Not wanting to go to sleep

[CrayZee]

I've had problems getting to sleep in the past. Some of it was/is probably due to having caffine too close to bed time or my mind is too wound up. I try not to have caffine a number of hours before bed.

I have weird issues w/ sleep in that I don't get enough or I get too much (SAD during the winter months). I also have had problems setting and keeping a sleep/wake schedule. I'm not a morning person, so that certainly doesn't help things.

I'm the obnoxious guy that shows up late for "9 a.m. sharp" meetings because it's "too early."

I guess for you, you should just stop fidgeting around w/ blogs, flash games, etc. But you already know that. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Reading something boring, clearing your mind (meditation?), trying to memorize pi or something might help if you can't sleep still.

[miajag]

Turning the computer off is a big help to me. If I'm online I'm overly tempted to keep chatting with people, playing poker, browsing 2+2/Wikipedia/news sites, etc. If I'm just watching TV or reading a book or magazine or whatever I tend to get bored and tired pretty quickly.

[DUI]

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How many of you have this same problem?

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I only have this problem when I've started drinking and don't want to go to bed and just pour another.

Sometimes (usually after cards) I'm so amped up I can't wind down to go to sleep. What I've learned to do now is to Tylenol PM or Ambien it 'cause otherwise I'm not getting to bed anytime soon (like 5AM) and I'll be wrecked for the next day at work.


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[Aloysius]

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Also,

My grandparents have timers on their lights. It works in an outlet (poss for TV?). Just an idea.

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Pretty sure Sleep Timer has been standard on television sets for many years now.

For myself, this never, ever helped.

-Al

[El Diablo]

kid: "Same goes on weekends. I'm often up until 5 with no reason to be, then I sleep wicked late. None of my chores get done and it takes me longer to "get going"." Yeah, weekends are when this is a real problem for me and results in me not doing stuff that I wanted to get done.

All: The best solution I've found to this is really hard workouts. Those days I can usually make myself go to sleep a couple hours sooner than normal.

Al: I dunno. I have the problem for longer than I think I should. Also, it's like doubly bad when sleeping at their place. Obviously it's some sort of trust/fear/insecurity issue.

All: The worst outcome of this is when I'm like tired as hell at 10pm, then fall half asleep for half an hour around 11, then am pumped up and ready to stay awake 'til 4. I'm trying hard to go to sleep as soon as I'm tired enough to go to sleep. Very tough, though. Mainly on weekends, this results on me sleeping on the couch far more often than I should (which is not nearly as restful as my bed).

[cjmewett]

I have the exact same problem and am somewhat surprised to hear that it's so common. As El D says, my problem is often that I'm wasting time doing absolutely nothing productive, like reading message boards about which I couldn't care less, watching stupid tv or shows I've seen a million times, etc. I'm not concerned about the days that I'm up until 3 reading something or studying, but the days when my hours between 12 and 3 were completely unproductive.

For reference, I usually go to sleep some time between 2 and 3 and wake between 7 and 8. Unless I'm in "a mood," I very rarely accomplish anything after 11 or so.

[El Diablo]

t,

"do people do this b/c they feel that they are missing something when they are asleep?"

This is one thing I was hoping to get at with this thread.

There's some innate desire in me that makes me want to do this. I rationally know many times that I won't really get anything out of the thing I'm doing and will be MUCH better off just sleeping, yet I still at some level am compelled to keep myself up. Every rational and logical part of me, however, knows that going to bed is the right thing to do.

[cjmewett]

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t,

"do people do this b/c they feel that they are missing something when they are asleep?"

This is one thing I was hoping to get at with this thread.

There's some innate desire in me that makes me want to do this. I rationally know many times that I won't really get anything out of the thing I'm doing and will be MUCH better off just sleeping, yet I still at some level am compelled to keep myself up. Every rational and logical part of me, however, knows that going to bed is the right thing to do.

[/ QUOTE ]This describes my thought process/feelings about the matter exactly.

[goofball]

Bascially it's an issue of not wanting to change whatever it is I'm doing. If I'm awake, Idon't want to stop. If I'm sleeping, I don't want to stop that either.

The funny thing is whenever I do manage to get up by like 9 or 10 I'm always really glad I did but it almost never happens.

At night, going to sleep just seems so boring.

[Los Feliz Slim]

I just want to say how proud I am of everyone for not suggesting all manner of self-abuse as a way to solve this problem.