Trouble going to bed?

[andy]

Anybody else get this?

Im sat here at 1:10am knowing i have to be at work for 8.30am, but still i dont want to go to bed. i find any excuse to put it off, even when im really tired.

[int]

Many a night I'm sitting here at 3 am and my wife will come down asking me when I'm coming to bed. Sometimes I just wish she wouldn't and would leave me to pass out in my chair with the TV on.

[andy]

i know how you feel but if i was to sit here now untill i passed out it would be around 7-8am before it happened. i have this feeling that i havent done enough or had enough time to myself. a sort of incompleteness that i cant satisfy and thats what keeps me up

[flan2dave]

Try reading a book in bed. I can never stay up indefinitely doing this (as opposed to browsing the net).

[Boneca]

04:17. Yeah, maybe I have trouble too...:D

I wonder what time zone corresponds with my mind? Perhaps I should move to Australia or something.

[Network Alchemy]

use alcohol and become homeless

[Solo]

I can never fall asleep. I can lay in my bed for hours just thinking. I go to bed at midnight(M-F) knowing I have to wake up at six and I just lay there for an hour or two thinking of nothing important.

[Aryan]

Often i have browsed this forum at midnight as late as 4:00 hrs
Of course, the next day its 10:00 am when i am brushing my teeth ( sometimes i dont even brush , ughh... bad breath... nice thing that i m posting not speaking this...) ^.^

[SheepDog]

I stay up until my eyes are too tired to stay open. That's usually reading, since I get bored of the internet after a while, and I don't watch TV.

I have dozens of unread books, so finding something to read is never a problem.

Personally, I don't mind not being able to sleep. I prefer not sleeping for the most part.

[jimkopelli]

I usually go to bed around 12. Falling asleep is another matter. If I have to stay up, I do, though... but not usually unless I have to or have a good reason.

[Hypnos]

I have fibromyalgia/CFS, so falling asleep is always tenuous.

But I find the following exacerbates the problem:

* I haven't had enough "downtime" in the day (e.g., time away from people)

* I am dissatisfied with work of whatever I've done during the day, and feel like my life passed me by that day

* Am procrastinating, esp. when not looking forward enthusiastically to the next day

[Claverhouse]

Yes. Helas I feel most alive around now ( 1am ). I would sleep til noon ( There was a book called that ) if I could...

Which is why I ( birthday 14th ) now having an 80GB HD ( Maxtor unfortunately, been a lot of problems recently ) am about to try and set up with 10 partitions on a P2 233 running WIN98SE. If I tried to do it in the day I'd make mistakes !



Claverhouse

[codeElemental]

I seem to do the same thing. I'm usually up until 2-3 am most nights, until sheer exhaustion catches up with me. I've caught a lot of flack for ending up asleep on the couch instead of ever going to bed lately.

[Arioch]

It's 5:52am right now. I'm still not asleep.

I actually tend to sleep every other night these days.
So relatively speaking you have nothing to complain about.

[athman]

I make myself go to bed by midnight because i have to get up early just about every day (kids, work, training, there's always something) I really look forward to those rare times when i have no commitments, then its immediately back to the 2am-3am habits.

Only 23 years to retirement, then i'll really cut loose. The same crap will still be on late nite cable tv by then anyway so I won't miss out on much. Hey, wow, another repeat of 'Friends', woopeee.

[Warrior413]

Usually I go to sleep at 2:00 am... but right now it's 3:00 am.... sleep is boring anyway. Keep telling yourself that.

[gypseymothlee]

I can never get to sleep. I always feel like there is something better to be doing with my time. Six hours a night is the average, 3 or 4 is tolerable. I used to pull all nighters at school all the time.

[Arioch]

I have fibromyalgia/CFS, so falling asleep is always tenuous.

But I find the following exacerbates the problem:

* I haven't had enough "downtime" in the day (e.g., time away from people)

* I am dissatisfied with work of whatever I've done during the day, and feel like my life passed me by that day

* Am procrastinating, esp. when not looking forward enthusiastically to the next day


I wonder if making lists could help with procrastionation

[inignot]

I wonder if making lists could help with procrastionation
I will put that on my list of things to do...tomorrow. =P

[Dengarm]

always. for example i didn;t go to sleep at all last nigh. sleeping during the day is easy though.

[andy]

sleep is boring anyway. Keep telling yourself that.

i dont need to i already know that! i feel more tired when ive had a good amount of sleep rather than a small amount of sleep. and if i sleep in till 12, i feel guilty for wasting so much time sleeping. the only bad thing about not sleeping properly is that i find i get hotter much easier, which is annoying

[heeroyuy]

I find that I have finite sleeping lengths:

< 4 hours of sleep - I'm totally aware awake and alright.
> 4 hours but < 8 hours - I'm groggy, tired, irritable, and annoyed.
> 8 hours - I'm totally aware awake and alright.

Sleep I can neglect, until I get something done. I sleep alot better knowing I accomplished _something_. Anything at all that's the least bit neat, cool, or new to me. Be this a program, finishing a philosophy book, having an enthusing debate...etc. Anything at all.

I dunno, maybe I'm just too tired and not thinking :) It's not in the project, it's in knowing I did something new, I learned something. It completes me I guess.

[Zero Angel]

Sleep is negotiable for me. Some people would probably judge me as lazy when they come to my house at 2PM on weekends and i'm still sleeping, but they probably dont realize that I stayed awake until 9AM working on something that fascinates me.

Or they might find it odd that I'm going to bed at 8 this day, but may not realize that I got up at 4 in the morning, blasted my tunes, and watched a beautiful sunrise.

Sleep is somewhat negotiable on weekdays too. I might stay up until 5:00AM and try to get up at 7:30 (and fail) and end up missing work in the morning (and staying till 6). Nobody at my job seems to care, because I perform my job adequately regardless of my odd schedule.