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seems like everyone here is a bit like me, not going to bed until REAL LATE!!! despite having to get up so early. it takes me usually a good half hour to an hour to get to sleep whilst most people i know it takes something like 10 minutes.

anyway its good in a way being so awake and active until well into the night (good for social life). my mum goes to bed at 8:30!!! my dad is more like 10:00 though he always gets up around 3 and watches the movie channel till the sun rises.

PS: spidey.. i've often wondered about you. i reckon a shrink would have a field day with all your wierd dreams.
 
Originally posted by TheMase
You could see it that way.
Or you could say that if you sleep too much now, you're wasting the best time in your life on sleep ;)
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i agree, but when those extra hours are spent watching movies and on the computer....


went sleepless the night the swans played essendon. went out afterwards and had to start work in the morning. got home and went straight to work. needless to say i was stuffed for the next 2-3 days
 
How much caffeine are you drinking? I used to drink five or six cups of coffee a day as well as two or three cans of diet coke and had trouble sleeping. Now I'm on three cups of coffee a day and occassionally one can of diet coke I'm sleeping much better. Caffeine in any form, including chocolate, after about 6pm can keep me awake at night.
 

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Originally posted by DonFan
How much caffeine are you drinking? I used to drink five or six cups of coffee a day as well as two or three cans of diet coke and had trouble sleeping. Now I'm on three cups of coffee a day and occassionally one can of diet coke I'm sleeping much better. Caffeine in any form, including chocolate, after about 6pm can keep me awake at night.
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i dont drink any coffee. sometimes the odd cup of tea, but rarely. anyway, i'm going to bed at 9pm tonight, so hopefully asleep by 9:30. see if that makes a difference.
 
Originally posted by nicko18
seems like everyone here is a bit like me, not going to bed until REAL LATE!!! despite having to get up so early. it takes me usually a good half hour to an hour to get to sleep whilst most people i know it takes something like 10 minutes.

anyway its good in a way being so awake and active until well into the night (good for social life). .
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This is like me. I seem to get by on four or five hours. Unless I have been doing really physical stuff it doesn't make much difference. I sleep when I get REALLY tired.

I don't drink too much caffeine but I get anxious a fair bit. I do know that if my eating habits were better I'd get to bed at a normal time. But what's 'normal' anymore? :D
 
I usually go to bed 10:30 - 11:30, fall asleep about 12, and wake up automatically 7:00 - 7:30. I would like to get more sleep, but my eating habits are terrible, skipping brekky, sometimes lunch, eating at all different hours. I have had to cut out caffeine because if I have it at ANY TIME during the day I won't sleep properly.
 
During high school i generally went to bed around 11ish and got up about 6 30-6 45. I was fine with that.

When i did my tertiary education it was at a adult learning centre which had hours of 1-6 everyday. I got into a sleeping pattern of something like 2:00am-10:am. Not a good idea probably but i still functioned normally.

Now im working and i go to bed at 12ish and get up at 6:45. Im normal, work fine, not really sleepy until after dinner.
 
at the moment i cannot sleep 8 hours straight, i wake up after 4 hours and cannot go back to sleep, i have to get up.
Then I would get sleepy again after 5-6 hours, sleep for another 4 hours and wake up again.
Basically I need 2 sections of sleep each day, it's killing me.
 
I usually get about 6 - 7 hours per night. But I find that when my wife is away, and theres noone in the house, I can't go to sleep.

Makes for a sleepy day the next day.
 
Last year i was going to bed abt 1am and waking up abt 5:30 for uni. I'd sleep a bit on the train and the bus and be ok until halfway thru the day, so then i'd catch half an hour in the library or in a lecture and be fine til bedtime.

I decided that probably wasn't the most efficient use of time so decided this year to go to bed abt 10:30 and wake up abt 5:30 as usual. only for the entire semester i made it through only 9 lectures in the whole semester without falling asleep, and even fell asleep in pracs so i really don't know what's doing with me! Even on weekends, i'll sleep 12-10 or something and STILL need an hour long nap abt 3pm. These days i think my cats sleep less than me!

So what's up with me?!

