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Does anybody else suffer insomnia or some other sleep related weirdnesses? I'm curious to see how many people think that their sleep pattern isn't quite normal, because I'm unconvinced that people necessarily -do- have a neat sleeping pattern, and that outside things like jobs and school are what structures waking hours, and without them, people would be a lot more erratic about when they sleep. Typically I'll drift about 1 hour a night left undisturbed, so I'll go from sleeping at midnight to 4am very quickly. I'm also exceptionally capable of falling asleep anywhere, sometimes involuntarily. Waiting rooms, floors, my chair and onto my keyboard, are all potential places for a nap. There are also a few other factors that alter my sleeping pattern such as my deep hatred of sleep that encourages me to put it off until I physically can't.

So now. How does the rest of NSG sleep? And as a secondary question, do you -like- sleeping?

It's 9:30 AM here and I still haven't slept. :p

I mostly sleep pretty normally nowadays, but I had very bad insomnia for a couple of years due to PTSD. I had to sedate the heck out of myself every night just to sleep at all. No fun.

I mostly sleep pretty normally nowadays, but I had very bad insomnia for a couple of years due to PTSD. I had to sedate the heck out of myself every night just to sleep at all. No fun.

I'm getting to that stage. Vaguely similar causation too, maybe the same but I'm not sure. I'm going to the doctors about sleeping pills at any rate. Mainly my not getting to sleep has more benign roots though, mainly me just not wanting to stay still long enough for me to fall asleep when I can be up, doing other stuff!

I have periodic bouts where I feel wired all the time and can't sleep more than two or three hours a night (and napping is also out of the question).
For the most part, however, my sleeping patterns are naturally regulated. I pass out at around 2 AM, whatever is going on, and am up by 8, whether I intended to sleep in or not.

I have periodic bouts where I feel wired all the time and can't sleep more than two or three hours a night (and napping is also out of the question).
For the most part, however, my sleeping patterns are naturally regulated. I pass out at around 2 AM, whatever is going on, and am up by 8, whether I intended to sleep in or not.

I could live with a sleeping pattern like that. I try and do 4-6am til 10-12am when possible.

Currently I'm on a 9-10AM to 5-6 PM sleeping time, but it just keeps on moving forward!

I'm not insomniac, I just don't need much sleep. I usually sleep about six hours once every 3 days give or take.

I could literally sleep all day, if I just stay in bed in the morning, but if I stay up till 7 pm, I'm fucked. Mostly because I wake up constantly in the night...always have, even before kids. I'm a ridiculously light sleeper. You know the sound your clock radio makes before it goes off? Yeah. That wakes me up. Someone walking? I'm awake. A mouse farts? I'm up. I HATE it.

Seven pm rolls around, I get my second wind and I can't sleep until midnight, sometimes one or two in the morning. Then I get up at 6 and am exhausted all day. My sleep patterns have been fucked up as long as I can remember, and I've tried a million different non-pharmaceutical ways to get to sleep. I lay there for an hour, two hours, sometimes three trying to fall asleep.

I'm afraid I don't have insomnia. The opposite in fact, I can sleep anywhere, anytime and don't expect me to wake up either. I can sleep through thunderstorms, trains, the apocalypse, you name it.

Seven pm rolls around, I get my second wind and I can't sleep until midnight, sometimes one or two in the morning. Then I get up at 6 and am exhausted all day. My sleep patterns have been fucked up as long as I can remember, and I've tried a million different non-pharmaceutical ways to get to sleep. I lay there for an hour, two hours, sometimes three trying to fall asleep.

What about Marathon sex? That usually knocks my ass out. However I am a guy and we are built that way.

I'm afraid I don't have insomnia. The opposite in fact, I can sleep anywhere, anytime and don't expect me to wake up either. I can sleep through thunderstorms, trains, the apocalypse, you name it.


Well you know how you will die. Quietly in your sleep.

I'm not insomniac, I just don't need much sleep. I usually sleep about six hours once every 3 days give or take.

Meth does that. :p

Well you know how you will die. Quietly in your sleep.

No, I'm afraid not. See the thing is, when I'm not sleeping it's usually doing something incredibly dumb. I'm the kind of person who, if not safe asleep, would be riding the shopping cart off the roof.

