Insomniacs?

[trspballer7]

Anyone else here an insomniac? I technically am not, but right now it is 3:19 AM, here on the east coast (PA speciffically) and I am bored. I just finished watching Pulp fiction. I am not sure if it is worth trying to sleep because I have to "wake up" at 6 :30 anyway to get ready for school.

[uhrisuh]

meeeee!!! I can go a couple days without sleep!

[ciwi286]

I'm not technically insomniac but I just find it really hard to get to sleep usually ill be sitting in bed doing absolutely nothing till about 4-4:30

[trspballer7]

I doubt I could do that, but right now I am not sure weather or not I should go to sleep. Sometimes if I only sleep for an hour or so I get more tired...if that makes any sense.

[WesScog]

I don't have so much not being able to get to sleep, as much as I simply don't like pulling myself away from what i'm doing.

I'll just get really engrossed in watching or reading something, and then i'll glance at the clock, see it's almost 5 in the morning, and just finally decide, yea, I better get into bed if I want to get up before noon.

[chainedflesh]

Yeah.

I hate it. I get to sleep and an hour to two hours later I am awake again. I get maybe three or four hours of sleep per night.

My girlfriend researched it and found that this is actually a throwback to the time before electric lights. It used to be common for people to wake in the middle of the night and do some scavenging for food or watch for predators, later it became writing or reading by candlelight. Some people today just can't cast off that bit of genetic programming.

[WesScog]

Yeah.

I hate it. I get to sleep and an hour to two hours later I am awake again. I get maybe three or four hours of sleep per night.

My girlfriend researched it and found that this is actually a throwback to the time before electric lights. It used to be common for people to wake in the middle of the night and do some scavenging for food or watch for predators, later it became writing or reading by candlelight. Some people today just can't cast off that bit of genetic programming.

Yea, it's been theorized that some early human groups were polyphasic sleepers.

Where they would sleep a few hours, get up and do some work, then sleep for a few more hours.

But the shift towards a monophasic sleeping pattern in an industrial society makes sense, especially since it makes sense to synchronize your sleeping pattern to the majority of peoples sleeping patterns.

[jared]

right with you guys. i'm like a loris or an owl or something.

[ClayOgre]

I have trouble falling asleep. But whatever time I actually do fall asleep, you could about set a clock by what time I will wake up during the night, and I usually wake up twice.

I don't use an alarm clock to get up. Lately, it seems like I wake up at exactly 6:23 am every morning. (I have to be to work by 6:54 am, but I live right across the street from where I work).

[daydreamer1]

I have sleep problems as well.

[jawahunter]

I was diagnosed with insomnia about 3 years ago and put on some pretty strong medication for it. Thankfully I'm off the medication now but to get to sleep I now have to hit a wall of tiredness and once I do I become absouletely useless (this is a side effect of the drug). So I'm fixed. Kind of.

Nights where the insomnia come back however are Hell.

[BinBinProductions]

Sometimes i dont want to go to sleep, but when i do, i sleep for atleast 10 hours if I dont have to wake up at a certain time.

[Fisherking]

There's a vast difference between having insomnia and not sleeping well from time to time.

[UndergroundLairProductions]

I'm not really an insomniac, more of a night-owl... Though lately I've been losing sleep because my Xbox is in for repairs and I miss it :(