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Hi Lucy, same here. Insomnia since childhood, perfected in uni, lol.So I've been inflicted with Insomnia for about 10 years now, I'm actually now conditioned to being okay with four hours of sleep, usually I'll be up each day at 9am, again conditioned.
This began when I was about 16 years-old, why I'm not sure. However, when I was at University, this is where the conditioning began, especially during exam times, I managed on four hours of sleep, like many of the other students, and still performed the exams well.
I know Tilly also is inflicted with Insomnia....maybe some others are, but I've missed any comments they might have made about this situation.
I've had bouts of insomnia for most of my adult life. I spend the sleepless parts of the night reading. Insomnia has allowed me to read more books than I would have otherwise.
I used to skip sleep at uni with no problem. I still do it occasionally, but usually deliberately in an attempt to reset my clock. However, although it works, after a few days to a week I'm back to the usual routine, so it's not worth the effort unless it's for a specific reason.I have had this problem since childhood. I will get about 4 hours of sleep on a good night. Sometimes it gets really bad and I'm up for 36-48 hours straight. Eventually I shut down and sleep for 18-20 hours. I tried otc products like sleep aid but it takes 4 or 5 to actually make me fall asleep. About the only thing I haven't tried is seeing a psychiatrist.
I stay in bed. There's a reading light set up above the bed and the headboard is a bookcase! Happily, my reading does not disturb my husband.Do you just stay in your room or do you get out of bed once you wake up?I've had bouts of insomnia for most of my adult life. I spend the sleepless parts of the night reading. Insomnia has allowed me to read more books than I would have otherwise.
I did the same. Resisted getting a kindle as I adore real books, but when I got a boat, space is so precious I gave in and got the kindle. Also can read in the dark so no need to waste the electricity on the boat. Kindles are a godsend.I stay in bed. There's a reading light set up above the bed and the headboard is a bookcase! Happily, my reading does not disturb my husband.Do you just stay in your room or do you get out of bed once you wake up?I've had bouts of insomnia for most of my adult life. I spend the sleepless parts of the night reading. Insomnia has allowed me to read more books than I would have otherwise.
You have to get a Kindle Paper White.
I go in the back yard or anywhere else I want and read.
I resisted for years but I'm very glad I gave into tech when it comes to books.
Just think about it...you're laying in bed and you finish a book you know has a sequel,turn off airplane mode,order your book and you're reading the sequel in thirty seconds. And if you're a Prime member you get a shitload of free books,of course that costs around 80 bucks a year but I read far more than that.
I'll never give up my Paper White.
I did the same. Resisted getting a kindle as I adore real books, but when I got a boat, space is so precious I gave in and got the kindle. Also can read in the dark so no need to waste the electricity on the boat. Kindles are a godsend.I stay in bed. There's a reading light set up above the bed and the headboard is a bookcase! Happily, my reading does not disturb my husband.Do you just stay in your room or do you get out of bed once you wake up?I've had bouts of insomnia for most of my adult life. I spend the sleepless parts of the night reading. Insomnia has allowed me to read more books than I would have otherwise.
You have to get a Kindle Paper White.
I go in the back yard or anywhere else I want and read.
I resisted for years but I'm very glad I gave into tech when it comes to books.
Just think about it...you're laying in bed and you finish a book you know has a sequel,turn off airplane mode,order your book and you're reading the sequel in thirty seconds. And if you're a Prime member you get a shitload of free books,of course that costs around 80 bucks a year but I read far more than that.
I'll never give up my Paper White.
Hi, HWGA, We don't actually live on it, although last year we took time out and spent 6 months on it to experience Autumn and some of the winter to see if we could live on it, as we were thinking of selling the house, and living on the boat whilst house hunting, so as not to be in a chain. We will probably do that next year, it's work that's the problem, ie mooring somewhere practicable. This isn't a sail boat, btw, it's a 70ft canal boat, so mostly for inland waterways and coastal waterways.. Not exciting like a sailboat, but great fun.I did the same. Resisted getting a kindle as I adore real books, but when I got a boat, space is so precious I gave in and got the kindle. Also can read in the dark so no need to waste the electricity on the boat. Kindles are a godsend.I stay in bed. There's a reading light set up above the bed and the headboard is a bookcase! Happily, my reading does not disturb my husband.Do you just stay in your room or do you get out of bed once you wake up?I've had bouts of insomnia for most of my adult life. I spend the sleepless parts of the night reading. Insomnia has allowed me to read more books than I would have otherwise.
You have to get a Kindle Paper White.
I go in the back yard or anywhere else I want and read.
I resisted for years but I'm very glad I gave into tech when it comes to books.
Just think about it...you're laying in bed and you finish a book you know has a sequel,turn off airplane mode,order your book and you're reading the sequel in thirty seconds. And if you're a Prime member you get a shitload of free books,of course that costs around 80 bucks a year but I read far more than that.
I'll never give up my Paper White.
Wait...you live on a boat?
