Insomnia?

[kfttjdb]

It's very early in the morning where I live and I'm not in bed. Why? Well because I couldn't sleep. Insomnia, perhaps? Does anyone on the board suffer from this at times? If you do, what do you do to combat it? What do you think causes it?

I could go back to bed, but I'm afraid to. I guess that's a different story...

[resurie]

Well, I don't know if it's insomnia, but lately I've been extremely tired. I usually go to bed pretty early, and I sleep through the whole night. But when I need to wake up to go to school, I just can't. I feel incredibly tired and sleepy. It's a mission for me to wake up and get ready.

Then at school, I usually end up falling asleep in class. Always the first three periods, sometimes I fall asleep in the last ones too. I really don't know what's wrong with me.

[Throes]

res: I think that what you're experiencing is the exact opposite of insomnia. According to Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, insomia is "prolonged and usually abnormal inability to obtain adequate sleep". And since it seems you've recieved more than adequite sleep, it's not insomnia.

Renna: Honesly, the time of your post (3:51 A.M. Central time) is only about 10 minutes before I hunkered down for sleep. During the summer, I usually stayed up until 5, or maybe 6 in the morning, and sometimes even 7! However, school changed that, also, when I'm at my dads, he forces me to go to bed early (i.e. 1:00, maybe 2:00 in the morning). He's even felt obligated so to tell me to go to bed at around 3.

To be honest, I just don't like sleep. It makes you waste too many precious hours of your lifetime. You know, the average person who gets 8 hours of sleep a night spends 1/3 of their lifetime sleeping? It's true. Jhonen Vasquez puts it best: "Z?" (Question Sleep)

[Lobsterdeth]

I sleep at three o clock cause I've insomnia.

When I wake up my eyes feel like they're gonna bleed.

[Gus]

Hmm. I generally sleep more than enough, yet am still tired... but yah, recently I've woken up too much. The dry air from the heaters, I say. It f**ks with ya.

[kfttjdb]

Throes: I had actually been awake since 2:00am CT. That's one of the times I usually wake up in the middle of the night. Every night. But I usually wake up 4-6 times during the night.

[s91/S-chan/DoomStick]

Before I went to public school I often spent most of the day sleeping and most of the night awake, I even did most of my work for home school at night, I was always able to pay more attention to it and get stuff easier, during the day I seem to have more of a two track mind.

Everything is easier for me to do at night from art fanfictions and studying.

But not that I'm in a public school I have to get up at 6 AM and crap. Back in the summer I would spend a good bit of the time awake all night sleeping most of the day. I didn't have about 3 days were no matter how tired I was I couldn't fall asleep or stay asleep, I think it might have been the heat because at the time there was a lot of heat darning the day and the night. Since I had just moved from a small town with hardly no cars and less air pollution (though I DID see a three tailed lizard... probably from nuclear pollution) anyway it was a bit more humid and my body was still adjusting.

only ways I could think of to keep yourself on a day time schedule would be
Get something to do during the day ( even if it is just TV)
and maybe also if you have a heater on, turn it off... if it's cold just get a heating blanket (or mattress pad)... it's a good idea so long as you don't sleep with you mouth open... which would probably lead to a sore throat.
If you can't turn the heat all the way off just start off putting the heater on low for about a week and up the temperature every few nights... that might work.

Like Resurie I could sleep from 9 PM to 6 AM and still be falling asleep all day, normally I fall asleep when the teachers make us watch videos @_@, lucky for me though I have chorus 3rd period so it wakes me up some. (mostly because one of my friends sometimes brings coffee candy *.* )

[Ashil]

insomnia is my middle name. im up until 4ish maybe 5am, and strangly, i could probaly be up all thru the night. but i force myself into bed since the parental is up at 4am.

[TakinawaTonfa]

Alls I can say is that you should never drink anything caffinated late at night.

Even then, its probably one of those things thats common sense....yet it still happens...

[MetaKnight]

I always thought insomnia is when you can't go to sleep period. It could be that you're feeling a bit restless at night (happens to me sometimes). Try doing something that calms you down or bores you to sleep.

[Throes]

I guess this is somewhat of a good example of insomnia. Last night, I hunkered down for bed at around 12:30 A.M. (considering that I had school the next day, today). I was not only listening to music (which calms you down) but I had been playing iPod solitare, which quickly tires me. Either way, I ended up staying up for a half hour (consciously, that means I know I am up) after when I intended to fall into sleep. Listening to music calms people down supposedly, so how long would it have been if I hadn't had music?

[wannabeeliza]

Well its a combination thing...

I'm sleeping in a new bed and its just not that comfy so I toss and turn alot more than usual. And I dont fell like I've slept unless I've drempt but thats not been happining so its a little futial. I always feel like Im not getting enough sleep. (Strange I thought 8-10 hours was enough) Dont get me wrong I stop sleeping so much, just latly its hard to sleep but I still try.

But sometimes I do stay up. And then Im like I slept in and have lots of energy but when the sun comes up I just start to crash and burn.

During the summer I have insomina and sometimes I have it during school and I just go to school with no sleep... (Someone's even said I looked like Faust, with my bags so bad...) *sigh*

[pendragon99]

pfft... i know i have it.. i havn't been able get more than 2 hours sleep the last two days

and yet i am still on the computer

i have turned into a vampire.. i swear it i can't stand the light and only come out of my bedroom during the night

im going to have so much trouble going to school on the ninth when we have to go back >.< >.>