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

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.