Who has trouble sleeping

[Walrus]

Same here walrus..the chronic pain is a real sleep killer..sometimes headphones with some good music helps, if anything else it keeps my mind from racing just getting into the tunes..JABLUES

I've done that... but then end up listening to music for hours. And wondering what's next on the playlist... and thinking of little bits of trivia having to do with the song or the band...

[prr2freya]

I rarely ever sleep. Rarely more than 4 hours at a time. I easily go 48 hours before sleeping a few hours. I cat nap once in awhile. On rare occasions my body just quits on me and I sleep 6-9 hours (about once a month). It is impossible for me to set a sleep schedule, I cannot sleep on command, it just has to happen when it happens. Sometimes that will be in the afternoon, sometimes 4am, there is no telling. I was diagnosed with insomnia along with other things 15 years ago. For 10 years straight i was on sleeping pills then took myself off of them as i was just groggy and tired and never restful.

Now i have Valium if i REALLY need to force myself to sleep a few hours.. but they don't really do much and i wake up 3 hours later. I have a lot of Valium in reserve because i do not take it as prescribed.

When i do sleep, my dreams are extremely vivid and i can even feel pain... from memory I would assume. Sometimes the dreams are good... More often than not, I am living in a horror movie. It has been this way as long as i can remember. I wake up crying and talking out loud on a regular basis. I used to sleep walk but have not done that in a few years. Sometimes i have very vivid conversations with people in my dreams and have a hard time recalling later if it was a dream or a real conversation and have to ask people.

I prefer to just not sleep.

edit: Luckily I work from home and set my own schedule and have done so for many years. If I didn't manage this, I would go completely bonkers.

[JABLUES]

Lol..I know..right now the birds are singing and and its getting light. 6:00 am is usually when i make an attempt but then its like "one more vape, then sleep"..

[JABLUES]

vaping over..5:20 am calling it a night

[Jules22871]

I didnt get to sleep until after 5am this morning then my daughter shows up at 8am just to hang out. Oh well, another day's sleep shot,lol

It is so hard to function in a normal way when you don't sleep in a normal way. I've tried to have most of the jobs I've had to where I can work at night or late afternoons. It is just not in me to be able to work at 8 or 9 am. I refuse to take sleeping pills. They are evil. I take Elavil for depression and chronic pain. If I know I just have to be somewhere early I take it with a Valium 3 hours before I know I need to be asleep and that usually works. I am scared to death of drug addiction so I don't do that very often. The last thing I need on top of everything else is rehab.

Edit to add: Maybe we ought to start a Night Owl Vapers club,lol

[prr2freya]

Edit to add: Maybe we ought to start a Night Owl Vapers club,lol

Yeah! I'll join a day one and a night one. Except for Thursday nights and some weekend nights when I'm out... or when I am making graphics, or working, or playing a game, or reading... or petting my kitty... or editing machinima, or texturing a 3D environment... well.. you get the point. I'll be here.. lol

[Christina]

Well I just blew it. I passed out for several hours this afternoon. I'll be seeing you "in the club".

[Mary Kay]

Chris, You mean your little hamster blew it..lol
I almost gave in and went for a nap myself..It's so hot! The A.C. is cranked up but the humidity and the lack of wind makes it feel like we are in the 100's. besides I made a big pork chop dinner.
When I can't sleep, sometimes I put a book on C.D. on, one I have heard a hundred times so my mind can wander a bit and hopefully wander right into the book in a dream. One of my problems is that when I am into something..like this board, I tend to dream about it. That's one reason I wish people wouldn't post scary avitars.. That Black cat one with the scary eyes..

[Christina]

OMG Mary, once I finally did fall asleep last night I dreamed I was on here and posting. Oh dear... like I need another addiction

[Closet Toker]

Same here, can't sleep for crap. I work the graveyard shift. Much trouble sleeping in the daytime. Been doing it for about 2 1/2 years now. Lie in bed, mind is going 100 mph. The economy, our government running rabid, bills to pay, stress at work, unhappy marriage..... it all adds up. Definitely should see a Dr., can't afford it, must buy sleeping pills and Vodka. They work good, except for the Depression part.
Must keep control.... arrrgh!