i can't sleep

And not only for me but for my brother as well.

I can only hope evrything goes well for you.

I do hope you are all well.

to find self back in same place

3:40

Arrrrrrgh.

Since I'm in my last weeks of my pregnancy, I am now even more prone to sleeplessness (is that even a word?). On top of that Ophelia wakes up because of her cold. I can't look in the mirror in the mirror without nearly collapsing, I look ghastly due to sleep deprivation.

sleeplessness (is that even a word?).

Yes

strangely, i believe gareth was at his parents' place this past weekend as well

xpost This is also a problem that arises when you're pregnant: imploding brain mass. :-(

Avoid looking in mirrors in mirrors, nath! :)

i was just thinking about you nathalie, wondering how you were doing. good luck with everything:)

Doing okay, I guess. :-) Our colleague just delivered her baby (which was due around the same time) which resulted in a mild panic attack on my side. heh.

Xpost Fuck you! :-) Did I tell you guys I ordered 384 rolls of toilet paper? I think this baby is sucking all the brains out of my head! Thank god I could cancel the order. :-)

Did I tell you guys I ordered 384 rolls of toilet paper?

I'm sure I'd have remembered if you had!

Why could I not sleep last night?

1. I was worried about remembering an appointment at 3 p.m. (not like I wouldn't wake up on time wtf)
2. I had Randy Newman's "Simon Smith and His Amazing Dancing Bear" in my head on repeat, and that shit is not exactly a soporific

ever had nightmares so bad they made you wake up and vomit? that was a first.

;[

it is getting light out. wtf?!

bump

ugh

ew

wow and i thought i was bad

hey guys

Was reading something I wrote like 4 years ago and got all "damn why can't I write with that kind of passion anymore" and now I'm sitting here stewing.

i've had about 3-4 hrs sleep a night for last 10 days or so. you kinda get used to it after a while : /

gf keeps telling me i will get HEART DISEASE if i sleep a minute less than six hours a night i'm like babe you are dating an insomniac get used to it

"Was reading something I wrote like 4 years ago and got all "damn why can't I write with that kind of passion anymore" and now I'm sitting here stewing."
I go through this all the time. I know it sounds like some superficial "philosophical" BS but as you get older it is harder to be as strident in your convictions because you realize there is so much more to be learned. I dunno if that helps or not.

anyways, 5am here.

I was sort of gone for a while but nope. Still awake.

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/nad/video/sony/1504431964.jpg

can't sleep. drank a few beers after work, went to bed early, woke up around 2:30. read the first 30 pages of 2 different books, started a blog. :/

over xmas break (about a month) i lapsed into this 6 am - 2 pm sleep cycle and now im 8 days into school and i haven't been able to not get 5 hours max a night

drank a few beers after work, went to bed early, woke up

This is the absolute worst, it's been happening to me more often of late and has pretty much killed my enthusiasm for school night drinking.

you wake up because brain is screaming for water

y/day slept from 8.30 am to 4 pm

then slept from 9.30 pm to 12.30 am

what the fuck now

grow up?

done and done

lj is my gf apparently

just had like 6 of my diabetic brother's gluco tabs (they're supplied free and we have about 300 in the house) and now I feel slightly woozy - power thru the night imo

sun night no sleep
mon night 12-2 am
tue night 10-1am

work's been a tough slog this week.

holidays have been that bipolar mix of being totally social outside of the home and totally reclusive within it

i wonder whether i should sleep today before the evening's cocktail party, am thinking 'probably'

darraghmac wtf dude that's insane

let's sleep together dmac, in the sponsored silence sense

No sleep, vigorous exercise, cocktail party, followed by a long drive - that's what you want.

(Louis: use the extra time to get some noms up on the 00s books thread - I've been hoping for some classic j4gg3r obscurana)

(shameful confession: my 00's reading has been minimal to non-existent, and since graduation I haven't finished a novel)

too much ilx I reckon (I'm getting the same)

had a heavy weekend, as documented on WDYlL, coupled with a massive train delay sunday evening coming home. got 8 hrs last night, and the world is a magnificent place all of a sudden.