Aww hell I'm jealous!!! The wife and I are considering doing the same.
Maybe hopping around the Caribbean until we get tired of it.
Thought about a circumnavigation in our younger days but I dont see it as we get older.
Hi, HWGA, We don't actually live on it, although last year we took time out and spent 6 months on it to experience Autumn and some of the winter to see if we could live on it, as we were thinking of selling the house, and living on the boat whilst house hunting, so as not to be in a chain. We will probably do that next year, it's work that's the problem, ie mooring somewhere practicable. This isn't a sail boat, btw, it's a 70ft canal boat, so mostly for inland waterways and coastal waterways.. Not exciting like a sailboat, but great fun.I did the same. Resisted getting a kindle as I adore real books, but when I got a boat, space is so precious I gave in and got the kindle. Also can read in the dark so no need to waste the electricity on the boat. Kindles are a godsend.I stay in bed. There's a reading light set up above the bed and the headboard is a bookcase! Happily, my reading does not disturb my husband.Do you just stay in your room or do you get out of bed once you wake up?
You have to get a Kindle Paper White.
I go in the back yard or anywhere else I want and read.
I resisted for years but I'm very glad I gave into tech when it comes to books.
Just think about it...you're laying in bed and you finish a book you know has a sequel,turn off airplane mode,order your book and you're reading the sequel in thirty seconds. And if you're a Prime member you get a shitload of free books,of course that costs around 80 bucks a year but I read far more than that.
I'll never give up my Paper White.
Wait...you live on a boat?
Aww hell I'm jealous!!! The wife and I are considering doing the same.
Maybe hopping around the Caribbean until we get tired of it.
Thought about a circumnavigation in our younger days but I dont see it as we get older.
Lizards share sleep patterns with humans, according to scientists. Until now, it was thought features of human sleep such as rapid eye movements were seen only in mammals and birds. Now, a study of the bearded dragon - a popular pet - suggests these distinctive sleep rhythms emerged hundreds of million of years ago in a distant ancestor. They could even have been present in dinosaurs, say scientists. Some form of sleep has been described in everything from worms to people. But the sleep phases of humans and birds are very distinctive, involving cycles of deep (slow-wave) sleep, followed by awake-like brain activity and rapid eye movement (REM).
Faster rhythm
German researchers recorded the brain activity of bearded dragons when they were sleeping. They found that similar to humans and other mammals, the reptiles showed cycles of eye movements and deep sleep. However, while humans typically go through four or five 90-minute cycles of slow-wave sleep and REMs, the lizard sleep rhythm is faster and more regular, resulting in hundreds of much shorter cycles. And in lizards the activity seems to originate from a different brain area from mammals. "Although similar to mammalian sleep, lizard slow-wave sleep and REMs resemble a stripped-down version of the richer mammalian repertoire," the scientists write in the journal Science.
Common ancestor
The fact that reptiles, birds and mammals share similar sleep patterns suggests these evolved in a common ancestor some 300 to 320 million years ago. At the time, the land was ruled by amniotes - a class of four-legged, backboned animal that laid eggs protected by amniotic membranes. "Those were probably small and lizard-like animals," said lead researcher Dr Gilles Laurent of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany. "They lived between 300 and 320 million years ago, at a time when the earth's continents formed a single land mass." It could be that the true source was even more ancient, he added. "This would require evidence of REMs and slow-wave sleep from amphibians or fish, which has so far been negative," he said. "But it may be worth checking again."
Ancient origin
Lizard sleep may be similar to the sleep patterns of our ancestors, said Dr Laurent. And lizards might even dream in a rudimentary way. Asked if dinosaurs slept, he said: "I wish I knew but it seems likely that they expressed REM and slow-wave sleep." Thanos Siapas, professor of computation and neural systems at Caltech, California, who was not involved in the research, said it shed new light into how the architecture of sleep evolved. "The data and analysis are very compelling and suggest an ancient origin of the two alternating stages of sleep, REM and slow-wave sleep," he said. "Comparing the circuit mechanisms and role of these network events across species may provide critical new insights into their function."
Lizards share sleep patterns with humans - BBC News
A boat? What kind?I did the same. Resisted getting a kindle as I adore real books, but when I got a boat, space is so precious I gave in and got the kindle. Also can read in the dark so no need to waste the electricity on the boat. Kindles are a godsend.I stay in bed. There's a reading light set up above the bed and the headboard is a bookcase! Happily, my reading does not disturb my husband.Do you just stay in your room or do you get out of bed once you wake up?I've had bouts of insomnia for most of my adult life. I spend the sleepless parts of the night reading. Insomnia has allowed me to read more books than I would have otherwise.
You have to get a Kindle Paper White.
I go in the back yard or anywhere else I want and read.
I resisted for years but I'm very glad I gave into tech when it comes to books.
Just think about it...you're laying in bed and you finish a book you know has a sequel,turn off airplane mode,order your book and you're reading the sequel in thirty seconds. And if you're a Prime member you get a shitload of free books,of course that costs around 80 bucks a year but I read far more than that.
