@heartny I start getting ready to sleep at 9, finally manage to fall asleep somewhere around 1, only to wake up at 3 and then manage to get back asleep at 5, but I have to get up for work at 6. My last block of sleep is plagued by dreams of missing my alarm or thinking it’s not a work day and sleepily turn off the multiple alarms I’ve set.
Case in point. Fell asleep watching 27 Nights last night. Movie was confusing enough without the 5 or 10 minute gaps I created!
Guess I was more tired than I thought after working outside all day trying to get things ready for the cold snap.
Parasomnia… I have a whole other life while asleep! (Night Family, Rick&Morty) I’ve been told by my hubs that I appear to be doing anything from palates, yoga, gunslinging. Videos to follow, NOT. I wake up exhausted! Anyone else???
@el1c1a
I get like that when I’m really exhausted. I’ll have crazy dreams and punch, kick, yell, sream and curse in my sleep. Cursing is mostly at my brothers. It used to happen a lot when my dad was alive and I was taking care of him and stressed out with my brothers slacking or not doing anything at all. It’s better now but it still does happen.
@el1c1a Yes, my girlfriend started to tell me I was yelling and cursing in my sleep about 3 years ago. And I started to sleep walk and roll out of bed about 6 months ago. And the waco dreams that are going on when I leave the bed… Scary times…
In previous decades it was naked dreams, running through mud dreams, running naked through mud dreams, bicycling naked through mud dreams, falling dreams, falling-then-flying dreams, and pirate dreams.
Once, almost 25 years ago, while recovering from back surgery and taking one (my first ever) Valium, I dreamt I stood before a massive goat-demon in a room with blood dripping down the walls. My then-wife said she heard blood-curdling screams from the bedroom and ran in to see me wake up, still screaming, with a terrified look on my face. I’d say that was a pretty major sleep issue.
@DonBirren so you need to get a Couple of rescued cats that are of course fixed! They add spice to your life, more so than Dogs do! You have not lived till you have been ignored by Cat!
Bladder size insufficient for a full night’s sleep.
I must produce an incredible amount of urine. It’s not like I wake up to pee and dribble a little out. No, It’s more like it’s 5am and my body has produced a basketball’s worth of liquid [1]. And yes, I do go before I go to bed as well.
[1] OK, that was an exaggeration. But it’s still almost humorous at times how long it takes with a steady stream.
Pregnant right now (those dreams are crazy!) Child who still crawls into bed with us. 60 pound dog that thinks she’s a lap dog and also tries to sleep in our bed and also barks at random and also likes to get up between 1am and 4am to go outside. Husband with sleep apnea. And adult child who keeps me up worrying about driving on black ice until she gets home after midnight.
I have no problem initially going to sleep - I’m usually out within 10 minutes of getting in bed at night. However, staying asleep is an issue. I often wake up at 3-4AM (usually for a bathroom break) and then lay awake for an hour or more before going back to sleep again (if at all). Then up at daylight.
Really sucks…
@macromeh yup, I do that. Late eating and wine consumption do not help. But after a bit I have habit they say is BAD where I watch news on TV. If new news not on yet, watch Sky TV news from England. World politics and also some palace intrigue. So then I do “sleep 2” around 5-6AM but overall not a healthy schedule I fear.
@macromeh@pmarin I don’t believe watching news at night is conducive to tranquilly falling asleep. I think it was no coincidence that in the early days of the big 4 commercial tv networks, the evening news was often sponsored by makers of headache relief. Bayer, anacin, alka seltzer. And that was before it came in gory color.
I had the weirdest dream tonight. There was this woman I didn’t know that entered my home to watch sports. She was really knowledgeable with sports statistics and trivia. She would just spout out some random factoid about a player. Then she would go take a break and go somewhere within my house. I assumed she was trying to rob me. So I tried finding her but I couldn’t. So I came up with elaborate “traps” to bait her into stealing something (putting expensive jewelry on a pedestal but rigging it with a loud buzzer, something she wouldn’t expect at a residential home). It ended up working. She got caught, arrested, then deported from the country. It was a sick dream… and I enjoyed every second of it.
I fall asleep just fine. Around 2-ish, I wake up because apparently that is the time for a good hot flash. I only have the one. Also when I wake up and try to make myself cooler, the littlest dog thinks it is time to get up so he jumps out of bed. Then I have to chase him around the room to put him back on the bed and then attempt to get back to sleep. Hence my problems getting up in the morning
My recurring nightmare is that I am caring for a pet or a baby that I have forgotten about and have not seen in weeks. Very stressful dream!
I have problem falling asleep, staying asleep (due to work injury and pain) then getting up from not sleeping. Lots of time I never enter rem so I’m really tired throughout the day and it’s just a never ending cycle until my body finally crashes. I also have the craziest dreams at times and when pain gets really, really, really bad and I’ve taken a lot of medicine that night I get horrible nightmares.
When I worked at the psych hospital I went through a phase (few weeks) where every night I was lucid dreaming about patients at the psych hospital pinning me down in my bedroom and preforming old school psych procedures on me like labodomies and when I would wake up I was still dreaming and seeing my dreams in front of me in my bedroom (false awakening). It was very terrifying and very exhausting. I would be so terrified I would get out of bed, shaking and sweating and not go back to to bed for hours bc I was afraid go sleep.
I talked with one of the drs at the hospital (who specialized in dreams) he said I was under too much stress and suggested I take a couple days off. He gave me sleeping pills to knock me out of the cycle and it worked. After a few days of taking the sleeping pills and and getting a good nights rest I went back to work and didn’t have the problem again.
@mycya4me I’m not sure who looks happier there. The cats seem kind-of nervous like why are we watching them. The lady seems happily dozing. In most cat households the cats are dozing and the human is up taking care of things.
EDIT I do liked the framed cat picture on the wall. The AI is definitely getting better.
It’s the end of the semester and I oversleep because I was up all night. I walk into the final exam late and realize I am naked. OK no that part didn’t really happen but would have been fun.
But yes I got to my 2 hour final about 1 hour late. An upper-divison engr course in something, think it was image processing (yes we did that stuff 40 years ago but with much less computer power). So I walked into the class room and everybody looked up, and I just gave a cheerful “Good Morning!”
Decades ago, a boss of mine had the (annoying) habit of asking everyone how they slept the night before. The usual ritual response was “like a baby”, “like a log”, “out like a light”. One morning, a rather frazzled-looking co-worker responded with “like a tumbleweed”.
All of the above
@heartny Yup
@heartny @zhicks1987 What y’all gonna do about
that f’n class?that “F” in class?
@heartny I start getting ready to sleep at 9, finally manage to fall asleep somewhere around 1, only to wake up at 3 and then manage to get back asleep at 5, but I have to get up for work at 6. My last block of sleep is plagued by dreams of missing my alarm or thinking it’s not a work day and sleepily turn off the multiple alarms I’ve set.
I’m a full grown adult and still have the dream that I show up in class, nekkid.
@chuckf1 as a naturist, i’d love to have that dream
@spacemart I also didn’t know the answers to the pop quiz. So there’s that as well.
@chuckf1 Anatomy class, per chance?
Cats. That is my whole sleep issue,
@kjady
Revenge bedtime procrastination.
@Kyeh
Had to Google that. Didn’t know there was such a thing.
Also TIL there’s an additional condition I wasn’t aware I had.
Thanks.
I guess.
@phendrick I truly do have it - when I first read about it my reaction was “YES!!!”
@Kyeh @phendrick
TIL
@Kyeh every damn day!
@chienfou
I bet you don’t have it.
Figuring out the parts of the movie I missed while I was dozing…
@chienfou Don’t worry. If it was a Lifetime Channel movie, it will be on again.
And again.
And again.
@phendrick
There’s a LIFETIME channel? Hunh… Guess that’s not on my ROKU app list.
Case in point. Fell asleep watching 27 Nights last night. Movie was confusing enough without the 5 or 10 minute gaps I created!
Guess I was more tired than I thought after working outside all day trying to get things ready for the cold snap.
@chienfou @phendrick
I watch it all the time
Parasomnia… I have a whole other life while asleep! (Night Family, Rick&Morty) I’ve been told by my hubs that I appear to be doing anything from palates, yoga, gunslinging. Videos to follow, NOT. I wake up exhausted! Anyone else???
@el1c1a
I get like that when I’m really exhausted. I’ll have crazy dreams and punch, kick, yell, sream and curse in my sleep. Cursing is mostly at my brothers. It used to happen a lot when my dad was alive and I was taking care of him and stressed out with my brothers slacking or not doing anything at all. It’s better now but it still does happen.
@el1c1a Yes, my girlfriend started to tell me I was yelling and cursing in my sleep about 3 years ago. And I started to sleep walk and roll out of bed about 6 months ago. And the waco dreams that are going on when I leave the bed… Scary times…
Exploding head syndrome is annoying.
My current main issue is cats.
In previous decades it was naked dreams, running through mud dreams, running naked through mud dreams, bicycling naked through mud dreams, falling dreams, falling-then-flying dreams, and pirate dreams.
Once, almost 25 years ago, while recovering from back surgery and taking one (my first ever) Valium, I dreamt I stood before a massive goat-demon in a room with blood dripping down the walls. My then-wife said she heard blood-curdling screams from the bedroom and ran in to see me wake up, still screaming, with a terrified look on my face. I’d say that was a pretty major sleep issue.
@DonBirren so you need to get a Couple of rescued cats that are of course fixed! They add spice to your life, more so than Dogs do! You have not lived till you have been ignored by Cat!
I’m a great sleeper. My problem is spending too much time on my phone when I wake up and getting the day started too late.
Bladder size insufficient for a full night’s sleep.
I must produce an incredible amount of urine. It’s not like I wake up to pee and dribble a little out. No, It’s more like it’s 5am and my body has produced a basketball’s worth of liquid [1]. And yes, I do go before I go to bed as well.
