Topic: Sleep Patterns
started by: RenegadeSnark
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Oregon, n.:
Eighty billion gallons of water with no place to go on Saturday night.
except that i wake up at least 1 time every night
since i only get 5 hours of sleep on average, that wakeup kills me
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Cold medicines that have drowsiness as side-effects are really great for inducing sleep, but I only use these when I actually have a cold. Other meds such as vicodin will help me fall asleep, but as soon as I drift from consciousness into sleep, it's like being thrown into a really bad dream, and half the time I will sit bolt upright and gasp or something. Not fun. Usually I can overcome this and go to sleep, but the dreams are really fucked up and unpleasant, and I wake up worn out.
One thing that I cannot stand when I'm trying to sleep is voices. If someone is watching TV, listening to the radio, or talking on the phone, I can forget about sleeping till they cut that shit out. Even if I can't make out what's being said, my brain won't tune it out. Music is the next most annoying thing. Of course, the best sleep I've ever had has always been during nine hours of complete silence and darkness, which usually I only encounter when I'm backpacking.
As for the wakeup, if my computers are off then I usually can sleep as long as I'd like to. The hum of the fans, however, will wake me up instantly when I start to become more alert in the morning--rolling over and going back to sleep becomes impossible.
I pay a lot of attention to my sleep patterns because I really fucking hate being sleepy during the day. One thing I've noticed and use to my advantage is that if I wake up after about seven hours of sleep, do something (like drive my sister to school...fun), then sleep for a few more hours, those last few hours will be full of lucid dreams. Who doesn't like those?
Fin.
Light has a big effect on sleep, like brain waves take on the same pattern of the light waves.
I can't sleep with music on if I am paying attention to the music, but if it is background noise it just blurs inot the background and is no problem.
Since it is summer and i have no job i haev no diurnal schedule. In fact I went to bed at 6 am and got up at 5 pm today.
Most of the time I'm pretty much inable to maintain a getting up in the morning/going to bed at night cycle. I wake up about 7 AM, I'm then unable to get to sleep until at least 4am that night, the < Banshee Screamer alarm > wakes me up, for about long enough to turn it off and flop back into bed. I'll then sleep until about 6PM. My pattern is then royally upset for the next few days and then the cycle repeats - This is getting quite annoying.
but during the summer... i cant sleep at all. i try to go to bed when im tired, but i cant doze off. especially now because i have a job EVERY OTHER DAY. damn. it sucks. sleep late one night, wake up early the next.
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i used to be really paranoid, when i was littler, of people who were coming to kill me or some stupid shit like that. then i discovered masturbating.
demonstration.
*fap*fap* !!splat!! ..(two seconds later).. *snore*
so needless to say i have slept well for the past three years. every night.
<<getting off track>> I acutally had to start putting my alarm clock in different places each week so that I'd wake up when I tried to turn it off in my sleep and it wasn't there.
<<back on track>>
The only time in the past year I can remember being woken-up was the 7 point earthquake we had (and I went right back to sleep when it was over).
Obviously I'm not normal, so let me give you advice that helps most people.
1) Turn down the heat a little. It's hard to sleep when you're swetting!
2) Get some comfortable sheets. It make all the difference in the world.
3) DUMP THAT BLADDER! It's tough to sleep when you gotta go... even a little.
4) DUMP THAT COLON! Belive it or not... it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to sleep with something up your ass... or so I've been told... 
5) DUMP THAT PROSTAIT! melk0r was right-on on this one!! Wack-off and you'll be out like a light!
6) Listen to cr0bar. He got all the other major points.
Finally... if nothing works... go to the local college and get a sleep study done. Most will do it for free and once the find the cause of the disturbance, it's usually fixed fairly easily.
Oh, and I have about 6 pills of vicatin left if you want to buy it.
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"Thank you, God, for giving us leotards." -Koichi
-< PersonGuy >
I guess i'm the oddball in terms of music too, cause i've found that if I turn something up to a volume level where it becomes part of the room (like, i don't have to strain to hear it, it's just there) that usually helps me fall asleep quicker.
Sleep medication, and for that matter, any medication which is supposed to get you drowsy doesn't seem to really effect me unless I take a double dose. I don't know if it's some physiological aspect or if i'm just good at fighting it off without realizing it, but not too long ago it took me until 1pm to fall asleep, and that was after yawning and being tired the whole previous day, too.
if that fails just drink some beer
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-Arthur Lowe
Music often helps me fall asleep, I prefer instrumental music like Spanish guitar music or some trance stuff. Being at the comp also can help me get tired and fall asleep easily...
either way, it takes me at least 30 minutes to fall asleep, but usually closer to an hour.
i prefer to sleep in the daytime, with some sort of noise going on, and be awake at night when it's quiet. i'm just weird, i guess.
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kuru
'dancing is the vertical expression of horizontal desire.'
-robert frost
I have this thing, I have to admit - Snooker commentry sends me straight unconscious..
que up about 30 minutes of music in winamp, where the songs get progressively softer. that usually calms me down and gets me drowsy.
get the room fairly cold, and have lots of blankets. this works really well for me. i can't stand the heat.
also, it helps to have total darkness. for me though, i don't like total silence. if it's totally silent in my room (which it is often since i'm in the basement), thoughts fill my head to replace the void. also, i have tenitus so if it's quiet then i hear a ringing in my ears which gets louder and louder until i start yelling out expletives.
my favorite environment for sleeping is where there is a soft humming or vibrating noise, like in my dorm. i find it really relaxing. also the sound of rain, or cars in the distance.
Lights, TV, Radio, gun fire, cars, trucks, nothing wakes me up.
Try to sneek up on me and im up, alert, and ready to go. Guess some things from the Army just stay with you.
That and the fucking cat. He just sits there and stares at me from like an inch away. I wake up to this face right in mine. I think he is trying some kitty mind control thing on me(I am your god, you will feed me and clean my litter box, NOW). And he is teaching the other one his tricks. Now i wake up with 2 cat faces in my face. Talk about something to wake up to. I always said i would love to wake up with pussy in my face but this is getting nuts!
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both things! 
What do we learn from this story? - You can sleep everywhere. You just have to be tired enough.
What wakes me up? The cat. All whining and coming in from outside to bring me a dead mouse. Thanks, Tita. That's what I need at 4:30AM.
And, alcohol helps me fall asleep greatly. As well as going to bed late does. I also take my time settling down for bed. I take the contacts out, brush my teeth, change, and watch a little TV while I settle down. That helps a lot too.
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