asleep within 5 minutes and looked forward to getting 10 hours of sleep.

Which meant that waking up at 5:30 with toothache was just a tad annoying. I seem to have been grinding my teeth, possibly because I was eating sweet things last night to stay awake through the film.

I got back to sleep at around 8:00 and slept through to 11:00, which still left me feeling much more awake than I have done in ages.

More sleep to come, until I feel fully human again.

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I have no problem going to bed, in fact i have a network connection and a TV in my bedroom so often come in from work and go straight to my bedroom.

I am *so* glad someone else gets this. If Caitlin goes to bed before I'm tired, I am doomed to staying awake, exhausted and in pain and usually deeply depressed, until stupid o'clock - eg this morning I finally crawled into bed at about 5.20am, and this was only because Caitlin got up to go to the loo and I made her promise to stay awake till I'd cleaned my teeth and whatnot.
I, too, suck at sleeping.
AND THEN PEOPLE PHONE UP AT 9AM AND HANG UP WHEN THEY HEAR YOUR VOICE grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

You really should have a word with Susan, one thing she never has a problem with is going to bed. Perhaps you could steal some DNA and like a bad science fiction movie splice it into yours and create the incredible sleeping Andy.

I have similar problems. Sometimes I just don't want to go to bed. It's almost as if I fear going to bed, or waking up. I can tired, exhausted, falling asleep on the couch, but I just keep reading or watching tv.

I very much want to sleep, I crave it, I need to sleep, but I won't. At least not until about 4am or so.

I'm trying to break that habit.

Ekatarina

Hah - another similarity rears its head.

Somehow, though I've slept till 12 the last two days and I still feel (and look, bags under eyes you could store sugar in :-) really tired : I think quality of sleep has something to do with it as well as quantity. I once had a conversation with a shrink about this in which he admitted taht sleep post many drinks was probably more like a coma than sleep in terms of recuperative value...

Alcohol supresses REM sleep. Not a good idea at all.

Read here:
http://www.jrussellshealth.com/alcsleep.html

NOT my problem at all. I love going to bed, sleeping is one of my (few) healthy pleasures. I like sleeping and I like going to bed. I even did as a kid (my parents were SO lucky, in that at least. Oh and I always ate all of my dinner too and wasn't a fussy eater. Of course I was loud and messy and angry etc...)

Sleep is the magic thing that makes the world seem all alright when you get enough and all wrong when you don't.