have you ever lay there, 11 'o' clock at night, thinking you had loads of time till you had to get up, only to find that you couldnt sleep. And you sat there, watching the time pass, 12pm, 1am, 2am(oh god i got to get up in 3 hours), 3am, 4am(nooooo!!)
yeah, i did that last night, and so am really peeved.
anyone else done that, i dont know about you, but it helps me when i have semi-proof there are others who have gone through the same thing.

I´m just rising from such a night... and now a long day´s work is waiting for me!

The trick is to try and write during that time while you're watching the clock tick off. I guarantee you'll find yourself nodding right off.

TEEEEEEJ

I hate nights like that. More often, though, I sleep fitfully. I wake up, can't fall asleep again, does it anyway, wakes up, falls asleep, wakes up, and finds that I have to get up in an hour, so if I fall asleep again I may be sleeping very deeply when my alarm goes off, and that will scare me so badly that I will start my day with a mini-heart attack... so do I try to fall asleep again, or do I give up and get up?

Ann

Have you guys ever noticed what time I post? Put that in eastern standard time and you'll see how well I sleep.

And if I start writing and even reading, it wakes me up. Go figure.

Anyway... So here I am at 1:40 am. I've been here at every hour of the night and wee morning...

I stay up till about 3 am to finish off a group assignment. Truthfully I'd finished my part hours ago, but I was conferring on MSN with my friends who were in my group.

I had to get up at 6 to get to uni by 8am in the end I didn't even go to class I was too tired to think about chemistry at 8am so I picked up the notes for myself and mu friends and walked out.

Well, here I am still awake after 4 am.

And, wow, you can just go to class and pick up notes? That never did happen when I was still in college - we had to write 'em down ourselves.

In a way yes, the lecturer uses powerpoint presentations to deliver the class so for an explanation you had to be at class, but the main points were all in the notes. I could have easily grabbed the notes off the internet, but he never put them up that early so I had to be at class.

My college age son does that in his classes that have over 1200 people in them. The attendence is taken on test dates by the tests turned in.


I think he went to class less than 4 times, but made an A, so who am I to fuss.

I am just sorry they didn't have that when I was in college.

i go through that a lot!

Tell me about it. Story of my life. Being retired, I'm fortunate in one sense in that I don't have to get up early for work after those nights. But they usually mean I end up napping most of the day or early evening away on the sofa, which I just hate to bits because it's such a complete waste of a day.

And, then, of course, having slept most of the day, I'm wide awake again come midnight.

I go through cycles like this when I reverse day/night for a while and then it eventually comes good again. Not helped by the fact that Stuart works a nightshift two nights a week and on those I usually end up watching DVDs or reading till 5 or 6 a.m. Very bad habit, I should probably try to change.

LabRat

I've lost track of how many sleeping disorders I have.

But I had a cool book recommended to me by one of my early sleep docs (still one of the best I've had), and again by the good people at the Mayo Clinic.

It's called No More Sleepless Nights , and if you're having trouble sleeping, it's a really good place to start.