Sleep. Do you do it?

So what are your sleep patterns like? For me, I always go to bed between the hours of 10pm and 12am. I wake up consistently about 7 or 8 times a night, and when I get bored with that(or when I can't get back to sleep), I just wake up, usually around 4, 5, or 6 in the morning. Sucks like hell, because I can feel the tiredness in my eyes, but my body is very awake and pretty energized.

Around 7am or 8am I usually try to go back to sleep, after I've eaten breakfast and gone on the computer for awhile. Amazingly, I usually do sleep for at least an hour, or at least I am like 1/2 asleep for longer. I don't think the sleep issues are because I'm too hungry or anything; when I eat breakfast at that time I'm usually not even hungry just eating cuz I know I need breakfast! And I do sleep on the floor because beds bother me(I don't have one right now anyway), but even when I did have a bed a couple months ago I had still been having these sleep problems ever since all the $#%^ started to go down after Thanksgiving of last year.

Tips anyone? Just don't suggest a bed though, cuz I HATE beds and my room is actually so much bigger without one. And I'd rather buy a bike.

I have trouble with sleep too.
I don't sleep much and when I do,
I have nightmares.
I went to a sleep study once,
and apparently I sleep in snatches
of approximately 12 minutes.
I wake up not due to any outside factor
I just wake up.

I don't like beds.
In fact
I slept on the floor
for many years.
I felt more comfort
on a wooden floor
than a soft bed.
Perhaps you would like
a futon?
Not the sofa type,
but the roll-up floor mat.
I have been considering
a futon.
I also take melatonin sometimes.
Although I don't like
to drug us.
Sometimes it is better
to rest
than sit up all night
staring at the moon.

Hello,

I'm very scattered with sleep. I try to go to bed or at least lay in bed by midnight. But some days I am afraid to go to sleep or anxious and stay up till 2 or 3, sometimes all night. When i do pass out finally it is very fitful, I am waking up all the time to the point I give up and put a movie in. Some nights when I do sleep I can't wake up and its all night terrors. Or i don't remember what i've been dreaming about and wake up in a puddle of cold sweat. I've had a hard time sleeping as long as I know, but it does get worse when I have been under more stress. And even though I have a bed now. I also prefer wood floors, just always felt more comfortable being able to stretch out and having a solid firm surface like a wall at my back or in a corner. I did have a futon for a while but I gave it to a friend who needed a bed since the floor suited me.

Since I can't get my sleep at night, I have no qualms about napping in the day since not napping doesn't help the problem at all, and I sleep better during the day. That gets in the way of work unless I can hold off until around 4.

Exercise and melatonin both helped a bit but I don't do the sleep aids. the bike would be good exercise.

I don't really have tips, but I know what it's like to have weird sleep patterns. I usually go to bed around 12am-3am, unless I plan to be out later with friends ahead of time. My alters go to sleep at different times. The littles go to bed around 12am at the latest, otherwise they go to bed when they're tired which is usually around 10pm (my head gets so much quieter, haha). Ray usually goes to sleep the same time the littles do. L.C., Rain, and Kat usually stay up with me and are fairly good about going to sleep the same time I do. However, sometimes at least one of them is up either "doing" something in their "room" or thinking about something, and that's when I can have trouble getting to sleep. Sometimes I won't get to sleep at all. Other times I'll finally get to sleep, but I'll have a restless sleep because one part of me is still awake.

Waking up is a gamble, too. Sometimes, I'll wake up at 6am and be ready to go (this is usually coming from Cassie if she's had a good night's sleep). Even if I'm tired, at least one part of me isn't, so going back to sleep is near impossible. Other times I'll be ready to wake up, but at least one part of me is still tired, so I won't be able to get up to save my life. When that happens, I can sleep as late as 2pm before the tired part(s) of me let me get up. It's weird feeling like you can sleep even if you don't feel tired, and going back to sleep so quickly when you don't feel tired.

Some days I'll get up early, then have to take a nap. Sometimes this is due to my littles being tired, other times it's due to me being tired (haha), and sometimes it's due to someone else being tired if they stayed up later than I did or didn't sleep at all.

My sleep patterns are all over the place. I can go to bed anywhere between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. And sometimes I'm really tired and want to go to bed, but someone else doesn't, so we end up staying up. Or alternately sometimes I feel really, really sleepy and then really awake again, so it's like someone inside just went to bed. We don't sleep well at all....

Oh my gosh! I thought I was the only person in the whole world who can't sleep at night due to the amount of nightmares, only feel safe sleeping in the day, sleep on the floor. I have improved things a little bit with the nightmares. One of me needs a teddy bear and a night-light, another needs the radio and to sleep facing the door, and we're all agreed that we don't like the bedroom.

Yet for someone with such huge sleep issues it amazes me that I can be half-asleep absolutely anywhere: in the doctors waiting room, in the car, on a train, on a park bench, even leaning against a wall! You'd think I'd be too scared to shut my eyes with so many potential dangers (ie people) around me, though I'm never totally asleep and always on "red-alert" if someone comes near me. X

Kerry H wrote:Yet for someone with such huge sleep issues it amazes me that I can be half-asleep absolutely anywhere: in the doctors waiting room, in the car, on a train, on a park bench, even leaning against a wall! You'd think I'd be too scared to shut my eyes with so many potential dangers (ie people) around me, though I'm never totally asleep and always on "red-alert" if someone comes near me. X

Yes! I have an hour break at work, and I eat the first 15 minutes and half sleep the last 45 just sitting on the floor leaning against the wall with my back up against the lockers. My coworkers are amazed.

I think I need less sleep than people on the average, but I also have some sleep trouble.

I used to have sleeplessness from ever since I was kid, especially in summertime. I had trouble falling asleep either because my head was too busy inside and I saw scary faces, or I was feeling physically very inconvienient. I started to feel itchy, or there was a smell or a sound that disturbed me so much I couldn't relax, or the pillow was bad, you name it. Just about anything could make hyper. I used to have frequent nightmares that woke me up, but those have gone away.

Nowadays I have trouble going to bed in the evening, I stay up until I'm so tired I have no chance but to go to bed. This is a habit I probably picked up when I trained martial arts for several years and usually came back from the gym around 9 PM, fully energized and never able to go to sleep before midnight. Sometimes I manage to fix my sleeping patterns but it's temporary. If I go to bed in sensible hours, I wake up at 4 AM. But overall, I don't have the restlessness I had when I was young.

LittleRedDogToo wrote:I also take melatonin sometimes.
Although I don't like
to drug us.
Sometimes it is better
to rest
than sit up all night
staring at the moon.

thanks i'm gonna try this. better than what i was considering, which was taking some leftover zanax or cold medicine!!!

I'd sleep from 5 am to X, usually waking up between 8 to 14 hours later, but I'm stuck to go to school, so it gives 1am-3am to 7am