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#1 Mar 20 2014 at 8:05 AM Rating: Good
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What do you do when it's the middle of the night and you can't sleep?
Refuse to believe it's happening and stubbornly stay in bed.:7 (26.9%)
Get up to do something productive. :1 (3.8%)
Touch Yourself. :13 (50.0%)
Other:5 (19.2%)
Total:26


Because it's most nights for me now, and I always go with the first option.
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#2 Mar 20 2014 at 8:06 AM Rating: Excellent
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The third option seems the most useful, just keep going until you're too tired to stay awake.
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#3 Mar 20 2014 at 8:07 AM Rating: Good
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Or too dehydrated.
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#4 Mar 20 2014 at 8:10 AM Rating: Good
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I watch tv and play some vidya games.
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#5 Mar 20 2014 at 8:53 AM Rating: Excellent
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I usually have a season of Scrubs or Top Gear or something similar on my phone that doesn't really require paying attention to. It's just enough so you're not bored.


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#6 Mar 20 2014 at 9:00 AM Rating: Good
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Shaowstrike the Shady wrote:
The third option seems the most useful, just keep going until you're too tired to stay awake.


yup can do that and guzzle a beer and im out like a light Smiley: sly
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#7 Mar 20 2014 at 9:04 AM Rating: Excellent
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I do whatever I feel like that night: lay in bed, get up and get on the computer, go back to sleep, go to the bathroom, wake the wife up, whatever. But there is something nice about being able to lie in bed when it's all quiet and have time to think without being constantly interrupted.
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#8 Mar 20 2014 at 9:07 AM Rating: Good
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Not sleeping at night is quite normal for those of us who aren't dirty daywalkers. That said, if I can't sleep during the day, I get up for a while and do something that allows me to kill a bit of time without really engaging my brain. Random Youtube videos, for instance.
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I rarely wake up where I can't get back to bed. Usually I try going to the washroom and drinking a glass of water, but if I really can't get back to sleep, I'll usually read for about 1/2 an hour, which usually takes my mind off whatever is keeping me up and lets me relax.
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#10 Mar 20 2014 at 12:25 PM Rating: Good
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Touching yourself can be done productively and also while you're refusing to believe you're not sleeping. So the first three choices aren't exclusive.

I suffer from insomnia very rarely and always it's been when something very weighty was on my mind.

Anything bugging you?






Edited, Mar 20th 2014 8:26pm by Elinda
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I get up for a while and do something that allows me to kill a bit of time without really engaging my brain. Random Youtube videos, for instance.
Also, Cracked articles.
#12 Mar 20 2014 at 1:41 PM Rating: Good
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I never really wake up in the middle of the night and can't get back to sleep.

I'm a relatively light sleeper. It's easy for me to wake up, but unless I've been asleep for 4-5 hours, I usually fall right back to sleep. If I have already been asleep for 4-5 hours, then it's usually time for me to wake up anyway.

I go to bed at midnight and wake up at five usually. On the few days I fall asleep early or decided to hit the sack at 9 or 10, I usually wake up at midnight or 1am, and realize I shouldn't have because I've been asleep for 3-4 hours already. So I get up, grab a drink, go to the bathroom, and then lay back down and fall asleep.
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#16 Mar 20 2014 at 5:37 PM Rating: Good
This hardly happens to many any more. Working all day, staying standing for almost a good 7 hours... I car pool to work and sometimes fall a sleep coming home. I'm just beat. Like right now, I hurt and could probably go to bed now (not even 7pm) and sleep til my alarm goes off.
Maybe you are not doing enough during the day?
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There's no option for "go murder whatever woke me up". Usually by the time you get the body hauled to the marina, prepped and tossed overboard, you're pretty tired again.

That or read or go design something to print later, or ban spammers or something like that.
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#18 Mar 21 2014 at 10:52 AM Rating: Good
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Last night, I continued my habit of laying in bed and pretending it's not happening.

Elinda wrote:
Touching yourself can be done productively and also while you're refusing to believe you're not sleeping. So the first three choices aren't exclusive.

I suffer from insomnia very rarely and always it's been when something very weighty was on my mind.

Anything bugging you?


Work. That's mostly it. Been having really bad anxiety issues from it, and now it's keeping me from sleeping.

Which was really bad, but now it's working in my favor. I'm SO overtired that nothing's getting to me. I had a meeting with my boss and no panic attack! I guess my developing insomnia might actually help me. (Note: I am something of a self-destructive person).

Thanks for asking. Smiley: nod

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This hardly happens to many any more. Working all day, staying standing for almost a good 7 hours... I car pool to work and sometimes fall a sleep coming home. I'm just beat. Like right now, I hurt and could probably go to bed now (not even 7pm) and sleep til my alarm goes off.
Maybe you are not doing enough during the day?


