Sleep

[James.]

For the last few months I've had massive issues sleeping. Thought I was over the worst of it until last night when I found myself sitting in my pants in my living room at 2:30am drinking whisky and smoking roll ups after spending 4 hours lying in bed wide awake. On the plus side I actually quite enjoyed getting a bit drunk in the middle of the night.

Insomnia really does suck. Does anyone else have sleep issues they want to share?

[Haydos]

For the last few months I've had massive issues sleeping. Thought I was over the worst of it until last night when I found myself sitting in my pants in my living room at 2:30am drinking whisky and smoking roll ups after spending 4 hours lying in bed wide awake. On the plus side I actually quite enjoyed getting a bit drunk in the middle of the night.

Insomnia really does suck. Does anyone else have sleep issues they want to share?

Get bugged by the same sorta thing. I'll have a read or whatever, go to bed a bit tired and just lay there. Can never get comfy, just end up rolling over every 10 minutes, usually takes me a couple of hours to get to sleep. If I still can't I'll end up sticking the laptop on or reading again. Ballache.

[Daggers]

Insomnia really does suck. Does anyone else have sleep issues they want to share?

Not slept properly since January 5th - but I'm now getting used to just coming downstairs and popping on Fringe or somesuch on the computer.

I was given sleeping tabs but they wiped me out in the daytime too.

[21st Century Fox]

I've got it too (as some of the timings of my posts attest too). I'm finding it extremely difficult to knock my sleep patterns back to normal. I usually go to sleep listening to an audiobook or podcast but its not working at the moment. I can usually work my way through quite a few boxsets in this state.

[Guest]

_{The fact is that before electricity most people slept for four hours then awoke and then slept for another four hours. It is very natural for humans to awake - in the old days people would get up and go for a smoke , talk about dreams or whatever. Apparently the interval was also a good time for sex as the body was in a better state than the first time you went to bed to sleep.}

_{Electricity and 24 hour light (in fact gas lights before that too) altered people's way of life - going to bed later etc... and it became a fashion to think that a person should sleep for 8 hours consecutively.}

_{Before I found out about this I used to have problems sleeping , I' be awake and start thinking it was wrong and try to get back to sleep and stress about it more. Since learning this I've found that I accept a time awake which I use for thinking but I stay relaxed and then sleep again much sonner and easier.}

_{I can probably find proof online if you need it.}

[James.]

Nice to know I'm not alone. I was getting incredibly anxious about it but am a lot more tolerant now. I did the sleeping tablets thing but didn't like them - they're addictive and only really disguise the problem instead of addressing the underlying cause, which annoyingly for me appears to be worry that I won't sleep..! I hate my head sometimes.

I've started doing yoga again and am doing quite a lot of reading about mindfulness and meditation. Definitely helping and even if I don't sleep at least I'm becoming a chilled out motherfúcker which is never a bad thing.

[davieG]

Not slept well for years I can't remember the last time I slept all the way through the night. I usually fall asleep for exactly one hour and it makes no difference what time I go to bed, I then drift in and out until 3-4am when I'll eventually manage to sleep until sometime between 6&8am.

Often end up watching the TV in the middle of the night.

[Guest]

Sorry about the text size my computer seems to do that often.

Not slept well for years I can't remember the last time I slept all the way through the night. I usually fall asleep for exactly one hour and it makes no difference what time I go to bed, I then drift in and out until 3-4am when I'll eventually manage to sleep until sometime between 6&8am.

Often end up watching the TV in the middle of the night.

Very natural there are different levels of "sleep" that we pass through.

[James.]

_{The fact is that before electricity most people slept for four hours then awoke and then slept for another four hours. It is very natural for humans to awake - in the old days people would get up and go for a smoke , talk about dreams or whatever. Apparently the interval was also a good time for sex as the body was in a better state than the first time you went to bed to sleep.}

_{Electricity and 24 hour light (in fact gas lights before that too) altered people's way of life - going to bed later etc... and it became a fashion to think that a person should sleep for 8 hours consecutively.}

_{Before I found out about this I used to have problems sleeping , I' be awake and start thinking it was wrong and try to get back to sleep and stress about it more. Since learning this I've found that I accept a time awake which I use for thinking but I stay relaxed and then sleep again much sonner and easier.}

_{I can probably find proof online if you need it.}

There was a BBC article on this recently.

Here we are - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783

[Captain...]

Routine is what you need, and no napping, I was having serious sleep problems when I was teaching English, because the hours were basically before work, lunch times and after work/school some days I was working 7:30 - 9, then an hour at lunch time then 4-9, it was killing me, then I would a have one morning off when I would have a lie in and that would fvck up my sleep pattern even more.

There is nothing worse than lying in bed so tired you can't sleep.

The trick is to be menatlly and physically tired one without the other and I can't sleep. Also ake sure all computers and such are switched off and away from your bed.

