Didn't Sleep Last Night...

DOOManiac · July 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">ack...</div>So I've been going to bed later and later every night, and sleeping in later and later as well..

Last night I didn't even go to sleep. I tried. I got in bed at 5am. 6am went by. then 7am. I would've just gotten up then but my mom hadn't gone to work yet and she would've been upset/overly concerned about me not sleeping. So after she left at 8:20, after just laying in bed for 3 hours trying to sleep but not being able to, I just got up.

I'm not the least bit tired at all, its freaky.

Marik_Steele · July 2003

If you're having trouble pulling your bedtimes backward, try going forward. Just go nocturnal for a bit. Keep up the usual of going to bed "later and later," and eventually you'll be back to normal human cycle of awake during the day.
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>Note: the above is probably medically disastrous, but I've been wanting to try it and having a guinea pig would be nice <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> </span>

Cereal_KillR · July 2003

Welcome to the club. Try not sleeping for a couple of days, sometimes it just comes back normally. You'll look horrible but you might sleep a couple of hours <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Codeman · July 2003

doom, the same thing had been happening to me all last week - i'd be going to bed at 5 or 6am and getting up after lying there for an hour or two, sometimes even getting up before anyone else in my house

it caught up with me eventually though, and i spent a whole day in bed ^_^

-- Codeman

Pulse · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marik_Steele @ Jul 23 2003, 07:22 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> If you're having trouble pulling your bedtimes backward, try going forward. Just go nocturnal for a bit. Keep up the usual of going to bed "later and later," and eventually you'll be back to normal human cycle of awake during the day.
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>Note: the above is probably medically disastrous, but I've been wanting to try it and having a guinea pig would be nice <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> </span>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
It works, every time I mess up my sleep schedule I do that, and it has yet to fail me, takes a while though (I can do it in 3 days now).

esuna · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Marik_Steele @ Jul 23 2003, 09:22 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> If you're having trouble pulling your bedtimes backward, try going forward. Just go nocturnal for a bit. Keep up the usual of going to bed "later and later," and eventually you'll be back to normal human cycle of awake during the day.
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>Note: the above is probably medically disastrous, but I've been wanting to try it and having a guinea pig would be nice <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> </span>  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
When i was unemployed i went through this same thing. In the end i was sleeping from about 10am - 6pm and sitting up gaming and watching anime through the small hours.

I also took up drinking heavily also.

This sucked.

The trick, really, is to not even think about it at all and just let it come naturally really. Don't force yourself to sleep.

DOOManiac · July 2003

Hmm.. I just seem to always have trouble falling asleep..

my mind tends to wander a lot and that's probably what keeps me up, but it also keeps me up trying NOT to let it wonder...

Wittman · July 2003

I used to be the one that stayed up till 3am and got up at noon or 1pm, then I worked a job for a little while where I had to get up at 4am to go work in a warehouse, my shift was from 5am till 1:30pm, then I'd have to go to bed at 10pm to get at least 6 hours of sleep. I feel like the average human should get around 9 hours of sleep each night. Anyways, I'm not working that job anymore, but I've gotten into the habit of where I go to bed at 11pm or midnight, and wake up around 8:30 or 9am. I like it to, more daylight.

TychoCelchuuu · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Codeman @ Jul 23 2003, 11:31 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> doom, the same thing had been happening to me all last week - i'd be going to bed at 5 or 6am and getting up after lying there for an hour or two, sometimes even getting up before anyone else in my house

it caught up with me eventually though, and i spent a whole day in bed ^_^

-- Codeman  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
That's weird, I've been having sleeping problems all this week. Barely got a wink last night. Must be that alien pre-invasion force and their mind probes.

...must play less X-COM.

Wittman · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TychoCelchuuu @ Jul 23 2003, 09:50 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Codeman @ Jul 23 2003, 11:31 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> doom, the same thing had been happening to me all last week - i'd be going to bed at 5 or 6am and getting up after lying there for an hour or two, sometimes even getting up before anyone else in my house

it caught up with me eventually though, and i spent a whole day in bed ^_^

-- Codeman </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
That's weird, I've been having sleeping problems all this week. Barely got a wink last night. Must be that alien pre-invasion force and their mind probes.

...must play less X-COM.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
what? how do you know about that? er, I mean, there are no alien invaders looming over cities across the globe undetected.

Wither · July 2003

Same thing keeps happening to me sadly. I log off, go to bed, stare at the ceiling for an hour, end up jumping out of bed and playing a game of NS, just to figure it's already 9 am and I end up going to bed the next night.

PerfectionsFlaw · July 2003

Clinical studies have been done, people mostly between the ages of 13-25, fall subject to certain effects of staying up past twenty four hours. These side effects include hyper-activity, non-drowsiness, muscle aches, and the ability to talk really fast while staying on subject and making your opinion verbally clear.

Not the exact words they used, but this happens to me. I like to refer to is as a lapse. When you're tired, go to sleep, tired as in you can't keep your eyes open not tired as you ache all over. If you don't go to sleep when you're tired then you are bound to stay up longer than you want or plan to. Because you will eventually lapse, so give in to the sleepiness or become an insomniac.

Definition of an insomniac: One whom suffers from a chronic inability to fall asleep or remain asleep for an adequate length of time. <b>(Not some porker who stays up all night and has trouble going to sleep in the morning! You're not insomniacs! You're just nocturnal!)</b> The previous was not directed toward DoomManiac or anyone else here, unless someone said they were an insomniac and I didn't read it.

dr_d · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Jul 23 2003, 09:17 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> So I've been going to bed later and later every night, and sleeping in later and later as well..

