Sleeping Requirements

[manicmonday]

Pretty straight forward poll.

Every knows I'm a nocturnal, and even worse, a chronic insomniac. While it's never really had a bad effect on any of my relationships, it does interfer with my job to a certain degree. If we had board meetings at 2 am, I would be 100% with it. As it is, at 8 am, I'm there, but not fully human till about 10 am.

Any one else? Any one else have the the problem in reverse?

 

[snafu]

Gotta have at least 7 hours or a get migranes. I've been doing pretty good. I antisipate the clock. I'm always up before it goes off. Don't know why.

 

[manicmonday]

Gotta have at least 7 hours or a get migranes. I've been doing pretty good. I antisipate the clock. I'm always up before it goes off. Don't know why.

I do that too. I almost am never awaken by the alarm.

Oh sleep, why do you ellude me?

 

[phreakwars]

I've spent almost 9 years dealing with sleep issues. After a medication change a few months ago, I can usually sleep about 6 or so hours now. Before, I would only sleep an hour or 2, then be awake for the day..

Some say my personality has changed since I have been sleeping more. Evidently, I am a much happier person ( in the real world).
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[Phantom]

In the summertime I am a night owl. After the time change in the fall, I am a morning bird. I suppose you could say I'm solar powered. Up with the sun, down with the sun.

 

[smutt butt]

I can't imagine being an insomniac. I went 4 days without sleeping when i stopped taking vicodin for my leg. I took 3 sleeping pills and washed them down with a beer and watched tv all night. I know what insanity feels like.

Any other time i can lay down on a pile of broken glass and sleep 12hrs.
Going to work at 3:30am and trying to watch the few shows on tv that i like makes sleep a luxury.

 

[Komrade Vostok Hazard]

1. Usually I'm up at either 9,10, or 11 AM and can be fully functional for a day. If I get up before then I'm either belligerant and/or in some sort of dillusioned zombie state all day

2. I Generally have a lot of troubles falling asleep ESPECIALLY if there is any sort of sound or even the slightest thing on my mind that is bugging me. These are NOT fun all-nighters, and I've had way too many of them.

 

[builder]

If I eat too much, I can fall asleep standing up and leaning on a bass speaker at a rock concert.

But seriously, I'm with you on the stress/worry factor in the insomnia equation.

The older I get, the more I realise that fears are fabrications of our own making.

Front them when they come. Try not to paint them in your own mind.

 

[hugo]

If some flesh eating bacteria is not attacking your pubic region your worries are probably without a solid foundation. Just like the buildings Builder builds.

 

[RoyalOrleans]

If I don't get my 8 hours of sleep a night, I get angry. You don't want to see me when I am angry.

 

[RoyalOrleans]

Front them when they come. Try not to paint them in your own mind.

So you think you can front when Revelations come?

 

[angie]

I can function, if need be, on 4 hours sleep. It isn't pretty but it is doable. If I go several nights without at least 6 hours, Ice Princess (as some of my friends have so kindly dubbed me) comes out. Total unbearable bitch.

 

[ToriAllen]

It depends. If I am bored and have nothing to do or look forward to I could lay in bed until around noon, but I would only sleep about eight hours. If I am on vacation or have something pressing that needs to get done, I'm fine with four or five hours of sleep.
I don't sleep very sound. I wake up about three times a night, but easily get back to sleep.

 

[RoyalOrleans]

Total unbearable bitch.

I seriously doubt that, Ang, you're such a baby-doll.

 

[ParasiteGod]

I can go with very little sleep and be okay. I once went for two weeks with only 6 hours total. I actually start to function better when I'm sleep deprived.
If I sleep past a certain time, though, I'll sleep the whole day. More sleep = More tired.
Some of my best artwork/writing/etc comes out around 3 or 4 am. Ask me at noon and I can't do a thing if I've been sleeping.
The problem is, the less sleep I get, the more of a jackass I am. But I'm one of those people who can insult you and make it ound polite.

 

[Anna Perenna]

I don

 

[RoyalOrleans]

I don

 

[Anna Perenna]

Tubgirl? Is that you?

Yes. It is I: 浴槽の の女の子

 

[RoyalOrleans]

Yes. It is I: 浴槽の の女の子

I'm sending something to you that I want autographed.

 

[Vortex]

My sleeping is very irregular...and irritating...

I cant fall asleep unless im dead tired.....or drunk (drinking at times has become my sleeping pill lately)....

then on the flip side...it takes a friggin freight train to wake me up (usually harder if i havent been drinking....if you can believe that)

7 hours is the shortest time my body seems to require for me to function normally...anything less i either get sick....or am a shell of a human being for the day....

left to my own devices (sober or drunk) and not setting any alarms or having anything planned the next day i can sleep 12+ hours easily. .....infact not that long ago i went to bed around 6am...woke up at 9:45pm...rolled over and called it a day and went back to sleep till about 9am...

I love my sleep...Must be why i stay young looking cuz i smoke like crazy...

with my promotion i seem to be stressed alot more...and getting to sleep is much harder then every before, but waking up is at least easier (mainly out of fear of being irresponsible when i have soo many people to be in charge of and to be a good example)...

shrug..well see how tonight goes.....got off work at 1:20am...and have to work from 11-9 tomorow....im hoping these few glasses of wine will get me tired to go to bed since i havent gone to sleep all week till 5ish...so this should be a great day tomorow....zombie vortex will come out i suspect...