It's a combination of ILX, music, sports and just not having the motivation. I feel bad but it's how I've fallen. Which reminds me, I need to crack on with this novel I'm writing. Four chapters in, all going brilliantly, and now a month's hiatus. Why? Why must I be such a flaky divot?

modric injury imo, it's affecting us all

curse you spurs, why did i adopt you as my premiership team

(ans: a combination of thudd, my best friend, and attractive slick-passing english underdogness, but most of all the self-deprecating nature of their more intelligent fans)

we all have those days

haha

you've misspelled 'loathing' btw

true story- flirted with villa when i was still young enough to choose. i have a feeling that my life is destined to follow a 3 year cycle of regret/relief on that score.

well when i was about 8 or 9 i claimed to be a spurs fan without knowing anything about football, but then charlton's ascent coincided with me becoming aware of their presence in my local area and tbh their profile as a friendly club with honest toiling and sometimes surprisingly spry footballers suited me down to the ground. have never been tempted away. yes i have become quite partisan in spurs' favour of late, but fortunately this phase will pass because weather permitting tomorrow is charlton-millwall

oh yeah

rod liddle, danny hayebaker, twenty thousand snarling reprobates, you gonna get fucked in the ass

i claimed to be a spurs fan without knowing anything about football

says it all tbh

i had previously claimed to be a norwich city and manchester city fan but cmon gimme a chance here

(norwich because i had an enjoyable holiday there aged 6 and man city because they were the good to united's evil)

(lol)

cmon gimme a chance here

no, it was actually a comment on spurs fans tbh

no i knew that, i wasn't commenting on your previous post, i just expected some form of clemency for my early prevarications, i mean norwich city for fucking out loud

it's almost as if i embrace bathos

beats embracing winos

could do with a wash

sleep 3: 1.30 pm-5.30 pm

(xpost) embrace showeros

okay don't grow up

who is this thundering tosser

going to bed

Damn lj you're all over the map. My life was like that when I was workin overnights. It gets rough, physically and mentally, but you get kinda used to being that way all the time and then the whole sense of wtf-to-do-with-self takes center. Which is a bitch because you're never really in the mood for the stuff you'd normally wanna be doing with these weird pockets of free time and it's just like "okay, well there are probably some good cat jpegs over on ILX..."

actually for all his condescension conrad makes a good point, and tonight i think i am heading for a far more conventional bedtime - but you're right rabies, this is like some sort of netherworld where online is all and writer's block is absolute

that was empathy btw

dude we were all young and wretched once - perhaps my reaction against your empathy is actually a sort of projected self-loathing - in any case i am sorry if i was nasty there - i know you like progressive rock so am willing to cut a break anyway

good one

btw as this is an instance of me losing my cool and not being all 'yah totes stay young stay wretched' i would accept it if i had been sb'd there, and i can promise that this sort of incident won't be repeated

Ha, I am a good 7 years older than LJ and still suffer from no sleep/writer's block/internet procrastination/general foolishness. 'Young and wretched' doesn't cut it. Maybe just 'wretched'.

(That 'wretched' is mostly directed at me, btw, not LJ.)

YOU BASTARD

Hahahaha, there is no hope. All is lost!

all we have is other people's poetry and our own powers of misinterpretation

HEAR ME, ALL YE WHO WOULD FAIN STUDY THEE LITTERATURES OF ENGLANDE, TURN THY CLOAK AND LEAVE, I ENTREAT YE LEAVE

young man you'd better be in bed when i get back (oo-er mrs)

btw as this is an instance of me losing my cool and not being all 'yah totes stay young stay wretched' i would accept it if i had been sb'd there, and i can promise that this sort of incident won't be repeated

― dyao know what i mean (acoleuthic), Friday, December 18, 2009 6:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Eh, even if it wasn't his intent it kinda looked like provocation on the surface. It's the internet. A contained universe of miscommunication and all that. You didn't seem too outta bounds imo, ppl should save their SBs for real shit.

last night: 14 hours, interrupted only when my phone went off
tonight: 3 1/2 hours

feel like i'm going fractal

u need an ilx break tbh

are u gonna help me w/ that

nah, i'm on sbattical

Man I've barely touched the SB in a fortnight since they changed the system to make it not work

You mean the six-month thing? That makes it work beautifully IMO

I wanna feel like when I SB somebody because the like Ned's Atomic Dustbin it's got a chance of coming off.

