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How Do You Sleep?

Superfly said:
Well I've heard it's the second best thing you can do in bed, but unfortunately, I'm not familiar with sleep. Not anymore.

Sucks.
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Do racing thoughts keep you awake?
 
Superfly said:
Well I've heard it's the second best thing you can do in bed, but unfortunately, I'm not familiar with sleep. Not anymore.

Sucks.
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That's something else you can do in bed. See the things you learn here?
 
grip said:
Do racing thoughts keep you awake?
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Downer post. You've been warned.

Well, if I can get to sleep, I'm usually OK until I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. After I get up, I'm usually up because I can't turn my brain off. But it's hard for me to get to sleep, too, because I just can't sleep, no matter how tired I am. Honestly? I think it's psychological. I have an unnatural, irrational fear of dying, and I think that's the majority of my problem. I'm afraid I'll go to sleep and won't wake up.

I've always had the fear of death, but the sleep problem has only gotten bad in the last year or so.
 
If im sleeping alone typical its on my stomach, one leg bent and i have a body pillow and typically sleep with it and two others.
I almost never wake up during the night
i typically only get about 5 hours of sleep during the week
the bed never gets made unless i expect company

when im sleeping with somebody typical i sleep on my back and their head is on my shoulder/chest.
 
I sleep on my back with one pillow, but my thing is I always have to have at least a sheet on me. I can't sleep with no blankets at all for some reason.

Normally, I sleep VERY well. I fall asleep within 5-10 minutes after I lie down and sleep through the night, but I only require about 5 or 6 hours per night. I don't even use an alarm, I just wake up automatically on my own.

I make my bed every morning. I have a really nice comforter set with lots of pretty throw pillows, so I actually like to make my bed. Looks pretty!
 
Superfly said:
Downer post. You've been warned.

Well, if I can get to sleep, I'm usually OK until I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. After I get up, I'm usually up because I can't turn my brain off. But it's hard for me to get to sleep, too, because I just can't sleep, no matter how tired I am. Honestly? I think it's psychological. I have an unnatural, irrational fear of dying, and I think that's the majority of my problem. I'm afraid I'll go to sleep and won't wake up.

I've always had the fear of death, but the sleep problem has only gotten bad in the last year or so.
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I'll PM you my thoughts on this because it's a long answer. Though I've been going thru a very similar scenario.
 
With between one to three cats between my wife and I.
The older female cat knows she is protecting my wife from naughty advances .
 
Superfly said:
Downer post. You've been warned.

Well, if I can get to sleep, I'm usually OK until I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. After I get up, I'm usually up because I can't turn my brain off. But it's hard for me to get to sleep, too, because I just can't sleep, no matter how tired I am. Honestly? I think it's psychological. I have an unnatural, irrational fear of dying, and I think that's the majority of my problem. I'm afraid I'll go to sleep and won't wake up.

I've always had the fear of death, but the sleep problem has only gotten bad in the last year or so.
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Bummer, sweetie, I'm so sorry to hear this. :(
 
Superfly said:
Downer post. You've been warned.

Well, if I can get to sleep, I'm usually OK until I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. After I get up, I'm usually up because I can't turn my brain off. But it's hard for me to get to sleep, too, because I just can't sleep, no matter how tired I am. Honestly? I think it's psychological. I have an unnatural, irrational fear of dying, and I think that's the majority of my problem. I'm afraid I'll go to sleep and won't wake up.

I've always had the fear of death, but the sleep problem has only gotten bad in the last year or so.
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There's no need to fear death, your influence will live forever. Even if you don't wake, you'll still be here.
 
Risky Thicket said:
I sleep with two pillows. I make the bed if I get up after my wife. If she's out of town I may not make the bed at all. I don't wear anything in bed no matter how cold it is outside. I'd love to sleep 8 hours but I rarely get more than 6.5 hours a night. Wearing socks to bed would be my idea of brutal torture.
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I perform a synchronized swimming routine in slow motion.

I start on my right side. Then I shift to my back. Then the left side. Then I go back to the right side, at which point I fall asleep.

I sleep with two pillows please, I almost never make the bed, I sleep in precisely the clothing god gave me, and I usually wake up a number of times regardless of who is or isn't in bed with me. I am so silent that people have mistaken me for dead.

