Here Today... Gone To Hell!

There was a previous thread about sleep called Sleeping Habits but this one's a bit different. I didn't fall asleep until 1 a.m. last night and I feel like shit compared to when I usually fall asleep at 11 or 12.

So, my question is, do people here feel a lot different when they get less sleep?

Like getting mad easier? Running out of energy faster? More paranoid?

Cause that's how I feel.

Well, I?ve taken one day off from work for tomorrow, to collect some inspiration (as a news-reporter).

Those nights when I work I go to bed 21.00.
When I?m free, whenever!  : ok:


I feel like shit if I don?t get eight or nine hours of sleep.

And tonight, well, I?ll stay up all night!

For oe half a semester last year i had bad insomnia and in case u dont know what taht is its a sleping disorder and i was always tired always at school. I would have 3 hours a night max but then it got worse when i started taking sleep pills haha

I usually fall asleep at 5 or 6 in the morning  ;D

...but if I sleep 6 hours a night I'm ok...fresh and ready to start a new day  : ok:

Ur lucky .. i need about 8 to be completely fresh but on sat and sun i ussually go about 10 just to be sure  :rofl:

Same here, I think your body eventually get's used to it.

I usually get between 6 and 7 hours of sleep a night.  I hit bed around 12 and I get up between 6:30 and 7. (damn work).

I just find that I generally don't have any energy and I can be very irritable most of the time.  Maybe I should sleep more.  ;)

Whoa!!!!!!!
I can't believe someone actually understands me!
That's exactly what's been happening to me.

My stress level is high and I can't do anything about it. The harder I try, the harder it gets. I usually sleep at 1am, if I go to bed earlier I won't be able to sleep, I'll just think about stuff and not sleep until it's like 1am, 2am... And I wake up at 7am.

I'm a night owl, always have been...unfortunalely the rest of the world isn't, so I have to get up at inhuman hours (like 9 :rofl:)

As much as I love sleeping, I love staying up even more.  Everything seems to be more fun at night, even if it's just watching anime or playing XBox.  Tonight i'm working on an essay, so it'll probably be another ultra late one for me.  I'd love a proper night's sleep soon but i've got the easter holidays to look forward to for that. : ok:

the more i sleep, the more lethargic i feel. Also, i can't sleep well at night and sleep better when everyone is awake.
Also, have problems sleeping all alone, am usually scared. ( yeah, laugh, i know)...

erM...

I'm a terrible sleeper. The more I know I have to get some sleep the harder it is to do so. 6 hours usually does fine for me during the week, but that's only because I lie awake for so long. Infact, when I go to bed is when my mind is most active. However, at weekends I catch up bigtime! Now that i'm super old (25), I find I need more sleep after a night out etc.

I cry easily.  Things that normally wouldn't bother me will really hurt my lil feelings.   :'( 

I like alot of sleep though, atleast 8 hrs.   : ok:

I need at least 7 hours of sleep to get through the day now.  Just a few short years ago, I could go to sleep at 1:00 am and make it through the day just fine on 5 hours.   Not only do I need more sleep but it's harder to get to sleep.  Now, I can be tired as hell....to the point where tears stream from my eyes and still not be able to get to sleep.  So now, I take Tylenol PM or Simply Sleep (over the counter sleep aids) almost nightly to be able to go to sleep. Without sleep, I'm impatient with the kiddies at school and a bitch at home. 

It's hell getting older.  If this keeps up, I'll be going to bed at 8 o'clock to feel like I've got enough rest.   :hihi: 

Another thing...now on the weekends when I COULD sleep late...I'm awake by 7:00 but not fit for a thing 'cause I'm still tired feeling.   :-\

There are countless studies that show you need good quality sleep, if not your health will suffer, along with having problems concentrating on tasks, and being moody.  There is even evidence to suggest that many childhood cases of ADHD are actually caused by poor sleep habits.  Most people need 6-8 hours of sleep a night.  I function best on 8.

The worst is chronic sleep deprivation.  When my daughter was born, she had a rough time sleeping for the first year, so of course I didn't sleep much either.  I ended up getting very sick again and again.  My immune system basically got weakened from the chronic lack of sleep. 

I think sleep is more important than most people realize.  Seriously, if most people got good sleep every night (no tv on!!) and drank enough water, they would see a huge improvement in their overall health, mood, and energy level.

If i get less than 7 a night- im not a nice person to deal with- every little aggravation becomes amplified >:(

this sucks b/c ive had a sleeping disorder for 3 years, and need to take meds to get to sleep-without it, i might get 3 hours a night-which obviously can lead to a whole bunch of problems when i have to interact with people.

I got a good nights sleep last night. Usually I don't since I have sex every night, but now we did that earlier.

Anyway I had a period when I slept like 4 hours a night and stayed awake with cofeine pills.

As soon as my head hits the pillow, I'm gone. Usually if I have uni/work the next day, I go to bed at about 10.30-11.00pm or so, and usually I get like 8-9 hours sleep. If it's Friday or Saturday night though and we're having a big one, I go to bed whenever, or I don't go to bed at all.

I hate sleeping in any later than 10am... if I get up later than 10 I feel like the whole day is wasted.

Me to, I always get up from 7 to 9 A.M.

6-8 hours and Im fine. 5 hours is ok if I crash for half an hour in the afternoon. 9-10 hours is too much and I get a stiff neck and a headache.
I usually get 6-7 hours on weekdays, 7 is perfect. and 8 hours on weekends.