"they like"

"they're like"

We need a record of what posts you've SBd so I could remember more clearly what I was being unfairly spiteful about.

every time you're excelsiored your next sb should count as ten, power up kinda thing.

yeah and if you let it build then after x30 strength SB you should have "He's on Fire!" .wav attached to your posts à la NBA Jam

oh yeah that's a sensible way to run a website

i sleep fairly well, apart from always needing to get up to piss, I have the bladder of a 90 year old man.

srs question have you had that checked out?

i've always had it really but few weeks back had a "i can't piss" few days and doc said i had an infection. i explained i have general probs and stuff, she gave me an antibiotic and things returned to normal after a week or two. not specifically gone about going to the toilet a lot, figured it's just my lot. i have been checked out for diabetes tho.

If you've always had it fair enough. Been super-cautious about that kind of thing since my Dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer, but he caught it early and beat it, thank god.

yeah I should prob keep an eye, I think when I went to the doc (twice) a few weeks ago we had a good old chat about my pissing habits and they asked a lot of questions, I guess they covered that, I hope! yeah have always had a really crap bladder...just gets worse as I get older and I drink a lot obv...

ha yeah i tend to overlook my drinking habits when trying to account for pains and ailments

A very cute purring kitty crawling into my lap does not make getting up and going back to bed any easier

Alright, the cat's wandered off and I've finished my beer, let's try round two.

Just in the last few months I have been experiencing the middle-aged thing of sleeping for about 4 hours, waking up, going to the john, then taking 30-90 minutes to fall asleep again. ie, it usually takes 7 hours in bed to get 5.5-6 hours of sleep. This is going to make going out on weeknights very tough unless I'm prepared to feel like crap at work. :p

^Same sleep patterns usually for me, too. Waking and wrestling to stay asleep, 9hrs=6.5hrs, etc, just minus the having to pee. Can't wait to get older and add that dice to the game.

Last night though was more staring at the ceiling all night, getting a fractured couple hours, gf awake for finals, lay there and then two more fractured hours, force self outta bed, COFFEE...Meeting girlfriend's sister for the first time later today, should be a good first impression.

ambien >>>> lunesta >> melatonin

i think i still need 3 more days of sleep to catch up, though.

Do any of those not stick with you for the entire next day? I take a couple Tylenol PM once in a while and they help me get to sleep but the entire next day I have no brain function.

there are some after effects to all of them :( i think melatonin is the worst.

i dunno for me at this point it is
sleep + limited brain function the next day
vs.
no sleep + no brain function ever

is that the order in terms of effectiveness/strength?

if i take a whole melatonin i'm utterly monged the next day; it's gotten to the point where a quarter of a pill will do the job but still only just leave me approximately functional the following day. fortunately i'm down to my last pill so i'm just gonna have to deal with the insomnia in future.

yeah i think that ambien is most effective and melatonin is least.
melatonin gives me restless sleep and lots of panicky waking up in the middle of the night moments and then i feel totally shit the next day.
last night i took ambien and it hit me fast, which i appreciate, bc usually w/ lunesta it's still 2 or 3 hours before i can sleep.

Where I've been at is:

limited sleep + dice-roll wrt brain function next day
vs
full night sleep + pretty seriously hampered brain function

I only ever get no-sleep when I'm really stressed out, say for example I have a job interview in the morning, in which case it's better to be pretty foggy than no sleep anad looking strung-out dumb.

