ha ha, suckers, I still have to set the alarm to wake up at 11:30!! I would wake up before 1, definitely. admittedly, I'm sick. sometimes when I'm very ill I'll sleep like 14 hours a night for several days. there's not very much time left to do anything. I could get up at a normal person hour if I went to sleep at 8pm. but since then I would never see my husband, I go to bed at 11 or midnight and sleep in till however late I can on a given day. usually 10:30 or something. my maid gets the kids ready for school, and my husband takes them. awww, yeah, this is the good shit.
old people often have this problem bad, where they wake up at 4am and can't go back to sleep. that would be horrible. I don't drink or take drugs; the experience of waking up, realizing it's only 10, and going back to sleep for a while is really great and intoxicating. I need a vice, otherwise I'd have to start smoking.
What time do you go to bed? 7:30 is just fine with me. I get up at 5:45 for work. In the summer I naturally wake up around then and then doze if I don't have to do anything.
What time do you go to bed?
I'm rarely in bed before 1am, but that's roughly the time I aim to be in bed.
1: I comfort myself with the knowledge that I am not missing out on the crucial parent-child bonding that comes from yelling "Get out of bed right now or I'm only packing spinach in your lunch!"
I used to be unable to sleep past 5:30 or so. Now, I struggle most days to get up at 7:00.
Find a nice barista and settle down. A year of being woken three times a night has left me able to sleep as late as I can.
I don't think my ability to sleep in has changed...
I blame the cats. They want to be fed once it's light out, and once I've gotten up and fed them (or just gotten up to get them away from the bed), I figure I might as well make myself breakfast and stay up. My partner has no trouble sleeping until noon, though I worry that it's because she's sleeping poorly and really needs that many hours.
I find it hard to sleep later than 9 lately. But it's context-dependent; if I visit my parents, I can revert to teenage habits and sleep until noon.
"some shit done", wait until you hit 40 and that will become a problem as well ;-(
"some shit done", wait until you hit 40 and that will become a problem as well
Hellooo, that's been a problem since 20.
Today is [a redacted mystery!] [Knecht] is much older than 30, and he has no problem sleeping in. He naps more frequently than he did in our younger years, but aging and sleeping seem to go hand in hand for him. My switch has been tampered with by kids and pets. I was thrilled to discover when we went away to family wedding with out the girls that I was still able to sleep for 12 hours continuously. The next day I felt refreshed, happy, and oh so easy going. Kind of like what I was like before I had kids and pets.
I go to sleep at about 10 or 11 am, and sleep till 6ish, with the occasional massive overshoot. I love not waking up to an alarm, but I miss the day. I work from 1 am to 9 am. I've been baking for two years now, and I can sleep pretty much whenever I want to, for as long as I want. Its my bedtime now, as a matter of fact.
Wow. I think not seeing daylight regularly would make me depressed. Do you do lightboxes or anything?
In my first neighborhood in Chicago, I'd walk the dog before work circa 8am. Each morning I'd pass an old Irish guy,* a Chicago cop no less, who'd be sitting on his front porch, coffee cup in hand. I'd invariably stop to chat with him, because he was a nice guy and my pup loved him. So over time I learned that he was on his front porch each morning because he had just gotten off shift and was preparing for bed, and that that was whisky in his coffee cup.
*This guy was basically Brian Dennehy's twin.
I stopped being able to sleep past 8 am when I was about 28 unless I'm completely exhausted. But it might not be physical. I wake up and start a mental list of the things I have to do and this makes me unable to sleep. On the plus side, I get a few hours of work done while my husband is still sleeping.
Oh it all depends if there's an office or lunch with friends waiting outside the door. On workdays I pry my eyes open when the alarm goes off at 8:01 and feel like I'm made of lead. Tired, unhappy lead. Of a weekend, I think I'm going to sleep 'til noon for the sake of luxury and occasionally do, but more often roll out of bed with no sore feelings at 9.
Not in the Unfoggedverse, of course. But wasn't that fun?