Definitely not. Up between 5 and 5:30, get to work between 7:30 and 8, leave it between 4 and 4:30, home 5:30-6. Then I work out and make dinner, which brings me to about 8. Not much time left in the day, after that.
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#19 Mar 21 2014 at 5:19 PM Rating: Excellent
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As has been repeated multiple times in the BDT:

See a doctor!
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I suffer from insomnia and usually only sleep 3-4hrs a day and most of that is interrupted sleep. I get tired of trying to sleep, if that makes any sense, so usually I am up on the computer or cleaning the house in the middle of the day when I should really be asleep. I work midnight to 8am, go work out, come home and make a snack, run errands, etc... and usually sleep from noon-6pm with several bouts of waking in between. My doctor prescribed several different sleep aids(not all at the same time) but evidently I am very sensitive to them because they knock me out for 10-12hrs at a time. I have melatonin that I take on occasion and that seems to work okay but I am hesitant about taking it all the time because I've heard your body can stop producing it's own if you take it for long term.
#21 Mar 22 2014 at 5:43 AM Rating: Good
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IDrownFish of the Seven Seas wrote:
As has been repeated multiple times in the BDT:

See a doctor!


If it makes you feel better, my sisters is yelling at me for the same thing.

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I suffer from insomnia and usually only sleep 3-4hrs a day and most of that is interrupted sleep. I get tired of trying to sleep, if that makes any sense, so usually I am up on the computer or cleaning the house in the middle of the day when I should really be asleep. I work midnight to 8am, go work out, come home and make a snack, run errands, etc... and usually sleep from noon-6pm with several bouts of waking in between. My doctor prescribed several different sleep aids(not all at the same time) but evidently I am very sensitive to them because they knock me out for 10-12hrs at a time. I have melatonin that I take on occasion and that seems to work okay but I am hesitant about taking it all the time because I've heard your body can stop producing it's own if you take it for long term.


I slept through the night! I mean, I took Zzzquil and 2 melatonin, but still!

I'm kind of nervous about real sleep aids. I've only ever used one once, in the hospital in January actually, and it wasn't so good. I hallucinated, ripped the IV out of my arm and GI tube out of my nose, and went wandering through the halls thinking I was an android trying to escape my human captors. Not so much an experience I want to replicate.

How do you function on such little sleep? I've noticed such a big dip in my brain's productivity...
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#22 Mar 22 2014 at 7:29 AM Rating: Good
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idiggory, King of Bards wrote:
I've noticed such a big dip in my brain's productivity...

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idiggory, King of Bards wrote:


I slept through the night! I mean, I took Zzzquil and 2 melatonin, but still!

I'm kind of nervous about real sleep aids. I've only ever used one once, in the hospital in January actually, and it wasn't so good. I hallucinated, ripped the IV out of my arm and GI tube out of my nose, and went wandering through the halls thinking I was an android trying to escape my human captors. Not so much an experience I want to replicate.

How do you function on such little sleep? I've noticed such a big dip in my brain's productivity...


I've had this problem since I made the decision to go off my psych meds 3yrs ago so it's just something I have gotten use to. I sleepwalk on sleep aids! I use to sleepwalk as a child and it is something I have grown out of but on any kind of sleep aid but melatonin, it happens again. When I was on Ambien and Restoril, I slept walked. On Lunesta, I hallucinated like I was on acid. After the acid trip, I decided to quit with the sleep aids and just deal. I've tried cutting out caffeine, working out until I dropped, even drinking. I still only manage an uninterrupted 2hrs then another 2-4 of dozing on and off.

Edit: And congrats on sleeping through the night! I'm sorry it took such drastic measures though. I feel your pain.


Edited, Mar 22nd 2014 9:47am by Delva
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Ambien is the sleep med that sent me into that waking dreamstate in the hospital.

What the @#%^ is in that stuff?

edit: waking, not walking.

Edited, Mar 22nd 2014 11:41am by idiggory
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#25 Mar 22 2014 at 11:25 AM Rating: Good
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idiggory the Fussy wrote:
Ambien is the sleep med that sent me into that waking dreamstate in the hospital.

What the @#%^ is in that stuff?

edit: waking, not walking.

Edited, Mar 22nd 2014 11:41am by idiggory

A friend of mine takes ambien and she sleep walks and makes meals in the middle of night, that stuff is crazy.
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idiggory the Fussy wrote:
Ambien is the sleep med that sent me into that waking dreamstate in the hospital.

What the @#%^ is in that stuff?

edit: waking, not walking.

Edited, Mar 22nd 2014 11:41am by idiggory

A friend of mine takes ambien and she sleep walks and makes meals in the middle of night, that stuff is crazy.


I've woken up in the front seat of my car with the keys in the ignition before. The car wasn't running so I don't know if I went anywhere. The SO started hiding the keys after that. I looked through the news for days after that for anything weird that happened that night but nothing ever came up and there was no damage to the car. Have you ever been so scared you broke out in a cold sweat and your body tingled? Yeah, I was that scared.
I've also set a kettle on to make tea and went back to bed with the stove on. I've never cooked anything though.


Edited, Mar 22nd 2014 7:15pm by Delva
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