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Dervacumen:

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--- Quote from: pinballjim on April 28, 2011, 05:21:00 pm ---You can sleep when you're dead, embrace your waking hours.

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Which is fine, so long as you don't believe that the candle which burns twice as bright, burns half as long.  The body also needs time to repair itself, and much of that comes during sleep. 

Different individuals require different amounts of sleep as well.  Dervacumen, how is the lack of sleep affecting you otherwise?  If the answer is "not much", then perhaps you just don't require as much as others.  Also, don't let the stress of knowing that you need to get back to sleep, and can't, make it become a self fulfilling prophesy.  I feel for anyone in this situation, as I know that the sense of helplessness can be excruciating.



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The effect is significant, I'm sure.  When I get a good night sleep the alacrity I possess the next day is tremendously higher.  I overcame the stress of not sleeping being a self fulfilling prophecy along time ago, so now instead of worrying about not sleeping I just get up and do something else.  If I didn't have to worry about waking up the house I probably wouldn't mind it as much but the last thing I want it to wake someone else up.  That would be cruel.  And lately I've been semi comfortable laying in bed deeply resting but not sleeping for a couple hours.  It's actually refreshing in an odd way.
Last night I was awoken by my daughter at 1:30am after going to bed at about 9:15pm.  I then laid awake almost falling asleep several times until at least about 4:00am.  That's the last I remember seeing a clock anyway, something I try to avoid.  I was awoken again at 6:28 and decided to get out of bed at 6:40pm.  Now it's 8:50pm.

Yes, it's 6 1/2 hours which gets me by, but man, it's not even close to being refreshing.


Dervacumen:

--- Quote from: DillonFoulds on April 28, 2011, 09:57:27 pm ---What about polyphasic sleeping?

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I've thought about this a lot over the years and it could be but I don't think so because I usually wake up due to an audible event and then can't get back to sleep.
What sucks about that scenario is that most employers I've come across don't dig it so much.

RandyT:

--- Quote from: Dervacumen on April 30, 2011, 11:59:03 pm ---Last night I was awoken by my daughter at 1:30am after going to bed at about 9:15pm. 

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You don't have insomnia, you have "kids" :)  I think I would probably have difficulty going back to sleep if I was made fully awake after 4 hours of sleep, as well.  Sounds like you are doing the right thing in resting in place, instead of getting up.  If you are up and down all night, your internal clock could be genuinely screwed up.  Perhaps forcing yourself to resist the urge to get up, and continuing the "deep rest" until you eventually sleep (no matter how long it takes), for a couple of weeks, will result in your body getting into a more reliable cycle.  It's tough to do this with the little ones interrupting, though.


Dervacumen:

--- Quote from: jennifer on April 29, 2011, 05:21:29 pm ---
         That was so funny...... OMG, snort,snort

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I read it again and again.  And then again.  And then I dissected it and R E A D it.  I don't G E T it, but that's nothing new.

Dervacumen:

--- Quote from: RandyT on May 01, 2011, 12:18:48 am ---
--- Quote from: Dervacumen on April 30, 2011, 11:59:03 pm ---Last night I was awoken by my daughter at 1:30am after going to bed at about 9:15pm.

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You don't have insomnia, you have "kids" :)  I think I would probably have difficulty going back to sleep if I was made fully awake after 4 hours of sleep, as well.  Sounds like you are doing the right thing in resting in place, instead of getting up.  If you are up and down all night, your internal clock could be genuinely screwed up.  Perhaps forcing yourself to resist the urge to get up, and continuing the "deep rest" until you eventually sleep (no matter how long it takes), for a couple of weeks, will result in your body getting into a more reliable cycle.  It's tough to do this with the little ones interrupting, though.



I agree continuing the deep rest is sort of working.  It is hard because of the RLS symptoms though.  Nice thing is I don't need any coffee or tea to wake me up.   Iv'e been working on this for about 2 months now and it's getting better.
If I could get my kid to not wake us up and I could get my really frickin' insanely loud meowin' cat to STFU it would help.  But again, this was going on long before I had a kid.  Longer than I've known my wife, actually.



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