If I get less then 8 hours sleep per night for a few days, I'll get sick. Always.

A terrible consequence of University and the student life has left me unable to function on less than 9-10 hrs sleep - less than that i'm virtually comatose, its a bit of a problem.

At uni i used to sleep 14 hrs a day....i'm now addicted to sleep :nervous:

The older I get, the more I'm not becoming a morning person.  :hihi:

I'm a nocturnal person, as I think nightime helps me to concentrate on whatever I am doing at the moment. Hence, I like being up on odd hours. Unfortunately it's hard to get by with your everyday life while you're staying up all night. Therefore I often go to bed around 7-8 pm and wake up around 3-4 am. Plenty of time to enjoy the night and I get a head start of the day.

What, me weird?  :hihi:

i'm always shattered.

Same here , I need about a half an hour to wake up in the morning. That means first a cup of fresh hot coffee and a sigaret then I can safely wake up the kids. Otherwise I feel like shit.

i usually sleep 12-13h a night... i can get though a day fine with 8-10 anythin less than that ill make it but when the day is over its off to sleep!!! but thats now.. durrin the summer i get into a routine of like 3-4h of sleep a night for the 8weeks i work at day camp and thats just fine with me!

The older I get, the more I seem to need.  I figure that by the time I'm 60, I'll never get out of bed.  :hihi:

I don't mind my age.

But it's when my body reminds me of it that bothers me............and I get little reminders all the time.

I have insomnia.  Its horrible!!

I don't mind my age either - it's just that 4-5 hrs isn't cutting it anymore.  I need more like 7 or 8.

I always watch a movie or tv-serie before I'll go to sleep (very rare night if I don't).. Most viewed: American Pie 1/2/3, Wayne's World's, Band Of Brothers and The Simpsons. I'll never get enough of those :hihi: After that, I'll read something.. usually it's Donald Duck : ok: When it's 00-01 o' clock, I try to sleep. And if it's school day I'll wake up 7am.. It's not enough sleep for me, but what can I do? 8)

Tonight I'll hopefully get some sleep, got a prescription for sleeping medicine today.

I've been having trouble with sleeping for the past 3-4 weeks now, I cant fall asleep unless I'm tired but now I got subconscious stress and because of that it's very hard to fall asleep even when I'm very tired and feeling weak, after I've fallen asleep I sleep very poorly and wake up many times during the night. I had the same kind of "period" a few years ago and after couple of weeks it/this ain't very funny anymore.

It's a weird feeling after the tiredness and the "cant stop laughing" feeling have gone and you get into the "surreal/psycho" feeling.

So I've decided to revive this thread since I'm going a bit insane from lack of sleep. 

For the past couple months, my insomnia is getting worse and worse. I feel I need a full 8 hours of sleep to feel refreshed and energetic for the day. I've tried everything, nothing seems to work. Tylenol PM worked, but I didn't want to rely on pills to help me sleep and sex just makes me more awake.

Sunday night I got 4 hours of sleep, and last night I got zero. I have to get up for work at 5:30am, and today I left early to try get some rest. I feel exhausted right now, but by no means could fall asleep. So tonight I'm going back to the pills because I'm desperate for some sleep. A Xanax should do the trick.

It sounds strange, but drinking hot milk sometimes helps induce sleep.

 have you tried counting sheep?

  1. Lie down on your bed or chair and close your eyes.
   2. Imagine a night sky, with small, white stars, and a crescent moon. Or, imagine a day sky, with a small, green hill, full of short, green grass.
   3. Imagine a white fence right across the hill.
   4. Visualize white, fluffy, plump sheep.
   5. Imagine the sheep jumping over the white fence, one by one, one after another without stopping.
   6. Visualize this over and over again, counting, "1.. 2.. 3.. 4.. 5.. 6.." softly. Some people prefer to count in their mind, others out loud - this is up to you.
   7. Drift off to sleep gently. If you get sidetracked and the worrying thoughts return, take stock and return to counting the sheep.


http://www.wikihow.com/Count-Sheep

I don't want to promote drug use or anything like that. But if you take .25mg of Xanax right before bed, your mind won't be racing anymore. You may still be thinking of the things that are keeping you up, but you won't give a shit and you'll be able to fall asleep. Works wonders for me.

I am a home maker, but don't get me wrong when I say that, cause my life is so full doing this, it wears me out.  House cleaning, laundry, kids, dogs, cats, frogs, cooking, grocery shopping, bill paying not to mention husband and anything else that comes my way.
I am an early riser anywhere from 4am to 5am, I have to wake up as these are the most quiet moments where I can have alone time, once I have gotten my day underway and all is calm, a 3 hour nap may be in order about noon.  I am usually in bed by about 9 pm and fast asleep within a half hour.
Sleep is not an issue for me, I can do it on command if tired, I rarely ever cannot go to sleep, it would take a pretty huge issue to keep me awake lol.  If I am tired sleep prevails over all, otherwise that old famous broom I used to love so much just may have to come out of retirement.

how about listening to no quarter or prostitute. those songs should heal your mind.

If I listen to Prostitute, I'm going to want to listen to the other songs too!

if you listen to no quarter?

the 10 min version should make a good lullaby.  i hear on some boots it lasts more than half an hour.

feel asleep listening to CD from maddie and onwards, after the last song it starts over from the start, woke the fuck up when SR started playing  :hihi: :crying: