Damn I have a test in my audio editing class tomorrow and I can't sleep. Due to only getting 2 hours sleep last night and generally not feeling very well. Then after I've spent to long awake and adrenaline kick makes it even harder to sleep. It's bad timing, because I should have nearly done a PMV tonight, but am too tired to work on it and have been just watching lots of ThatGuywiththeglasses.com videos, since I havn't keep up with that site for a while since ponies. I was also suppose to revise my Brony news story script, but am too tired to think straight. Insomnia has been a big problem throughout my life it happens regularly and almost every single time I have something important, or that I am looking forward to the next day. This tends to ruin or make mediocre, days that are suppose to be awesome. It feels like a curse. On the bright side I am getting used to it and am getting good at doing things decently while tired. Anypony else have problems with insomnia?
Hm, I wouldn't say I have. I just like to stay up all night on the internet, yet I still make myself sleep.
Lately, I've been staying up really late chatting with people. I try to stay awake, but just last night I fell asleep while talking with someone. I feel absolutely horrible about it just leaving them but I can't help it. My body just completely shuts me down. So I would say I have the opposite of insomnia...I think...
I used to have problems sleeping when I was at school, I was probably depressed back then, insomnia is a symptom I believe, nothing serious though. Then there is messing up your sleeping pattern by staying up late for a few nights, drinking too much caffeine, information overload is also a thing to watch out for (can't remember what it is actually called) and sometimes your body just likes to mess with you =/ Those are my experiences with it, though I wouldn't really call it insomnia for myself though, as most of it is always self inflicted. :3 *edit oh and never go to bed mad, you aren't going to be sleeping.
Oh my God, yes. I'm 17 but I've had insomnia since I was about 10, maybe younger. I remember when I was little, I'd spend hours lying in bed, wondering how to fall asleep. It got worse as I grew up. Now, I seldom go to bed before 4am. I don't choose to, there have been times where I've jumped into bed at 10pm, just hoping I'd fall asleep in time, but to no avail. Now, as bad as it sounds, the only way I actually can get any sleep is by exhausting my body and mind so much through hours of consciousness, that it just can't take it and has to fall asleep. It's not healthy, I know it isn't. What really makes it so much worse, however, is my infernal body clock. No matter what time I go to sleep, I will wake up early in the morning. Most of the time, I go to bed at around 5am, and wake up at 8am. I know what this is doing to my health but there is nothing I can do about it. Mixed with the crippling depression I get during hours of insomnia, it's not exactly the best of experiences. I know how you feel when you say it feels like a curse. I just want to go to sleep, what did I do to deserve this? The only good thing i can possibly think of is ponies. You would think staying up late on the computer isn't helping my insomnia, but honestly, it doesn't affect it at all. If anything, it makes it somewhat slightly easier to get tired enough to fall asleep. However, ponies have at least started to replace the depressive side of things. Where before I would spend hours in bed, staring at my ceiling in a crippling state of depression, now I'm spending that time on here, with you guys and all things pony. At least I'm destroying my mind and body while chilling with ponies.
Can't believe I forgot to mention this. Tourette's doesn't help at all. It hasn't bothered me for the last few weeks at night, but it does sporadically flair up. It makes sleep impossible, but it does tire me out. Catch 22, too exhausted to stay awake, but can't go to sleep.
I think my insomnia is a symptom of bad health. I have gained a lot of weight in the last few years. Then I have been starving myself on crappy food staples due to financial hardship and frequently drinking alcohol. I'm pretty sure has given me sleep apnoea. I have heard that gaining weight is a cause of this and surprisingly not eating enough food also makes you gain weight too. Essentially a bout of insomnia usually starts when I wake up after only 2 or 3 hours of sleep, then I have to wait up to 50 hours before my body finally shuts down. Then I can sleep well normally until the next time something is stressing me out. I normally have one of these major bouts of insomnia every month. I had insomnia, when I had my final assignment last semester, that would make or break getting to continue the course. I had already passed the course, but this final assignment was to determine if I could continue onto the next level of study. Thanks to sleep deprived adrenaline, I made it. Only 23 minutes before the due date. I shudder to think of the toilets I would be cleaning right now if I didn't make it.
Can't really relate, since I've never had anything close to Insomnia. My only advice to you is to never go to be frustrated/angry. You won't be falling asleep there, buddy. I know what lack of sleep can do to you though. I don't really know what to say or do to help, and to be honest, that kind of sucks. *Yawn* I think I need to head back to bed. I'm still tired. EPR Chat kept me up until like 3:00 in the morning. :C
Starting when I was around nine or ten, I started having trouble going to sleep. Sometimes, I'd be up to four in the morning. And, being a kid, I'd just get up, and play with my toys, read, or write. One night, my parents found me doing that, and they didn't believe I couldn't get to sleep. They thought I was being "difficult." So I was punished, and made to go to bed earlier. Yeah, that helped. After a few weeks, I gave up, and just laid in bed, pretending to be asleep. Sleeping two to four hours a night was pretty normal for the next ten years. My grades suffered. I ground my teeth, so they suffered. Then when I was twenty, I moved out of the house, and started sleeping six to eight hours a day. For the first couple of years, I didn't see my family, because they didn't approve of me moving in with some woman I wasn't married to. Then, after a couple of years, my family "forgave" me, and started visiting. My insomnia came back. When I moved up here to Reno, I slept eight hours a day again, and my migraines went away, too. Now my family is moving up here. Twitch. Twitch.
Insomnia happened when I stayed in the EPR. So that's why I'm on forums more than the EPR. So I don't really have insomnia anymore.
Absolutely! My insomnia is characterized by me getting up at 6 o' clock in the morning - much too early for me.
Like I've said in every Insomnia topic I've ever seen, it takes at least 3 hours for me to fall asleep on average... But it's not even like I can just get up and go try to sleep again later in the day. It takes that long from the moment I lie down to when I actually fall asleep. :\ And from what I've seen doing things people say helps you fall asleep doesn't work for me at all. For example, a lot of people say reading books helps you sleep... If I start reading a book I'm not going to sleep until that book is finished or I get incredibly bored.
Well, I've always had problems sleeping... It's probably just an extremely old habit though. I've always slept late, and when I was really young sometimes not at all. It's partially because I like to spend as much time as I can on things... and also because I take a long time to get to sleep, sometimes an hour or more is wasted. However, I tend to take minor, "rests" of sort in mass or the classroom... that's not very good I actually woke up today at 11:00 to find I fell asleep when playing on the couch with my DS... But that's an extreme; it's all because of the paper route I had to help with (mentioned in another thread) I don't know though, I can handle my sleep-deprived self way better than people not used to depravity though.
