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Anybody else have problems sleeping at night? I can't remember the last time that I slept through the entire night! :(

me me me!!! i usually wake up around 3 or 4....

I usually wake up 3 or 4 times if I can even get to sleep. :(

I'm not an insomniac, but I don't get sleepy 'til some time between midnight and 1:00am. Even if I know I have to wake up super early, I won't fall asleep early the night before. I'll just toss and turn in bed, or end up watching TV 'til midnight or 1:00am.

me!
I have a lot of trouble sleeping if I know that I have to be up early. I don't know what I'm going to do once I get a job! It's especially if I'm nervous about something (I have an interview in the morning or an exam).

I get up around 4:30am every day when my husbands alarm goes off for work. You'd think that I would be tired enough by the end of the day that I would crawl into bed and die.

Maybe I can't sleep because I think too much. :(

Does not being able to get to sleep till 2 or 3 count? Other than that, I always sleep as long as possible!

When you get to sleep do you stay asleep for a long time or do you keep waking up?

I'm generally up late...hell, the best shows come on after Midnight : Street Smarts, Elimidate, Blind Date....LOL

I don't wake up unless I have to (and even then I sometimes don't!)

yeah you don't count...

Man, this thread is for me! I just flat out can't sleep! I sleep in very disjointed patterns. I am awake at odd times. I have no pattern to it. It stinks! Not to mention wrecks havoc on my school schedule! :(

I've always had problems with insomnia. I think that I can count on one hand the number of times I've fallen asleep before 2 this year . . . usually it's closer to 3, and lately it's been falling more in the 4-6 range. Thank god I'm still in college and I can sleep till 10, but I have no idea what will happen to me once I get a job where I have to wake up at 6!

Insomia means you can't get to sleep. :( I think they're are different types of it. I usually don't fall asleep before 3 am at the earlierest.

I haven't slept through the night without the assistance of PM drugs (Tylenol PM, Excedrin PM, etc) in over 4 years. And even then I get up and cannot go back to sleep at least twice a week....

haven't slept without prescription drugs in 7 years.....

Maybe I'll pick up some Tylenol PM. :)

i'm checking in. i'm up late almost every night.

I haven't been to bed before 4am in MONTHS!! It doesn't matter what time I get up, if I go out at night, or whatnot. I cannot get myself to go to bed before then. Somethings wrong with me.

Ah...I feel at home now. It's good to know I'm not the only one. On the weekends, I'm OK since I go out and tend to stay up later and have a few drinks before going home to bed. But I can't remember the last time I made it through a weeknight without waking up at least a couple of times, usually at 2 or 3 in the morning. Of course, this is all assuming I can fall asleep at a decent hour, which doesn't happen very often either. I think like AOX81, I just think too much when I'm in bed. My body will be exhausted, but my brain is still going 100 miles an hour--and usually not even thinking about anything important, but stupid crap like various songs running through my head or something. Maybe it's time to look into Nytol.

So, yeah, I can't sleep and I don't want to take Tylenol PM.

Anyone else still awake?

yup

word up my brethren of the night

I'll be awake for another five or six hours. :mad:

Why?!

Just curious :)

I can usually go to sleep easily, but I can't STAY asleep. I can be dog tired, go to sleep, and sleep for a BIG 45 minutes. Then I am wide awake, even though I am tired. I don't sleep very soundly, either. I have real vivid dreams and sometimes they will wake me up and then I can't drop back off again. I sometimes take Excederin PM or Percogesic so I can stay asleep, but they tend to make me groggy in the morning when I HAVE to get up.

Bleah, I hate this isht.:mad:

That's my problem, too! Last night, I took some Tylenol PM and this morning, I was dragging butt majorly. My mom made some snide comment on how horrible I looked, so I shot her the look that could kill. She didn't say anything else... :)

It's hard when you have to work with a parent...

I'm on this medication that has completely thrown off my sleep schedule. Somehow, it has managed to make me sleepy whenever I shouldn't be (like whenever the sun is out) and wide awake when it's dark out. My friends are starting to joke that I've turned into a vampire . . .

Fortunately I'm not working or in school right now, but in another week I start my summer classes, so I'm going to have to work something out by then. :)

Eeek!

I hope things get worked out before you go back to class. I can't even imagine how that would work...

Come on, insomniacs, we're having a chat!

Yeah, I'm glad school is out so at least I don't have to get up so early for work. My water aerobics class meets MWF at 8:30 - that's not too early, and I can come home and go back to bed if I want. It rained almost all day today and was fairly cool; if it's raining or too cold in the morning, I'm not going (it's an outdoor pool)
Last night I had a dream about a friend of mine getting a new house. It was a real cute house, but I went inside and there were all these little frogs on the floor. I HATE frogs - they were very small and very white with black polka dots. I started screaming at her "GET THEM OUT OF HERE!!" I ran out of the house and then I woke up.

I know - I'm weird!! That's an example of the dreams I have.


edited to add: OK, I guess everyone else has gone to bed. It's after 1, so I guess I'll try to go to sleep.. But I may be back in about 45 minutes if I wake back up.....

Me! My entire life I have had tons of trouble falling asleep... which means I have also had tons of toruble getting up!

We were chatting on AIM. I totally missed this message somehow, so I didn't even know you were still awake. Sorry, Lizz! :)

Can I be an honorary insomniac if I'm still up this late after getting up at 7am yesterday morning and I'm still not super sleepy? :)

Hello my sleep-issued friends! My problems started fall semester and have gotten increasingly worse. Last semester I would get up reasonably early in the morning after waking up 20 times during the night, function okay all day, go over to Lee's, fall asleep at like 8:00, and have him wake me up at 2. I'd then drive home, go to sleep (or try), and wake up 30 bajillion times.

Now I just can't fall asleep at night, no matter how tiring my day was - and I wake up about 2 times, but I've been having nightmares, so then I wake up more. :(

What is insomnioc?

Hell, I dont sleep if lucky 4/5 hrs a day!

Damn Kids, wait da till you get old, you cannot sleep at all!

I leave TV on All Nite so I can see wah it is on!:)

Ah as they say in My geno, sh*t be happenin!!!!:D

I'm a night owl/insomniac! I'll be dog tired, and then get in my bed and end up still awake an hour or two later. It's like I can't shut my mind up - always thinking of anything and everything! Then when I finally do go to sleep, I have vivid dreams or nightmares. Sometimes my dreams are so busy, I wake up feeling even worse then when I went to bed! I rarely take sleep aids - just survive on 3-6 hours each night. Usually DH lets me sleep late on Saturday mornings and I guess I catch up on it all then! Looking forward to the rest of this summer when I won't have to get up! Put a box of cereal out and let the girls have at it!

I'm surprised that I'm not an insomniac. Having worked in a call center for the past 17 months, I've worked every shift know to man

Like 2 weeks ago, my shift was 12-9pm, now it's 7am-4pm. Having my shift changed every 4 weeks really screws up my sleep pattern.

STUPID JET LAG!!!

***BUMP***

I went to sleep at midnight and, thanks to the windows rattling from the wind, woke up at 2:00. Haven't been able to get back to sleep.

It's too "cold" to sleep.