Sleep.......

[BabyRider]

Originally Posted by Tan

I can never nap during the day. I feel as though I might miss something.

That's me, too. I hate napping. I feel all muddle-headed the rest of the day! And I worry I might miss something, too! The ol' man and I work afternoons, so our bedtime is usually around 3 am. Sometimes later. Sleep till 10 or 11, and I'm good, but he needs more sleep than I do. If he doesn't get at least 8, he's a bear. And a 240 pound crabby biker is NOT a pleasant thing to deal with!!

[Peg]

I usually go to bed around midnight or 1a.m. and get up between 7 and 8a.m. Usually I take a half hour power nap after work. Lately, all I want to do is sleep. I can sleep 8 hours, take 3 1/2hour naps, and still sleep well at night. Guess it's about time to go to the doctor again.

[minks]

Originally Posted by Peg

I usually go to bed around midnight or 1a.m. and get up between 7 and 8a.m. Usually I take a half hour power nap after work. Lately, all I want to do is sleep. I can sleep 8 hours, take 3 1/2hour naps, and still sleep well at night. Guess it's about time to go to the doctor again.

Week days I usually get 8 hours uninterupted sleep (it pays to be old ahahaha) weekends now that is another I am lucky to get 5 hours....
And Peg if your feeling ultra tired, one of the easiest things to do to correct that, add some extra iron to your diet. Women are especially prone to low iron and when your iron is low your very sleepy. Leaffy green veggies, red meat and beans are a good source. You can take iron pills but make sure they are the glauconate kind as they are easy on the digestion. Kelp and spinnach tablets are good substitutes as well.
If you allow your iron to get too low, you are a prime candicated for anemia, and that takes much longer to correct.

[LottomagicZ4941]

I use to sleep 7 hours a night. But after my employer was sort staffing us cronically I got my sleep destroyed. Durning my FMLA time I got to where I could sleep for 6 hours straight!!!

Well going to sleep soon I hope. Was hoping the kid would wake up to feed before I went to sleep but I'm a getting tired.

If I don't go to sleep when I'm tired I get stuck up.

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[night owl]

I need roughly around 7 hours but you now what, i never seem to get them because i am a insomniac its absolutely terrible sleepless nights and restless days used sleeping drugs but found them to be more problematic than the sleepless nights, yes the side effects...feeling drowsy with a general feeling of malaise.all so the addiction factor that frightens me.
so i just have to make do with the sleep i get like i have had 6 hours sleep in two days feel very rough but hope to get a few more hours later.its not just the falling a sleep but the staying a sleep that's the biggest problem.

[Majenta]

I go through phases of getting 8-9 hours then having horrible insomnia for months when I only get about 4-5 most nights. It's weird though, cos other than it being really annoying when I'm tossing and turning half the night, it doesn't bother me.

I had to read about sleep patterns as part of my degree (psychology), and they've done studies that seem to show that people can function perfectly normally on about 5 hours once you've got into a regular routine. Less than that and things like memory and problem solving abilities start to be affected...but there was this one case study about a woman who slept only one hour a night and was fine, not even ever tired! weird...

[night owl]

Originally Posted by Majenta

I go through phases of getting 8-9 hours then having horrible insomnia for months when I only get about 4-5 most nights. It's weird though, cos other than it being really annoying when I'm tossing and turning half the night, it doesn't bother me.

I had to read about sleep patterns as part of my degree (psychology), and they've done studies that seem to show that people can function perfectly normally on about 5 hours once you've got into a regular routine. Less than that and things like memory and problem solving abilities start to be affected...but there was this one case study about a woman who slept only one hour a night and was fine, not even ever tired! weird...

so you are a psychology student then i wish you well with that.
you seem to suffer from periodical insomnia, yeah i wish i did,I love the night always have and when i was a student it never bothered me that much also. but when you have work in the morning that becomes a pain in other areas. you go in to work and your work colleges look at you nuff to say you been on the juice last night, yeah you can look that bad.some times any how if i cant sleep i just go and sit by the widow looking out at the stars, this is pretty relaxing, alternatively i will play the guitar or just read a book {i am a book worm}.this helps some times.
interesting in what you said concerning that woman in that case study who needed just one hour sleep amazing, i never know that was possible. I would malfunction in circa two days.

[chrisb84uk]

I used to find getting to sleep really hard because I just had so much going through my mind that sleep wasn't possible. That's why i now tend to go to be at about 1am and have found myself nodding off too sleep much easier. I'm lucky as I can get around 8 1/2 hours of sleep a day, but that's thanks to being a student (and a very lazy one at that )