How Do You sleep - Page 36

**billybunter** · October 29th, 2013, 12:11 PM

I was awakened at 4am this morn by me! My snoring woke me. Sounded like a pig

you can't win.

MaxJoker · October 29th, 2013, 05:38 PM

On a bed of nails.

I find it helps prepare me for the coming day.

**billybunter** · October 29th, 2013, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaxJoker

On a bed of nails.

I find it helps prepare me for the coming day.

Next time you crash here take that hat off and stub that fag

and don't hog the duvet.

**tamsmith** · December 8th, 2013, 09:50 PM

Been advised to take some herbal stuff from HollandandWimpey. Been told by the third night it should start to work.

Well I am on the seventh night tonight but for the past six it has been as useful as twenty alarm clocks set for every five minutes.

Tried and trusted method tonight. Where's that can??

**tamsmith** · December 8th, 2013, 09:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MaxJoker

On a bed of nails.

I find it helps prepare me for the coming day.

I actually tried that once. Not to help me sleep. More of a dare. Only had a few slight punctures but i certainly would not like to be coming on one.

Instead of punctures I maybe should have said pricks??

**billybunter** · December 9th, 2013, 08:07 AM

My new sleep pattern is go to bed around 11.00 sleep to 4.30 get up and go for a pee

back to bed sleep to 8.30.
I hate getting up for a pee, even though I don't drink before bed.

**GailFan** · March 31st, 2014, 06:09 AM

Yeah, I've been having peaks and troughs lately as well. I won't be able to sleep one night, and then next be so tired I sleep right through. I'm sure it's stress.

**billybunter** · March 31st, 2014, 06:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GailFan

Yeah, I've been having peaks and troughs lately as well. I won't be able to sleep one night, and then next be so tired I sleep right through. I'm sure it's stress.

Stress is a common cause. I suffer with depression and that doesn't help either.

**Pinkpapercut** · April 6th, 2014, 06:33 PM

I've had chronic sleep problems since the mid-90s when one neighbour installed an over-sensitive security light that would come on repeatedly in the night startling me awake, and a new neighbour moved in who was prodigiously noisy even in the small hours. Add to that my caring for my dad in his last year as he slowly died of liver cancer and needed care and attention at all hours, and I became sensitised to the slightest disturbance.

From around 2005 I woke up after four hours sleep no matter what and couldn't get back to sleep again, which left me feeling tired throughout the day, sometimes dangerously so, so I became afraid to drive. Since the beginning of Summer 2013, by a mixture of "mindfulness of breathing" meditation, keeping the bedroom as cool as possible, and not going to bed until I'm on the very cusp of falling asleep, I've largely managed to get a good six to eight hours sleep, although I still often wake up four hours after first hitting the pillow, and sometimes remain awake for an hour or so before falling back to sleep again. The breathing meditation usually does the job.

**billybunter** · April 6th, 2014, 06:43 PM

It is true that going to bed when the eyes start to droop works. But if you have work in the morn you want 8 hours sleep. It's a pain.

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billybunter R.I.P. Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Gone But Not Forgotten Posts: 14,404 Thanks: 51,687 Thanked 252,372 Times in 14,171 Posts	My new sleep pattern is go to bed around 11.00 sleep to 4.30 get up and go for a pee back to bed sleep to 8.30. I hate getting up for a pee, even though I don't drink before bed. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

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Pinkpapercut Rust Never Sleeps Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: North of the Channel, west of the hills, south of the mountains Posts: 984 Thanks: 31,846 Thanked 20,519 Times in 986 Posts	I've had chronic sleep problems since the mid-90s when one neighbour installed an over-sensitive security light that would come on repeatedly in the night startling me awake, and a new neighbour moved in who was prodigiously noisy even in the small hours. Add to that my caring for my dad in his last year as he slowly died of liver cancer and needed care and attention at all hours, and I became sensitised to the slightest disturbance. From around 2005 I woke up after four hours sleep no matter what and couldn't get back to sleep again, which left me feeling tired throughout the day, sometimes dangerously so, so I became afraid to drive. Since the beginning of Summer 2013, by a mixture of "mindfulness of breathing" meditation, keeping the bedroom as cool as possible, and not going to bed until I'm on the very cusp of falling asleep, I've largely managed to get a good six to eight hours sleep, although I still often wake up four hours after first hitting the pillow, and sometimes remain awake for an hour or so before falling back to sleep again. The breathing meditation usually does the job. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. That's To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 's bottom and I'd love it for a pillow

December 8th, 2013, 09:50 PM	#354
tamsmith Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Coming close to the Slippery Slope. Posts: 7,800 Thanks: 77,915 Thanked 280,415 Times in 9,078 Posts	Been advised to take some herbal stuff from HollandandWimpey. Been told by the third night it should start to work. Well I am on the seventh night tonight but for the past six it has been as useful as twenty alarm clocks set for every five minutes. Tried and trusted method tonight. Where's that can??

April 6th, 2014, 06:43 PM	#360
billybunter R.I.P. Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Gone But Not Forgotten Posts: 14,404 Thanks: 51,687 Thanked 252,372 Times in 14,171 Posts	It is true that going to bed when the eyes start to droop works. But if you have work in the morn you want 8 hours sleep. It's a pain. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.