And re: the exercise before bed thing - it's all abt the nervous systems - exercise and sex activate the "awake" systems which increase your heart rate, blood pressure, nervous activity, hormone release etc and keep you well and truly wired. The reason you feel tired after exercise is the depletion of your energy stores, which is usually fixed by a good meal. If you don't eat well after exercise it actually causes a "hangover" sort of effect for your body (but not in terms of the really hangover that comes with complete set of seediness) and leaves you depleted come the morning, which is another reason y exercise before bed isn't so good.
 
An additional question -

Does anyone else seem to be able to tell themselves that they have to wake up at a certain time ... and they do? eg. I go to sleep at say 1am and I have to wake up at 7am. I wake up at 6:55am. no joke!!

Granted this doesn't always work with excessive inebriation but in general it does work everytime.

I may wake up half an hour earlier or whatever but any explanations?
 
I'm the same, no matter what time I go to bed, I always wake up about 7am, but only on weekdays, the weekends I would sleep later, but seems my damn dog has worked out that I have to be up at 7am & because he doesn't understand weekends, he scratches on my door, until I wake up & yell at him, that I don't have to go to work today & p**s off, or no schmackos. :mad:
 

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Originally posted by mantis
I'm the same, no matter what time I go to bed, I always wake up about 7am, but only on weekdays, the weekends I would sleep later, but seems my damn dog has worked out that I have to be up at 7am & because he doesn't understand weekends, he scratches on my door, until I wake up & yell at him, that I don't have to go to work today & p**s off, or no schmackos. :mad:
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Tell me about it, Sandie... our cat Misty, she's the same way.

Won't sleep at the end of the bed like a normal kitty, always has to wedge herself between Jen and I, and winds up taking a good portion of the doona and the blankies with her.

I don't blame her for getting cold-- but whose section of the doona and blankies does she swipe? MINE, naturally. :mad:

No wonder I'm usually up first, by 7:30 a.m., and henceforth the one responsible for giving the poor baby puss-puss her brekky and turning on the heater. And this is without the benefit nor the need for an alarm clock, mind you.

In any event, I usually survive well on six hours sleep, minimum, and Jen says that I fall sound asleep within two minutes of my head hitting the pillow.
 
Originally posted by Katthawk
An additional question -

Does anyone else seem to be able to tell themselves that they have to wake up at a certain time ... and they do? eg. I go to sleep at say 1am and I have to wake up at 7am. I wake up at 6:55am. no joke!!
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Same. I can pretty much pick a time, as long as it's before 9am and i'll wake up at that time, often on the dot. That being said, i find it near impossible to sleep past 9am, even after a good night out.
 
Originally posted by Katthawk
An additional question -

Does anyone else seem to be able to tell themselves that they have to wake up at a certain time ... and they do? eg. I go to sleep at say 1am and I have to wake up at 7am. I wake up at 6:55am. no joke!!

Granted this doesn't always work with excessive inebriation but in general it does work everytime.

I may wake up half an hour earlier or whatever but any explanations?
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Yes, but only when I really really have to get up, like for a job interview or something similar. I'm sure its some internal body clock at work.
 
Originally posted by swansrock4eva
And re: the exercise before bed thing - it's all abt the nervous systems - exercise and sex activate the "awake" systems which increase your heart rate, blood pressure, nervous activity, hormone release etc and keep you well and truly wired. The reason you feel tired after exercise is the depletion of your energy stores, which is usually fixed by a good meal. If you don't eat well after exercise it actually causes a "hangover" sort of effect for your body (but not in terms of the really hangover that comes with complete set of seediness) and leaves you depleted come the morning, which is another reason y exercise before bed isn't so good.
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True, but sex should only be a problem in keeping you awake if orgasm is not reached - because the nervous system has not had a chance to calm itself down and must do so slowly. However, if it is reached, the nervous system responsible for calming the body (parasympathetic) starts calming the body down immediately.

So the best advice I can give you? Have an orgasm before you sleep. ;)
 

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Originally posted by BomberGal

So the best advice I can give you? Have an orgasm before you sleep. ;)
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:eek: :cool: either youve been hitting the textbooks quite hard, or someone's been hitting on you harder .:)
 

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