I am Alameida, except without the kids, spouse, or maid. Also, I have to be at work by 9 AM. That is hard. Age has not made me need less sleep. I concluded long ago that I was an alien from a planet with a 30 to 33 hour rotation.
How to sleep. Some of you may find this useful information.
I hope he eventually removed the milk from the stove.
Oh, I can sleep still, no problem. C doesn't seem to be able to lie in any longer though. I sleep very much better though if there are no children in the house, or if I am somewhere without them.
I'm doing a sleep study tonight. For the apnea. Probably have to get a C-PAP. Which will be a drag. But I've been sleeping 10 or 12 hours a night and waking up fatigued, so even the horrible C-PAP will presumably be an improvement.
It will be an interesting experience. I don't think I'll be able to liveblog it, sadly. Unfortunately, for some obscure medical reason, I'm going to have to have an IV thingy in my wrist half the night. That does not sound fun.
Good luck, Nat. FWIW, UNG had the surgery (chiefly for emotionally manipulative reasons, but still) and it reportedly has helped quite a bit. Also, if you want it (and there's a way to adequately decontaminate the thing) I still have his C-PAP. I really have no idea what to do with the damn thing, but throwing it out seems ver.
Thanks, Di. I'm assuming the insurance will pay for the bulk of the C-PAP, but I'll let you know. The PA I talked to said he usually recommended against the surgery, except as an absolute last resort, as the risk of complications, and the risk of it basically not working, were significant enough to contraindicate it for most people.
I have friends and relatives who have C-PAPs, and they all swear by them, so we'll see.
28: I think my brother likes his C-PAP largely because it merits him a mega Ambien prescription.
Ambien with a CPAP sounds good. The machine should prevent you from sleepwalking, sleepeating, sleepdriving, sleepspreekilling, etc.
Insomnia merited me an Ambien script. Did jack shit for me. Very disappointing.
I did the sleep study thing about four months ago, not believing I had a problem. Turns out I was stopping breathing (for at least 8 seconds) something like 80 times in an hour, with the longest episode being 44 seconds. The c-pap is a bit of a pain to put on just as you're falling asleep, but I sleep so much better with it. Bonus is I think it helps me breath better throughout the day, because I'm in the habit of deeper breathing.
I just met a doctor who treated apnea. If I'd have known there was interest, I could have asked him if there is a secret cure or something.
Just now there was a TV commercial for sleep apnea treatment. I'M BEING SURROUNDED BY APNEANS!
It's like bedbugs, except you are kept awake by noise not itching.
14: I get a lot of light in the morning, I take a quick break at work to watch the sunrise. Here in Maine, being so far east in the timezone, the sun comes up early, even in the darkest days. The latest sunrise is around 7 am, it goes down at 4, though.
I'M BEING SURROUNDED BY APNEANS!
"Take your stinking mask off me, you damn dirty apnean!"
sleep apnea sounds like it really sucks, so, sorry dudes. much better to be diagnosed/getting some treatment than not, though. I'm curious do people with this problem always snore? is it something your partner (if there should be one) is likely to notice first?
You can tell because your partner goes to sleep on the couch even when you haven't been an asshole.
IANAD, but I've been told that there isn't always snoring and that snoring doesn't always indicate sleep apnea. My wife noticed that I was not breathing at times, while I, being asleep, did not, so that was the impetus for the test. Other folks go for testing, because, like Natilo, they feel tired all the time, despite getting enough sleep. It can be tricky, particularly if you have other health issues going on at the same time, to figure out that the sleep apnea is why your brain has progressively been turning to mush.
It is either sleep apnea or those little brain worm things like in "Wrath of Khan."
41: Well, I have been pretty suggestible lately.
37: You should probably wash that mask. It's been in my nose for a while, and I can't smell it anymore.
OT: A young Winona Ryder holding a gun is a sight for the ages.
Are you using your Ich Luge bullets again, Moby?
I missed that part. I just saw the end.