My Sleeping Patterns are all screwed up ...

[Numquam Moribimur]

last night i only got 2 hours of sleep, how do i fix it .....its starting to piss me off :(

[Teso Dos Bichos]

I won't be much help, as that was more than I got.


Welcome to the club. :D

[MtP07]

Do you workout or get any exercise? I've always read that exercising regularly helps you get to sleep at night.

[Numquam Moribimur]

when i used to play american football i was lifting/working out 5-6 days a week :cool:

[MtP07]

But what about now? Also, how many soft drinks do you have per day? Too much caffeine can f you up.

[Numquam Moribimur]

i dont work out that much now ...i think my biggest problem is that i take alot of naps

[Teso Dos Bichos]

Why do you do that?

[Numquam Moribimur]

Bc i am not sleeping at all during the night and when i come home from class .....i take a nap

[MtP07]

i take alot of naps

Bingo. There's your problem.

[Numquam Moribimur]

right ill try and not take one tomorrow see what happens

[Teso Dos Bichos]

Bc i am not sleeping at all during the night and when i come home from class .....i take a nap

I'm not sleeping at all, so I'm heading to my doctor for some meds. :D

[Howard Zinn]

right ill try and not take one tomorrow see what happens


I don't think it particularly matters when you get sleep, as long as you are getting a certain amount in each 24 hour time period.

[SirManchester]

What I usually do is after I get home from class I drink an energy drink to prevent me from directly taking a nap. Then I do my fair share of reading and a little workout maybe which should get me tired enough to get a good night's sleep.

[MtP07]

I don't think it particularly matters when you get sleep, as long as you are getting a certain amount in each 24 hour time period.

I'm pretty sure I've read that this is wrong, your body needs a certain amount of deep sleep which you don't get from naps. Of course, I'm not a doctor so I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I've read it before. :)

[Howard Zinn]

I'm pretty sure I've read that this is wrong, your body needs a certain amount of deep sleep which you don't get from naps. Of course, I'm not a doctor so I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I've read it before. :)


Pfffft, you and your books bringing facts in here. I'm going by instinct!!! :D ;)

[SirManchester]

I don't think it particularly matters when you get sleep, as long as you are getting a certain amount in each 24 hour time period.


actually it does, it creates a nice sleeping pattern to which your body and mind can adjust to better. If you keep sleeping different times every day and take naps, it throws your sleeping pattern off balance with negative results naturally.

[billyireland]

Had a good length post written up, and my connection failed. :mad:

Basically, I don't sleep once every 2 or 3 nights... not even for a minute. This is bascause I am a diagnosed insomniac (something about having too much energy) and am also perhaps the WORST morning person in the world (I usually leave a can of Red Bull by my bed to knock back when I wake up, or I'll just fall back to sleep 3 or 4 times and not get up until 1 or 2pm). Sometimes I have to take 2x the recommended dose of sleeping pills (prescription, none of that ultra-light NiQuil stuff). All I can sayt is that God for weed, otherwise I might have to resort to a quick hit of whiskey or something to get me sleepy some nights (in which case you don't get real sleep, since you never enter REM-sleep). So next time you want to bitch about sleeping problems, remember me. :p

It was hilarious (only retrospectively, of course) when I couldn't get to sleep after sex once, though... in her house, no less!

[MtP07]

Pfffft, you and your books bringing facts in here. I'm going by instinct!!! :D ;)

What can I say? I'm edumakated! :p

[littleman]

I'm pretty sure I've read that this is wrong, your body needs a certain amount of deep sleep which you don't get from naps. Of course, I'm not a doctor so I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I've read it before. :)

You're right.. deep sleep and REM sleep is needed for the body to repair itself. Simply taking x hours of sleep a day in y no. of intervals won't work.. you need a sustained period of sleep.

[billyireland]

I'm pretty sure I've read that this is wrong, your body needs a certain amount of deep sleep which you don't get from naps. Of course, I'm not a doctor so I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure I've read it before. :)
Yeah, that's true. It takes an hour or so to enter R(apid) E(ye) M(ovement/otion) sleep, and I'm quite sure you come out of it very gradually; about 30-40 minutes before waking up. This is the reason why you are more likely to just fall right back asleep after being woken by a cat/dog/etc in the middle of the night than if it were to happen 20 minutes before your alarm went off.