Why on earth did I hyphenate 'no sleep.'

all work and no-sleep makes you CRAZY

I kind of have those panicky/disoriented wake ups with Tylenol PM so possibly ambien is worth a shot

no work and no sleep makes you CRAZY and LAZY

at this point i don't really know why i don't sleep because i am getting lots of exercise, eating healthy, only drinking alcohol occasionally. maybe it is stress/worries? sigh.

I've never not been this way. Even when I was a little kid my mom would check on me late at night when I should have been long asleep and I'd be laying there in the dark, quietly, looking up at the ceiling. I just can't stop the wheels from turning; I just wish they'd do something useful since that's the case!

Is not sleeping a newish development for you, or?

it's been an issue for the past 7 or so months?

i've had bouts of it in the past but never this bad.

Job searching? Feeling displaced in a new city? Maybe it's just getting older, I know it's been getting incrementally worse for me as I near 30 and I'm totally dreading what that will mean for middle age.

probably all of those things. i definitely think if i had a more regular daily schedule it'd help. the worst is when you are really tired and you go to bed and then 3 hours later you're still awake but it's too late to take anything if you don't want to kill the entire next day.

I knowwwwww. The whole being monumentally tired and expecting to crash so hard and to just not is a real bite in the ass.

i've always had trouble sleeping through the night if i'm nervous/stressed. now that i'm teaching, it happens every. single. semester. a couple of weeks before classes start, i wake up at 2, can't sleep, fret/plan, etc and then get up at 6 totally tired and nervous.

lately i've started taking the sleeping meds earlier, like around 8:30 or 9, so that i can fall asleep at 10 or so. even if i wake up at 4, that's plenty of sleep to function on. not ideal, but anticipating the problem and treating it before i start to fret about it seems to help.

never tried prescription meds tho. i'm not a chronic insomniac, like the kind of person who can't sleep for days. i just can't get a solid night's sleep undisturbed by 2am freakouts.

I'm taking some herbal drops. You can take 15 to 30 depending what you want (just relaxed, take 15, if you have problems with sleep, take more duh). I have to admit I feel rather relaxed and sleep is gooooooood. Sadly my oldest kid has decided to give us nightly visits and, as a result, my husband or I go to sleep in her bed as there's not enough space for three persons in our bed.

Sooooo soooo tired today.

Tried this post twice in longer forms, but my phone ate it. Basically:

1.I have a sleep issue too
2. When i remember to do it, eating two slices of bread plus two cups chamomille tea puts me down like a baby
3. Fresher, loose chamomille seems more powerful than the stuff from the supermarket
4. YMMV

last night i tried to do half an ambien but that was a mistake.

doesn't drinking tea before bed make you have to pee and/or worry about having to get up to pee so you can't sleep? does to me and i don't even have a sleep problem

i've always gotten up to pee at night, so it's pretty mch habit and i don't count it as an actual interuption of sleep cycle. Just stumble to the bathroom, pee, stumble back to bed, then sleep for a fe more hours.

Yeah I quit drinking tea before bed bcz I WILL wake up to pee at least an hour, usually two or so, before I want/need to get up, and then I'm just UP. But IIRC there was a red bush/rooibos tea I would drink that did good to relax me and did help with the getting to sleep part of it.

Too often it happens at 4:00am and then I'm awake til 9 or 10 or so and man

man, this is lame.

went to bed 4am last night but mainly spent adding lightning effects to pictures using photoshop

after i made that post about tea/pee above i drank tea before going to bed and i think i got up about 5 times last night

Tried this post twice in longer forms, but my phone ate it. Basically:

1.I have a sleep issue too
2. When i remember to do it, eating two slices of bread plus two cups chamomille tea puts me down like a baby
3. Fresher, loose chamomille seems more powerful than the stuff from the supermarket
4. YMMV

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, February 1, 2010 5:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ha! The night that I post this as my ultimate solution to insomnia is the night that it doesn't work AT ALL. I think my problem was that I drank camomille before bed the first time, then when I woke up, drinking more didn't help. Had to take a shot of Nyquil, which didn't even put me down right away.

Some background that was lost when I tried to do the first post:

My fiance and I have very different work schedules at the moment. She usually gets home around 11 or 12, and I have to get up for work at 4:45. So I go to bed with the kid around 9, get a few hours of sleep, then she calls me when I need to let her in (our doors are bolted). When she gets in, she eats dinner and watches TV and a bunch of other noisy stuff, like a person should be able to do when they get home from work. Hence, my sleep problem.

last night i tried to do half an ambien but that was a mistake.

why, and how do i shot ambien

This was the first night in a really long time in which I actually kinda slept-ish. I'mma make me some coffee and read my stories, this is great.

For a while there, I was going to bed around 6-8 PM, waking up at midnight, then going back to bed at 1-2 AM. (My nursing school hours start at 6 AM on clinical days, something I'm still trying to deal with.)

it's 6:29, I woke up at 4:40, and my alarm is set for 7:20

it was a mistake because it didn't knock me out and then i was all groggy and weird all night. stupid me tried it again last night bc there was the other half and i didn't want it to go to waste, but i was up all night again and now blahhhhhhhhhh.
xposts

Remind me again why I shouldn't drink all the beer in the fridge?

http://themax.mlblogs.com/pee.jpg

God could someone have told me lunesta is $70 WITH INSURANCE before I picked it up? i dont even want this butterfly of death bullshit. on the other hand im picking up xanax for $1.19 and percocet 10mg for 69 cents. GO FIGURE.

There's no reason at all that you shouldn't drink all the beer in the fridge if you want to fall asleep now but wake up at 4 or 5am mysteriously because alcohol fucks up your sleep patterns. If 5am is an okay wake-up time, then go for it dude.

yeah i know its not a generic but you know still feel like im getting a WELCOME TO AMERICA!! experience every now and then xp to ME

Get your doc to indicate "dispense as written" on your next scrip, Sunny. Iirc that tells the pharm that your doc thinks none of the generics will meet your needs, and therefore the name-brand should be billed at the generic rate because you don't have a choice. That's if your insurance program offers that benefit, but I don't think it's that rare.

god srsly xanax/valium are much better for sleeping than any of those sleep aids imo. if only i had insurance/a doctor to prescribe them!

laurel i had no idea you could do this! thanks for the tip. tza, i completely agree.

5am, can't sleep, dawn chorus is keeping me awake now, fuck off birdies

bah.

poo

am up. wtf. ugh.

I tried a sleeping pill for the first time in life this week. Never again, half a pill made me groggy for twenty four hours.

where do i buy eckies

what kind was it kbp?

Beeeen up since 4:00. After 7+ hours (!) of orientation at work yesterday I dreamed abstractly in training videos! I cannot describe how strange it was, but being thankful this morning that all I have to do is price clothes and shit and not remotely operate a highly lethal electromagnetic forklift(thing) and that I do not require a physics degree.

past few nights i have gotten myself to fall asleep upon going to bed and then woken up about 1 hr later :( sunday night i then remained awake til 7am. last night i fared a little better and got what *almost* felt like a real night of sleep!

went to bed at two. woke up at 6:30, couldn't get back to sleep. <-- this part never happens

it didn't knock me out and then i was all groggy and weird all night

All prescription sleeping pills do this to me and I hate it!!! I don't have chronic insomnia, thank goodness, but I will have really super restless sleep if I'm stressed or if I am too stimulated right before I got to bed (like last night because today is my first day back at work after a four day weekend, so it's like the Sundays but x4 and I was up late reading a book I really liked, so all night I was restlessly tossing and turning and watching mind movies of the book). Tylenol PM usually does the trick, but I have to be careful because I will sleep for 14 hours if I take a full dose.

The worst ever was when I took a tiny little piece of a Seroquil because I was in law school and SUPER STRESSED and had to study for an exam the next day and our neighbors were having a giant party and yes, I slept through all the noise but at 5 pm the next day, I was still so tired and incapable of activity that I just sat on the bed and cried in despair.

WHO DARES TO LIVE?

OMG

THIS FUCKING SUCKS.

feelin u

apparently five hours at night and a power nap in the afternoon is all I can tolerate anymore

http://highfivecomics.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/doktor_sleepless_trade1.jpg

:(

I am restless and bored and nobody is online and I can't sleep. Again. Fuck it. Gonna watch a movie. bah.

sorry dude

you guys are vikings at not sleeping

I somehow missed this whole viking thing. \(o_O)/

But I am def something at not sleeping that is for certain.

me too

gah

MY FUCKING PUPPY IS CURLED UP AND SNORING AND MAKING ME JEALOUS!!!!

how could I be so tired at 10pm and then stay up until 3? it is a mystery

can't sleep. why did i have two glasses of iced chai before bed?

My gf reckons our broken sleep last night had something to do with the full moon. I rather think it was the Belgian trappist beer we drink in the evening.

fuuuuuuuuc

struggled last night myself, think had four hours in all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCkYEwrIiNs

I hate these nights where I can't sleep, yet getting out of bed feels like it could be painful. Hovering in this in-between state. Only 2:36, but I'm supposed to get up really early and bike with the gf. FUCK.

GODDAMN WEIRD DREAMS

Spent all night listening to new house noises and trying to put the dramas in my head top bed. Very fitful but I am hopeful that it was just a one time thing.
Ps my insomnia from before kind of resolved itself when I switched time zones and started a job with a super long commute all at once.

pathetic last night, couldn't sleep at all. anxiety returned. aaargghh. hate this.

ugh woke up at 3. 5:40ish now. alarm in 20.

wow so going to work on zero hours sleep today

:( Sucks. Watching trashy TV and taking pictures of my dog. That's how I roll during these sleepless nights. ugh.

ive slept like 7 hours total since thursday

its ~getting tired~

Because you've been doing fun things or because of insomnia?

both? went out both nights but couldnt manage to sleep in at all. stayed in tonight but am super restless (probably overtired?). also v anxious about ~lyfe~ atm so

(i wish i had a dog! our neighbour's dog had puppies and i play w/ them every day but cant take them home :./)

stayed in tonight but am super restless (probably overtired?). also v anxious about ~lyfe~ atm so

Yeah, this is me right now too.

(ps - http://i35.tinypic.com/2q9c8kj.jpg)

I just realized that drinking 2 qt of iced green tea probably didn't help. I know it doesn't have a lot of caffeine but it must add up, rigt?

Yup, green tea still counts. It's 2:00 am and I just finished two ham and cheese quesadillas that I fried in butter and then served with habanero sauce. This was probably a mistake. Stomach uproar! Possible fitful sleep. Weird dreams!

omg. good luck!

here we go again

It's a good thing I have no job or else I'd be tired as hell at work tomorrow.

Currently, it's 2:10am and I'm about half way through Charade with Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. I've seen it about 20 times, so I was hoping it would put me to sleep. But no! I like it too much I guess.

Yeah, same. Once I do find a job it's going to be a bitch adjusting my sleep schedule.

Oh I've never seen it! I feel like it's too late to start a movie now so I'm watching a show about parasites. Fun times.

what's up fellow sleepless people

hatin it

hey guys

was so-exhausted-i-felt-sick a few hours ago, but couldn't go to sleep.

now i just can't go to sleep.

I'm really keyed up and I can't figure out why.

I know why I can't sleep, preferred yesterday when I didn't call the people with whom any contact whatsoever tends to preclude sleep

i went to sleep early now i'm awake :-/

should stop watching entourage before bedtime. also should stop smoking before bedtime. nicotine is a stimulant right? or is it a downer? I can't remember because I thought the reason why people smoked & drank coffee was for the dueling banjos effect. but then I think I read somewhere else that it's a stimulant.

I started sleeping sooooo much better when I quit smoking. "Better" here meaning deeper, more solid sleep that is easier to fall into. Also when I smoked I could never sleep in because the moment my brain was even half-conscious from light I would want a cigarette. Now I can't sleep in because I have a dog that wants to play at 8 a.m. on the nose.

can't decide b/w a blues driver or a tube screamer

ooo ~sparkle drive~

nicotine is a stimulant, caffeine is a stimulant, alcohol is a depressant - will probably need to have a stiff drink in order to sleep

i just put freshly laundered sheets and blankets on the bed -- a lot of times i sleep better when the bedding feels clean and the dust mite allergens aren't making me itchy. wish me luck.

there are so many fucking guitar pedal demos on youtube

i just put freshly laundered sheets and blankets on the bed -- a lot of times i sleep better when the bedding feels clean and the dust mite allergens aren't making me itchy.

This is SO TRUE!! When yr tired, it's like, oh damn the sheets, I'll change 'em on the weekend, but let a tiny bit of insomnia creep up on you and you will NEVER stop feeling the creepy crawlies.

I can't seem to fall asleep anymore. Go to bed quite early but just lie there. The other night I was up until SIX AM. Or was it five? Something like that. Fuck this shit. I was always good at falling asleep.

wow so going to work on zero hours sleep today

― makes da cool chewbaccas in pain sounds STAR WARS (arby's), Friday, 16 July 2010 11:53 (1 month ago)

iirc i then ate breakfast, had coffee, barfed all of it up and called into work.

^dehydrated and covered in bruises from seeing lightning bolt in overbooked venue

i've been having the most fractured sleep lately. combination of heat and i dunno what. been driving me a little nuts.

there are so many fucking guitar pedal demos on youtube

― ITS YA BOY (zorn_bond.mp3), Wednesday, September 1, 2010 3:35 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark

sometimes my insomnia is bcz of this, too.

like how many more times can i hear the word tone before i strangle someone with the intestines i've wrenched violently from from my own abdomen.

is how many of those videos i've watched.

It's the way some people in those video say "tooooooooooooooone", like it's some kind of magic incantation.

"warm"

oh hai.

generally have trouble, tend to lie awake in bed for a few hours before nodding off, but the past few nights my throat/sinuses have closed to a whistle with the result of three hours in three nights. :( floating round.

I slept like a normal person last night (!!!!) and it was good.

i slept better than usual, too. it cooled off here quite a lot and i was able to sleep with the window open, which i find way better than AC fake cold + still sorta humid and bleh.

Getting a sleep study next week to investigate sleep apnea and narcolepsy as possible causes for my never feeling rested after sleep, waking up in the middle of the night, occasional fainting episodes, conking out at my desk, etc. now that cardiac arrhythmia and The Diabeetus have been ruled out (thank god). It was a pleasant surprise to find my insurance covers it.

at my mom's house for a couple days.

exhausted.

keep waking back up after 15 minute dozes.

ugh.

weird week. having a hard time clearing my head.

;_;

high five

trying my superslow sunn o))) edit for soporific potential but it's a bit....evil, i think

I await the results with interest - what is the speed factor? probably not best for hypnotherapy in that it will be terrifying as fuck

slowing down some KTL would be next-level horrific, maybe a 2-hour 'theme' could be the final spur to drive me over the edge into savant dementia

Thread of timestretched mp3s

that and doing a burt_stanton retrospective...quite interesting actually

wish there was a hilarious text substitution for megszentsgtelenthetetlensgeskedseitekrt

http://www.thefinalthird.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Charles-N-Zogbia-Wigan_1867919.jpeg

i just can't sleep

all i can do is lie there

that's the worst feeling :(

are you too tired to read or do something else?

take benadryl

our medecine cabinet looks like its from a rehab clinic, imna drink some milk, maybe that will help

Listen to Hüsker Dü. That always makes me sleepy (in a good way).

I'm up at 4am and I've got to report for jury duty at 8am. Hope I don't help wrongfully convict someone in my zombie state.

btw I think it's bullshit that eligibility rolls over every year around here. I've been summoned three times in the last three years, but I was talking to a friend in Brooklyn who said they can only be summoned once every four years.

