I Think I Have A Sleeping Disorder
DarkATi
Revelation 22:17 Join Date: 2003-06-20 Member: 17532Members, Reinforced - Shadow
Revelation 22:17 Join Date: 2003-06-20 Member: 17532Members, Reinforced - Shadow
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Very strange. I am indeed a very strange sleeper, yes.
I toss and turn (according to others, mind you.) grit my teeth, walk around, talk and sleep very very deeply.
Actually it isn't that I sleep deeply so much as I have the toughest time waking up. I willmany mornings vaguely remember being woken up by someone but not remember when, where or why. I wake up disoriented and sometimes my eyes are severely messed up. (Trouble opening them, itchy, trouble focusing or keeping them open for extended periods right fter awakening.)
And I'm starting to get kinda freaked out... like for instance, these two examples...
One day I wake up and feel pretty good. (Note that when I wake up on my own I feel uber refreshed and awake 9/10 times.) I go downstairs and my mom says to me, "I can't believe you ate those cherry turn-overs." Now after pinching myself thinking this is a dream I respond... "eh?"
She proceeds to tell me that she came into my room, asked me where the cherry turnovers were adn I spoke to her saying, "I ate them, they're in my belly!"
Now not only do I have no recollection of this but I DIDN'T eat the damn things, they were found in the back f our fridge.
But here's the worse one...
I am aware I have trouble waking up so I stucky alarm set for 9 on full blast underneath my bed, in my guitar case, with two of the latches latched, thinking I would HAVE to be coherent to undo the latches and turn the alarm off. WRONG.
I wake up at noon, the alarm is out of the case with the alarm turned off like I would have done. I don't remember it and I asked everyone, seriously, no jacking around, did you mess with my alarm, no one says they did. Now how the crap did I do that and not remember it, or how did I do it while not being fully conscious...?
Well, there's my story! I'm staying up all night tonight trying to get my hours straightened out and my finger hurts so I'm not gonna proof read this or anything, read it like it is!!!
Seriously though, any advice? Do I have a sleeping disorder of some kind?
~ DarkATi
I toss and turn (according to others, mind you.) grit my teeth, walk around, talk and sleep very very deeply.
Actually it isn't that I sleep deeply so much as I have the toughest time waking up. I willmany mornings vaguely remember being woken up by someone but not remember when, where or why. I wake up disoriented and sometimes my eyes are severely messed up. (Trouble opening them, itchy, trouble focusing or keeping them open for extended periods right fter awakening.)
And I'm starting to get kinda freaked out... like for instance, these two examples...
One day I wake up and feel pretty good. (Note that when I wake up on my own I feel uber refreshed and awake 9/10 times.) I go downstairs and my mom says to me, "I can't believe you ate those cherry turn-overs." Now after pinching myself thinking this is a dream I respond... "eh?"
She proceeds to tell me that she came into my room, asked me where the cherry turnovers were adn I spoke to her saying, "I ate them, they're in my belly!"
Now not only do I have no recollection of this but I DIDN'T eat the damn things, they were found in the back f our fridge.
But here's the worse one...
I am aware I have trouble waking up so I stucky alarm set for 9 on full blast underneath my bed, in my guitar case, with two of the latches latched, thinking I would HAVE to be coherent to undo the latches and turn the alarm off. WRONG.
I wake up at noon, the alarm is out of the case with the alarm turned off like I would have done. I don't remember it and I asked everyone, seriously, no jacking around, did you mess with my alarm, no one says they did. Now how the crap did I do that and not remember it, or how did I do it while not being fully conscious...?
Well, there's my story! I'm staying up all night tonight trying to get my hours straightened out and my finger hurts so I'm not gonna proof read this or anything, read it like it is!!!
Seriously though, any advice? Do I have a sleeping disorder of some kind?
~ DarkATi
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I go to bed NORMALLY around Midnight and get up at 8. I'm all messed up now but that's what I usually do, i.e what I was doing when the strange stories occured, lol.
~ DarkATi
On a side-note, it's possible to talk in your sleep. My family does it. All the time. I usually get responses from when they're sleeping....and they're not awake at all.
Strangely I rarely talk in my sleep. Am I really that different from everyone else in my family? o_O
As for the in mah belleh incident....ROFLMAO
EDIT : BTW, some of my friends sleep at 1 AM and wake up at 5 AM.....and strangely they don't display and abnormal behaviour....