I also sleep squeezed up to the edge of my bed, despite the fact that I have a queen, unless I am sleeping with a man, in which case I gravitate towards his body heat even in my sleep. This is why men have to sleep on the wall side. I would push them out of bed otherwise.

Pia the Fluffy positions herself either behind my knees, or at my feet. If she is feeling especially generous towards her lowly human, she might grace me with a few minutes snuggled up to my chest.
 
I sleep on one pillow (tempurpedic) my Australian Cattle Dog sleeps leaning against my side, and I sleep on my back. I usually get about 6-7 hours a night. I'm not restless, this is just about the time my body feels like its had enough.
I partially make the bed, (its my little form of rebellion after years of living in the barracks) and I sleep in shorts (I've tried the nude thing once, it just felt really weird)
 
My sleep varies..sometimes I can sleep for 10 hours, other times 4...My partner and I are both quilt grabbers..he would grab it...roll it around him and I would be left with virtually none

Answer: get 2 duvets!!

Pillows are the worst..I love high pillows..I have 4..but wake up with a twist in my neck often...
 
Risky Thicket said:
There was a time, most of my life, when I slept easily. I used to have expresso at night and go to bed two hours later and sleep like a log. Not anymore. I fight to get 6 hours.

Lately I have been experimenting with Melatonin and Zzzqwill capsules. Too much Melatonin leaves me spaced out the next day. I find that 10mg works. Also, if I go to bed by 9 to 9.30. We were in Banff, Alberta in May and I slept like a rock. Could have been the fresh air in the Canadian Rockies, the cool nights. I don't know but I haven't slept that good in over a year.

Recently I bought an Up band. It's an interesting gadget that really helps me monitor my sleep. I don't know how it does it, but it tells me exactly how much sleep I get at night; when I went to sleep; when I woke up and for how long before I went back to sleep; how much deep sleep I got and how long I was in bed compared to how long I slept. It is helping and I have improved my sleep from a 4.5 average to 6.5 hours.
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Thanks for the info RT.....I think there are like 3 or 4 days out of entire year where I get like 8,10 hrs of Sleep. Use to be after working and being totally wiped out. I wont take the meds due to my proprioception/Sensory perception. Which tends to extend to the boundaries of the house then. Several times the Docs at the VA have offered muscle relaxers and or sleeping pills. Like you just about anything will get me up.

Anything over the 4 -5 hrs.....I try to go back to sleep. But then I end up just laying there, ending up staring at the ceiling, until I can't just lay there anymore. Tried several things for years. Now I pretty much have come to the point. That when I am dead there will be plenty time to sleep.
 
NIMBY said:
With between one to three cats between my wife and I.
The older female cat knows she is protecting my wife from naughty advances .
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I'm pretty sure there's a joke waiting to be made in this post.
 
ecofarm said:
There's no need to fear death, your influence will live forever. Even if you don't wake, you'll still be here.
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Rational response to an irrational fear.
 
Superfly said:
Downer post. You've been warned.

Well, if I can get to sleep, I'm usually OK until I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. After I get up, I'm usually up because I can't turn my brain off. But it's hard for me to get to sleep, too, because I just can't sleep, no matter how tired I am. Honestly? I think it's psychological. I have an unnatural, irrational fear of dying, and I think that's the majority of my problem. I'm afraid I'll go to sleep and won't wake up.

I've always had the fear of death, but the sleep problem has only gotten bad in the last year or so.
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Really?
Your posts are usually so jovial.
You've mentioned some family health issues a couple of times.
Maybe that's part of it.
Worries about your little ones contribute, maybe?
Watching bad horror films?
The few times I've had sleep issues, I was able to take afternoon naps.
Good luck.
 
MMC said:
I get nothing over 4 and half hrs. Been that way since I came home from overseas and has been that way for a very long time. I sleep with One Pillow, which usually my cat crawls next to or sleeps over me and I make the bed.....Although I don't let the Ole lady give me the quarter test anymore. Plus, sometimes I will cheat and not use hospital corners. :mrgreen:
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Yeah - roughly same/same. Although now it varies. Sometimes I will go a couple of weeks without waking up every hour and a half or so. Buuuut, then I'll have to stay up late for something, and my body will assume "aha, sleep deprivation, obviously we are overseas" and no more sleep for a week.
 
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