Anyway, still awake. I hope the coffee is better this year than it was last year.

I just noticed that cute girl who was in an episode of Community a few weeks ago is in a new UPS commercial. (There's a joke in here somewhere that involves a package, but I can't find it.)

After some extensive research (that is, playing it through for the first time in a couple years at least), I've determined that "Wedding Song" is the best track on the first Psychedelic Furs album.

Crawling back into bed now.

i just can't sleep

― plax (ico), Thursday, December 30, 2010 11:04 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

all i can do is lie there

― plax (ico), Thursday, December 30, 2010 11:05 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that's the worst feeling :(

― ENBB, Thursday, December 30, 2010 11:05 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

And that's right where I'm at tonight. Frustrating!

:I

<3

sleeping is hard!

:)

Sometimes it is but usually it's one of the things I do best which is, I guess, what makes not being able to sleep so annoying for me. Bah. It'll come.

i bet that rotter benson is either snugly asleep or pulling quizzical sleepy faces at you for not being asleep.

i have woken up around 5am several days in a row and not been able to get back to sleep. never had problems like this before. not especially sttressed. perhaps i am dying.

maybe youre just getting older

drag

insomnia only really starts to get interesting during the third month imo.

i bet that rotter benson is either snugly asleep or pulling quizzical sleepy faces at you for not being asleep.

― estela, Tuesday, August 9, 2011 2:20 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The latter although that little rotter is the reason I was up in the first place. He got a case of middle of the night woofs and would not shut up. Guess who's sleeping now though. Smug little bastard.

valium

omg so tired

;_;

feelin u. Was up til 6 doing a whole load of nothin cept thinkin

fuckin' thinkin'

ya i wouldnt mind if it was somethin i was good at, y'know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egZdExfwFoY

so i guess i'll pop out and see if anywhere i can buy some milk's open. something to do isn't it.

blah

well

i keep thinking i see things moving on the walls out of the corner of my eye

it's nearly quarter to 5, maybe it's not worth going to bed now, and i should just go for a walk

blah

― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Wednesday, March 6, 2013 7:17 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^
should have just kept it brief like that

is there a way to post something to ilx without bumping the thread you're posting to?

like, you'd post something but the thread would appear at the top of site new answers?

i thought of posting to one of the drunk threads because it seems more acceptable to post inconsequential rambling there, but i'm not drunk

bends_slayer

i thought about lying and saying that i was drunk, but what if i slipped up somehow and was exposed?

it would be embarrassing

has boy_slayer posted here lately?

i just looked and i guess not

y/day slept from 8.30 am to 4 pm

then slept from 9.30 pm to 12.30 am

what the fuck now

― like having an eternal kazoo in your underwear (acoleuthic), Friday, December 18, 2009 3:20 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

grow up?

― conrad, Friday, December 18, 2009 3:23 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

is there a thread that is like the drunk thread but for sober people?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kakFDUeoJKM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aD5rgDpQqc

http://i.imgur.com/4tFBLly.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFEtrZ3QiD0

My sleep has changed quite a bit recently: about half the week, I wake up somewhere between 4 and 6am, and my brain is just on and racing and I'm unlikely to fall back asleep (although I sometimes I don't feel as tired as I'd expect to for the rest of the day). I wonder if my in-bed screen habit is having a cumulative effect on staying asleep (falling asleep hasn't been a problem for me thankfully for quite some time). Or are my sleep needs just changing with age?

I know that the general rule of thumb is not to look at screens 1-2 hours before trying to sleep, but I've also been trying various ways of not getting up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, including limiting my liquid intake after 4pm, to little avail. Being on a screen keeps me stay awake a little longer so that I'm able to make one last pit stop to try to help get through the night -- which has only ~kinda~ worked, so maybe I should just scrap this strategy? IDK!

More water can also help you stay asleep (and even regain it after nocturia), not that my hydration levels are exemplary.