No, I'm afraid not. See the thing is, when I'm not sleeping it's usually doing something incredibly dumb. I'm the kind of person who, if not safe asleep, would be riding the shopping cart off the roof.

You see life is funny. What you think will happen doesn't. Life has a way of pulling a fast one here and there.

You see life is funny. What you think will happen doesn't. Life has a way of pulling a fast one here and there.

Oh yes, I know all about that. :tongue:

My sleep schedule has been fucked for a few years. I stay awake 72ish hours, then sleep for 14, then awake for 36 hours, then sleep for 9, then awake for 50 hours, then asleep for 18......and so on.

It's regulated a bit more now that I've moved, I haven't been "up" for more than 36 hours more than 9-10 times this year. (I moved last spring, but had other things going on, when I'm stressed I don't need as much sleep.....)

What about Marathon sex? That usually knocks my ass out. However I am a guy and we are built that way.

I get sleepy when I cum, yes but still. I'm sure I'll get used to sleeping with GoG, but with our monthly visits, I always have a hard time sleeping that first night at least even after a marathon session. I have to be beyond exhausted for the slightest thing not to wake me up :(

I tend to have a rough time of it, but I think that's one of the reasons I hang around NS. So... yeah, I think you may have a confounding problem with your data already.

I tend to have a rough time of it, but I think that's one of the reasons I hang around NS. So... yeah, I think you may have a confounding problem with your data already.

I did suspect that might happen but I'm hardly being -super scientific- here. Just curious more than anything.

I'm reading a nice book that happens to talk a good bit about sleep cycles and the circadian clock - "Sync," by Steven Strogatz (who also wrote one of the textbooks I used in the fall). I know I'll wrap myself around the clock very easily if I'm not careful. Left to my own, I'll tend to go down a little past dawn.

I did suspect that might happen but I'm hardly being -super scientific- here. Just curious more than anything.

christ isn't it like almost 6am over there?

christ isn't it like almost 6am over there?

5:36am currently. I woke at 8:30pm after finally falling asleep at midday.

5:36am currently. I woke at 8:30pm after finally falling asleep at midday.

ahh a life of domestic servitude and adjustable schedules.

Lucky bitch.

Not so much the servitude part though...but eh if it works for ya.

ahh a life of domestic servitude and adjustable schedules.

Lucky bitch.

Not so much the servitude part though...but eh if it works for ya.

oh, no, that's tomorrow. I have adjustable schedules because I'm unemployed for totally... different reasons that I didn't make this thread for.

ahh a life of domestic servitude and adjustable schedules.

Lucky bitch.

Not so much the servitude part though...but eh if it works for ya.

I dispute the idea that domestic servitude doesn't make one lucky. :p

I dispute the idea that domestic servitude doesn't make one lucky. :p

well, you would.

Get me a sandwich.

well, you would.

Get me a sandwich.

Yes, yes I would.

And didn't you just have dinner? *makes leftover pasta sandwich* :p

And didn't you just have dinner?

Are you arguing with me?

oh, no, that's tomorrow. I have adjustable schedules because I'm unemployed for totally... different reasons that I didn't make this thread for.

you know, for a while I was unemployed. About a month. And if I knew I was going to get a job at the end of it, it would have been a pleasant vacation. But the vacation you don't know when it's ending is a rough one to get in a groove with.

Are you arguing with me?

Hey, I made the sandwich, didn't I? It's a bit weird, but then, you seem to like weird. ;)

Hey, I made the sandwich, didn't I?

Good girl.

It's a bit weird, but then, you seem to like weird. ;)

Keeps things interesting.

you know, for a while I was unemployed. About a month. And if I knew I was going to get a job at the end of it, it would have been a pleasant vacation. But the vacation you don't know when it's ending is a rough one to get in a groove with.

I'll put it this way - if I wasn't living in south wales it would be a lot closer to ending, but then I lost my house and access to all the varied mental health services that were helping me, and guess what! I can't get access to any of them in this hellhole of an area. So I take the insomnia. At least it's quiet and peaceful in the early hours of the morning. :)

erk. I apologise for the thankfully self-arrested beginnings of an attentiony-seeky ramble.

I'm a sufferer to. I sleep well about one day out of the week and its because I'm so exhausted I can't move. Generally I sleep about 5 hours a day starting at around noon.