Last night I didn't even go to sleep. I tried. I got in bed at 5am. 6am went by. then 7am. I would've just gotten up then but my mom hadn't gone to work yet and she would've been upset/overly concerned about me not sleeping. So after she left at 8:20, after just laying in bed for 3 hours trying to sleep but not being able to, I just got up.

I'm not the least bit tired at all, its freaky.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Could this have anything to do with the fact that Doom 3 is delayed till 2004 and you are now horribly depressed?

Sorry couldn't resist <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

MrPink · July 2003

I have a theory about "banked sleep". If you have been getting over 9 hours of sleep the last week or so, you should be able to go a night without sleeping. I relized this a few weeks ago when I went on vacation. We left at about 4 am and I stayed up all night, in the car I wasn't even tired, didn't sleep at all that night and didn't feel a bit of fatique.

Dr_Shaggy · July 2003

I've been through this kind've thing too. I remember my first year of university, my friends and I had a couple stints of being nocturnal for a couple days in a row, especially around exam time. I tended to get too anxious before an exam and wouldnt be able to sleep before them, so I got pretty good at pulling the all-nighter and going to bed after the exam in the morning. This will really mess with your sleep schedule. I had a really bad experience with "wake-up" pills once because of this (they weren't just caffeine, apparently they were like herbal speed. The first one kept me up almost all night for the second night in a row but when it wore out, the second one had me racing around and my heart beating fast for like 6 hours).

I'm gonna have to recommend unplugging for awhile to get out of this habit Doom, the internet's a bugger for keeping you up like that. I know that feeling of not wanting to go to sleep for fear of missing something, or just the urge to "search" for more stuff. If you really want out of it, I can't recommend the "slowly bring schedule around" method cause I don't think it works all that well. The best way out of it, similar to getting better from jet lag, is to force yourself back into a good schedule. Eat your meals at all the "proper" times and get some Nyquil. Take the Nyquil around 10pm - 12am ,depending on what your schedule should be. One dose of Nyquil probably wont knock you out, but it will make you want to hit the sack when it starts kicking in.

Its one thing to stay up late sometimes, but missing sleep entirely is a bad habit to form.

hellokitty · July 2003

mm..warm milk and bed time story anyone?

^_^ [laughs]

RPG_Jssmfulhud · July 2003

Riiight... Or a plushy, for that matter. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

acer_r1 · July 2003

i read some where that masturbastion helps in going to sleep.............

AllUrHiveRblong2us · July 2003

Yeah sure. "Read". I always find that it's easier to go to sleep if you are in the middle of a bout of depression, but that's just me.

Moquiao · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (AllUrHiveRBelong2Us @ Jul 23 2003, 07:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Yeah sure. "Read". I always find that it's easier to go to sleep if you are in the middle of a bout of depression, but that's just me.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
not true lol last few weeks 'were' horrific for me lol and trust me it wasnt good for sleep lol

Starchy · July 2003

Easy to solve this. Just close your eyes and stay there! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Sounds easier that it is, but if you keep doing it, it will work!

CForrester · July 2003

The more you try to sleep, the more you stay up. Just lay in bed and play some soothing music. Let your mind wander. You'll eventually drift.

DOOManiac · July 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Scarface121 @ Jul 23 2003, 10:31 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I have a theory about "banked sleep". If you have been getting over 9 hours of sleep the last week or so, you should be able to go a night without sleeping. I relized this a few weeks ago when I went on vacation. We left at about 4 am and I stayed up all night, in the car I wasn't even tired, didn't sleep at all that night and didn't feel a bit of fatique.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Actually medical & psychiatric have proven just the opposite, that sleep is NOT a bank. You can't just put 4 hours in one day and put in 12 the next and expect to be fine. That'll screw you up.

Quaunaut · July 2003

I have the sure fire thing right here.

Drink A LOT of milk.

Then drink a glass of orange juice.

Lastly, spend 1 hour on the computer(to let it sit). Then, go to the bathroom(or do it before the 1 hour). Believe it or not, you'll get REALLY tired from the ****.

Good luck.

TenSix · July 2003

What the hell....um...anyway, getting away from that wonderful piece of advice, just take some Tylenol PM or Nyquil. Double he dose if need be.

Forlorn · July 2003

Try exercising. If you get yourself physically tired, you should have no problems with sleeping.

Go run 5 miles, I <b>guarentee</b> results. You will be so pooped, you will fall asleep as soon as you lay down on your couch.

Vyvn · July 2003

I sometimes have trouble getting to sleep, especially when I'm going to bed kinda early (like anytime before midnight). But I also have a problem of falling asleep when I shouldn't, like during class, at the table / desk, during movies, when I need to finish homework, etc. So my solution to having trouble getting to sleep is to find a place where I shouldn't be sleeping, and go lie down.

I also find that for some reason, I fall asleep easier when I'm lying on the wrong end of my bed without any covers and still wearing my day clothes. This also makes it easier to wake up in the morning, sometimes. Maybe it's because it's more of a relaxed situation, and I feel like I'm not trying to drift off. It just comes.

Diablus · July 2003

its ok DOOMmaniac ill protect you from the skulks in your closet with my Turrents, no worry

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