Things you might wana try out:
1) Try going to sleep very early
2) set you alarm to go off with like 1/2 hr or 15 min intervals (that is the only way to actualy get me up, aside from a person making sure I stay awake)
I pesonaly just have problems if I am woken up by anytihng, unfortunatly if I am not woken up I wake up after I have to be at work ;(
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In fact, if you try to wake me up at such a time I'm probably dreaming about aliens blowing up the earth with a gigantic railgun, firing an asteroid at earth o_O
I actually dreamt that once....suddenly I was all 'Buh?!')
Don't forget if you are youngish, that teenagers (especially 14 to 18) need more sleep than any other age group, bar babies.
If you think you have a sleeping disorder, go to a doctor. They could say one of three things:
1) OMG HOSPITALISE QUICK! *AHEM* I mean, "I'll book you into a sleep patterns center for observation";
2) That is completely normal. Congratulations you are becoming a full fledged sleep-talking man. Now pay me money. Lots of money;
3) I'm not sure I'll refer you to specialist/sleep pattern clinic.
I am fully aware that 1 and 3 are very similar. One is slightly more frantic, though. Don't hurt me please!
EDIT: for grammar
There were, if I remember correctly, two cases where people killed others in a similar state. One got off the hook, the other is still in jail pleading his innocence.
Sleep is messed up. Nobody really knows what exactly it's for nor what purpose it truly serves.
Edit: And don't forget the dreams I have after about 3 hours sleep where I wake up from them. Like last night I dreamt 500+ spiders nested in my hair, then scurried out and began attacking me.
I have screwed up dreams like that every few days. :\
There were, if I remember correctly, two cases where people killed others in a similar state. One got off the hook, the other is still in jail pleading his innocence.
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~ DarkATi
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What annoys me most about my sleeping habits is that my body clock (or whatever you want to call it) seems to be out of sync with everyone else's. Unless I'm exhausted, I <i>can't</i> get to sleep before about 10:30 pm, and I find waking up before about 10 am particularly difficult. I wake up at 6:45 every week morning, and can barely keep my eyes open until about 8.
Sometimes I wake up and I think whatever scenario I'm dreaming about is still the case. That can be quite funny actually, although it usually just results in me being completely unable to understand the purpose of my alarm clock, or how to turn it off.
I was in the driveway.
So somehow, i had managed to open the front door, walk out onto the driveway, and presumably started craying as i was standing on gravel.
I have no recollection of the incident.
There was also a time when one member of the family(we still don't know who it was, and it was 6-8 years ago) covered loads of crap in vaseline, and another time, cut up a whole crapload of newspapers/magazines.
Never experienced any of that odd stuff, though.
Tell me when once woke from waking up
I have the ability to turn my alarm off while still asleep then wake up with no recolection of doing it which sucks cos it makes me late for work occasionaly.
The only solutions I have found is to either go to bed a lot earlier cos you obviously need more sleep but this isn't always possable for most people like myself.
The other solution (the one I use most) is to use 2 or more alarms and put them all well out of reach of the bed and in separate places and timed to go off within 15 minutes of each other to force me to get up an go turn them off. I'm currently on 4 alarms at the moment because I can turn the first 2 and sometimes 3rd off without even remembering it by the time the 4th one wakes me up proper.
edit I'm aware that i have to walk to get up an turn my alarms off while asleep but that's the limit of my sleep walking.
... once in a closet after almost locking myself in it.
... unscrewing a lightbulb out of a lamp that was turned off. Absolutely no idea why.
... walking around aimlessly in the living room - opposite end of the house.
I've also had to make a habit of placing the alarm clock FAR away from my bed. If I'm tired enough, I'll unconsciously shut it off.
My last and worst story was, I woke up one morning and my dad asked me some question about a conversation we apparently had. Turns out, we had this conversation at 2 am. He said I looked wide awake. I had walked out of my bedroom, chatted for a while, and went back to sleep. Funny thing is, I had absolutely no memory of it.
Since then, my dad has done a better job of realizing when me or my brothers are not conscious, but on the move. I've certainly caught my brothers walking around, similarly.
I think it runs in my family though, as my dad mentioned he used to sleepwalk when he was in the Air Force. Damn near got him shot by guards.
I get about 6 hours of sleep because of homework and just putting it off...
P.S. See a professional if it's really effecting your life. Asking advice on forums is a good source of terrible misinformation.
P.S.S. Sigmund Freud. Nuff said: <a href='http://www.psywww.com/books/interp/toc.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.psywww.com/books/interp/toc.htm</a>
The other thing I suggest is to exercise if you don't already. 30 minutes of fast walking will help you sleep.
I doubt anyone hasn't seen this already, but still......