I'll never give up my Paper White.
That's massive! I didnt realize you'd done so well!Hi, HWGA, We don't actually live on it, although last year we took time out and spent 6 months on it to experience Autumn and some of the winter to see if we could live on it, as we were thinking of selling the house, and living on the boat whilst house hunting, so as not to be in a chain. We will probably do that next year, it's work that's the problem, ie mooring somewhere practicable. This isn't a sail boat, btw, it's a 70ft canal boat, so mostly for inland waterways and coastal waterways.. Not exciting like a sailboat, but great fun.I did the same. Resisted getting a kindle as I adore real books, but when I got a boat, space is so precious I gave in and got the kindle. Also can read in the dark so no need to waste the electricity on the boat. Kindles are a godsend.I stay in bed. There's a reading light set up above the bed and the headboard is a bookcase! Happily, my reading does not disturb my husband.Do you just stay in your room or do you get out of bed once you wake up?
You have to get a Kindle Paper White.
I go in the back yard or anywhere else I want and read.
I resisted for years but I'm very glad I gave into tech when it comes to books.
Just think about it...you're laying in bed and you finish a book you know has a sequel,turn off airplane mode,order your book and you're reading the sequel in thirty seconds. And if you're a Prime member you get a shitload of free books,of course that costs around 80 bucks a year but I read far more than that.
I'll never give up my Paper White.
Wait...you live on a boat?
Aww hell I'm jealous!!! The wife and I are considering doing the same.
Maybe hopping around the Caribbean until we get tired of it.
Thought about a circumnavigation in our younger days but I dont see it as we get older.
It sounds like a very cool gadget. For now, I'm still in resistance!I stay in bed. There's a reading light set up above the bed and the headboard is a bookcase! Happily, my reading does not disturb my husband.Do you just stay in your room or do you get out of bed once you wake up?I've had bouts of insomnia for most of my adult life. I spend the sleepless parts of the night reading. Insomnia has allowed me to read more books than I would have otherwise.
You have to get a Kindle Paper White.
I go in the back yard or anywhere else I want and read.
I resisted for years but I'm very glad I gave into tech when it comes to books.
Just think about it...you're laying in bed and you finish a book you know has a sequel,turn off airplane mode,order your book and you're reading the sequel in thirty seconds. And if you're a Prime member you get a shitload of free books,of course that costs around 80 bucks a year but I read far more than that.
I'll never give up my Paper White.
Owls aren't dangerous....or are they? I love Owls, they're beautiful creatures.
The bad part is when you're on vacation somewhere and you want your 5 a.m. coffee and newspaper and the hotel and the world is still asleep.I here ya Lucy.
Part of my problem is waking up at 5:00am everyday for 25 years.
But I didnt mind because I was home by 3:00 everyday.
After 4 years of retirement I still cant kick the early wake up call,but to tell you the truth I love the early mornings.
It's my favorite time of day.
The bad part is when you're on vacation somewhere and you want your 5 a.m. coffee and newspaper and the hotel and the world is still asleep.I here ya Lucy.
Part of my problem is waking up at 5:00am everyday for 25 years.
But I didnt mind because I was home by 3:00 everyday.
After 4 years of retirement I still cant kick the early wake up call,but to tell you the truth I love the early mornings.
It's my favorite time of day.
Except the screech owl that visited the blue spruce outside my bedroom window one night and started up such a fierce screaming that I was sure (1) the cat had somehow gotten outside and was being murdered, then (2) (once I'd gotten my heart down out of my throat) another very large creature was outside being murdered. It was the most chilling noise in the middle of the night I've ever heard. They're little tiny things. Unbelievable.Owls aren't dangerous....or are they? I love Owls, they're beautiful creatures.
Dangerous? Depends, are you a woodland creature?
I now ask before booking a room.The bad part is when you're on vacation somewhere and you want your 5 a.m. coffee and newspaper and the hotel and the world is still asleep.I here ya Lucy.
Part of my problem is waking up at 5:00am everyday for 25 years.
But I didnt mind because I was home by 3:00 everyday.
After 4 years of retirement I still cant kick the early wake up call,but to tell you the truth I love the early mornings.
It's my favorite time of day.
Dont think I've ever stayed in a hotel that didnt have a coffee maker in the room and now days you have WI-FI so you can still read the paper.
I like the way they look too. I don't think I've ever seen one really. I've heard them.That's cool that you get some chores done. I keep thinking one of these nights I'll go outside and bird watch. It would be fun to see an owl.I just get up and get on here or clean or cook.I stay in bed. There's a reading light set up above the bed and the headboard is a bookcase! Happily, my reading does not disturb my husband.Do you just stay in your room or do you get out of bed once you wake up?I've had bouts of insomnia for most of my adult life. I spend the sleepless parts of the night reading. Insomnia has allowed me to read more books than I would have otherwise.
I've always loved Owls, gorgeous creatures:
A Parliament of Owls: