Sleep

I thought I would tell you all about my alarming sleep patterns, so you can judge whether I've gone strange or not.

I keep going through stages of sleeping an awful lot; it can happen for months, where I can sleep for 14 hours a day, and still feel sleepy. Then, after a few months, I get months where I can't sleep at all, and I lie in bed and don't go to sleep. Sometimes I just stay up all night and read, in the hope that I'll be tired the next night and sleep well. But it doesn't work that way. I'm in a non-sleeping phase right now, and I'm doing an essay that's due in in a couple of hours. It's nearly finished, but I don't know if it's good. But the point is that I'm not tired, and it's weird. I quite like being awake at night though - it's the quietest my flat ever is (there was a sick contest yesterday that I could hear far too vividly, so you'll understand that quietness is sometimes appreciated).

Does anyone else have these strange bouts of awakeness, or sleepyness? Should I be concerned? I don't much like not sleeping, it makes me daydream too much when I should be concentrating. But I don't like sleeping too much either, because I don't get anything useful done.

Well, I'm going to put the finishing touches to my essay, and maybe have a cup of tea, and head off to my morning lectures.

Bye for now

Emma
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Reply 1

galadriel100

15

I have heard, the longer you sleep, the more tired you get. I think we only need 8 hours a day, and it gives us the energy we need. If we sleep for over 8 hours, our energy levels go down.

Reply 2

Kew

16

galadriel100

I have heard, the longer you sleep, the more tired you get. I think we only need 8 hours a day, and it gives us the energy we need. If we sleep for over 8 hours, our energy levels go down.

I've heard that too :smile:

Reply 3

Mad_Monkey59

2

i haven't slept tonite, i have an essay due in and its guna take every spare second to get it done on time :s-smilie:

Reply 4

covered farm wagon

OP

11

Mad_Monkey59

i haven't slept tonite, i have an essay due in and its guna take every spare second to get it done on time :s-smilie:

How did yours go? Mine's not great, I'm off to the computer room in a bit though to print it out. I have to take it to this group tutorial, and one of us is going to have to read our essay out and I pray that it is not me because everyone'll laugh at how I missed the point. Bah.

Reply 5

SilverWings

14

My sleeping patterns are the same!! Finally someone else...

Do you like, sleep for whole weekends and then hardly ever sleep for about three weeks and then sleep WAY too much and way deeply for about a month...

Randomness of my sleep is annoying because i sometimes find myself WIDE AWAKE at night when no one else is and then falling alseep at college... (mind you, that could just be the geography :P)

Reply 6

covered farm wagon

OP

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SIlverWings

My sleeping patterns are the same!! Finally someone else...

Do you like, sleep for whole weekends and then hardly ever sleep for about three weeks and then sleep WAY too much and way deeply for about a month...

Randomness of my sleep is annoying because i sometimes find myself WIDE AWAKE at night when no one else is and then falling alseep at college... (mind you, that could just be the geography :P)

Yes, that is just what I have! It's bizarre, because it's not like random tiredness or wakeyness every now and then; it's like a month of tiredness, then a month of wakeyness... I don't know which one I prefer.

Reply 7

anchemis

1

well... try some natural method first...
warm bath/shower before bed (helps to start the drop in body temp that aids sleep)...
No activity that requires excessive mind power (such as essays, first person shooting games, some TV programs)... normally reading a book would be ok...
A mug of warm milk helps... milk has some proteins that make the sleep chemical in brain (err... cant remember whats it called)
Try a quiet room... with decent curtains (no bed lamps)... warm rooms on cold nights and cold room on hot nights help...

If not... try to take some tablets.... but mind you... getting up after tablets would make you feel sluggish...

Reply 8

SilverWings

14

I prefer the awakeyness, because people tell me Im a lot nicer during those times... But then it IS good to get some sleep after all that time... But sleeping so much means I fall behind at college and the awakeyness makes me ahead!!

I've tried everything to make me sleep but now I just accept that its me and I'll prolly grow outta it...

The wierdest thing for me is how I wont be tired for about 3 week with about 3 hours of sleep a nite max but then, I can be falling asleep in college a week later after being asleep from when I got home the previous day to bout 9 in morn...

Reply 9

scatterbrain

1

If left to its own devices (ie holidays) my body settles down to its ideal sleep patterns of getting tired at 1.00 ish, and then waking up at about 8.30/9.00. Pity school messes all that up, really.

I do get periods of sleeplessness (good word), during exams, which is probably stress. I woke up once before my history gcse reciting something to do with the american presidents too.

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