[1] OK, that was an exaggeration. But it’s still almost humorous at times how long it takes with a steady stream.
@smyle
Be glad you make it till 5:00 a.m.! That’s likely to change as you get older…
Pregnant right now (those dreams are crazy!) Child who still crawls into bed with us. 60 pound dog that thinks she’s a lap dog and also tries to sleep in our bed and also barks at random and also likes to get up between 1am and 4am to go outside. Husband with sleep apnea. And adult child who keeps me up worrying about driving on black ice until she gets home after midnight.
Otherwise I sleep like a rock.
@mbersiam
Congratulations! girl or boy?
@Star2236 Girl!
I have a hard time getting to bed. Not enough time to sleep!
I have no problem initially going to sleep - I’m usually out within 10 minutes of getting in bed at night. However, staying asleep is an issue. I often wake up at 3-4AM (usually for a bathroom break) and then lay awake for an hour or more before going back to sleep again (if at all). Then up at daylight.
Really sucks…
@macromeh yup, I do that. Late eating and wine consumption do not help. But after a bit I have habit they say is BAD where I watch news on TV. If new news not on yet, watch Sky TV news from England. World politics and also some palace intrigue. So then I do “sleep 2” around 5-6AM but overall not a healthy schedule I fear.
@macromeh @pmarin I don’t believe watching news at night is conducive to tranquilly falling asleep. I think it was no coincidence that in the early days of the big 4 commercial tv networks, the evening news was often sponsored by makers of headache relief. Bayer, anacin, alka seltzer. And that was before it came in gory color.
I had the weirdest dream tonight. There was this woman I didn’t know that entered my home to watch sports. She was really knowledgeable with sports statistics and trivia. She would just spout out some random factoid about a player. Then she would go take a break and go somewhere within my house. I assumed she was trying to rob me. So I tried finding her but I couldn’t. So I came up with elaborate “traps” to bait her into stealing something (putting expensive jewelry on a pedestal but rigging it with a loud buzzer, something she wouldn’t expect at a residential home). It ended up working. She got caught, arrested, then deported from the country. It was a sick dream… and I enjoyed every second of it.
@MeatyYoker factoid means something that isn’t actually true. I liked your dream.
I fall asleep just fine. Around 2-ish, I wake up because apparently that is the time for a good hot flash. I only have the one. Also when I wake up and try to make myself cooler, the littlest dog thinks it is time to get up so he jumps out of bed. Then I have to chase him around the room to put him back on the bed and then attempt to get back to sleep. Hence my problems getting up in the morning
My recurring nightmare is that I am caring for a pet or a baby that I have forgotten about and have not seen in weeks. Very stressful dream!
I have problem falling asleep, staying asleep (due to work injury and pain) then getting up from not sleeping. Lots of time I never enter rem so I’m really tired throughout the day and it’s just a never ending cycle until my body finally crashes. I also have the craziest dreams at times and when pain gets really, really, really bad and I’ve taken a lot of medicine that night I get horrible nightmares.
When I worked at the psych hospital I went through a phase (few weeks) where every night I was lucid dreaming about patients at the psych hospital pinning me down in my bedroom and preforming old school psych procedures on me like labodomies and when I would wake up I was still dreaming and seeing my dreams in front of me in my bedroom (false awakening). It was very terrifying and very exhausting. I would be so terrified I would get out of bed, shaking and sweating and not go back to to bed for hours bc I was afraid go sleep.
I talked with one of the drs at the hospital (who specialized in dreams) he said I was under too much stress and suggested I take a couple days off. He gave me sleeping pills to knock me out of the cycle and it worked. After a few days of taking the sleeping pills and and getting a good nights rest I went back to work and didn’t have the problem again.
@Star2236
Whoa. That sounds terrible! I’m glad the doc was able to help!
/showme life with very spoiled real cats
@mycya4me I’m not sure who looks happier there. The cats seem kind-of nervous like why are we watching them. The lady seems happily dozing. In most cat households the cats are dozing and the human is up taking care of things.
EDIT I do liked the framed cat picture on the wall. The AI is definitely getting better.
It’s the end of the semester and I oversleep because I was up all night. I walk into the final exam late and realize I am naked. OK no that part didn’t really happen but would have been fun.
But yes I got to my 2 hour final about 1 hour late. An upper-divison engr course in something, think it was image processing (yes we did that stuff 40 years ago but with much less computer power). So I walked into the class room and everybody looked up, and I just gave a cheerful “Good Morning!”
@pmarin Did you pass it?
@Kyeh yeah, piece of cake!
@pmarin Cool!
I want to hear the most messed up sleep schedule
Decades ago, a boss of mine had the (annoying) habit of asking everyone how they slept the night before. The usual ritual response was “like a baby”, “like a log”, “out like a light”. One morning, a rather frazzled-looking co-worker responded with “like a tumbleweed”.
I’ve had a few tumbleweed nights.