Sleeping tablets never really helped me and there is always the risk of reliance on them. The other thing is try not to nap during the day, you need a routine. As soon as I went back to 9-5 my sleep pattern just fell alongside it, apart from the odd Sunday I now sleep well.

[Trav Le Bleu]

Squinting at FIFs text makes me feel very sleepy.

[21st Century Fox]

Nice to know I'm not alone. I was getting incredibly anxious about it but am a lot more tolerant now. I did the sleeping tablets thing but didn't like them - they're addictive and only really disguise the problem instead of addressing the underlying cause, which annoyingly for me appears to be worry that I won't sleep..! I hate my head sometimes.

I've started doing yoga again and am doing quite a lot of reading about mindfulness and meditation. Definitely helping and even if I don't sleep at least I'm becoming a chilled out motherfúcker which is never a bad thing.

I know what you mean, I've had periods where I'd get pretty depressed because I couldn't sleep. It can be worse when you're totally out of sync with people around you. I try to go for a run or something which occasionally helps.

[Daggers]

The fact is that before electricity most people slept for four hours then awoke and then slept for another four hours. It is very natural for humans to awake - in the old days people would get up and go for a smoke , talk about dreams or whatever. Apparently the interval was also a good time for sex as the body was in a better state than the first time you went to bed to sleep.

I know what response I'd get if I thrust a semi into the small of my wife's back at 2am with the words "FIF on Foxestalk said our bodies are now in a better state for sex, sweetheart..."

And it wouldn't lead to further procreation.

[Guest]

Squinting at FIFs text makes me feel very sleepy.

The Wife says something similar.

[AdamN]

I always find it difficult to simply get into bed and go to sleep. I find it much easier if I've got something to take my mind off it, so pretty much every night I lie down with my laptop on the side of my bed, watching tv shows or films. Eventually I either start nodding off, or find myself tired enough to roll over and be asleep within 5 minutes. Usually at this point I keep whatever I was watching playing, so I can just listen to it as I drift off. I know some people say they can't sleep unless it's deadly silent, but I'm totally the opposite.

This doesn't do much good for my sleep pattern though (last night I got to sleep some time after 5), so if I need to sort that out then I just set my alarm earlier. Makes for a miserable day if you only get 2/3 hours sleep, but you'll at least be tired enough to go to bed a lot earlier that night.

[Guest]

I know what response I'd get if I thrust a semi into the small of my wife's back at 2am with the words "FIF on Foxestalk said our bodies are now in a better state for sex, sweetheart..."

And it wouldn't lead to further procreation.

I think the moment you said "FIF..." you would notice an immediate and intense reaction in the state of arousal of your wife.

[21st Century Fox]

I always find it difficult to simply get into bed and go to sleep. I find it much easier if I've got something to take my mind off it, so pretty much every night I lie down with my laptop on the side of my bed, watching tv shows or films. Eventually I either start nodding off, or find myself tired enough to roll over and be asleep within 5 minutes. Usually at this point I keep whatever I was watching playing, so I can just listen to it as I drift off. I know some people say they can't sleep unless it's deadly silent, but I'm totally the opposite.

This doesn't do much good for my sleep pattern though (last night I got to sleep some time after 5), so if I need to sort that out then I just set my alarm earlier. Makes for a miserable day if you only get 2/3 hours sleep, but you'll at least be tired enough to go to bed a lot earlier that night.

Make sure you have wifi switched off, I left my iPod connected to wifi next to my bed for a few weeks and I've never had such bad nights of sleep.

[Trav Le Bleu]

The Wife says something similar.

I think the moment you said "FIF..." you would notice an immediate and intense reaction in the state of arousal of your wife.

Is this the record for fastest self-contradicition on FT?

[LCFC FOX]

Go to bed at between 1 and 3am (when I don't have college) and then get up between 12 and 2 then next day. 16 nearly 17 is quite a good age

[Saxondale]

This is topical for me. I almost didn't sleep at all last night. Very frustrating!

[ScouseFox]

I'm always knackered in the day and can't sleep at night. It's shit.

[21st Century Fox]

Maybe the Foxestalk website creates some sort of perfect storm of electromagnetic radiation from computer monitors, thats why so many of us are suffering...... or being a Leicester supporter leads to sleepless nights.

[Guest]

Is this the record for fastest self-contradicition on FT?

possibly, though do you really KNOW what excites your wife?

[Daggers]

Is this the record for fastest self-contradicition on FT?

The whole fabric of reality is being torn apart by the superposition of the Bentley boys appearing on this site.

[Brainy]

My sleeping pattern is majorly ****ed because of work.

Its roughly something like

Monday 10am-2pm.

Monday Tuesday and Wednesday nights are normal(ish) sleeping at like 2am-10

Thursday evening I have a few hours nap

Friday 11am-4pm then another hour nap later on until midnight

Saturday 3pm-10pm

Sunday varies a lot but has a similar structure to Friday

Despite the randomness im usually able to fall asleep pretty easily at these times