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It keeps me alive and allows me to think and all that, but it doesn't do a very good job of sleeping.
I've woken up like three times in the past hour, from nightmares or sleep paralysis and hallucinations. I thought it was maybe around 6:00AM, but when I looked at the clock it was 4:00, meaning I had been asleep for about 1 hour.
Incredible dismayed and incoherent I decided to do what I always do no matter the circumstances; come to TL.
Does anyone else have any problems with this? The internet information on sleep paralysis and hypnogogia is sparse, and even the research information I can find from my school is virtually non-existent. The book titled "Hypnogogia" is out of print and sells for several hundred dollars, and none of the doctors I've talked to really know much about it, other than the name.
I've found a couple of studies and the Wikipedia article, and that's about it. I've also been prescribed a couple of drugs that don't seem to do anything.
Gay
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run, exercise, work out, play sports
:3
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A bottle of vodka will put you to sleep in that case.
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On July 28 2008 18:05 paper wrote:
run, exercise, work out, play sports
:3
I said my brain. My body is just fine. You may remember me as the guy who can bench press 225 pounds.
Edit: Oh I guess you may be referring to what I wrote in the weight loss thread. But yeah again, I do that stuff. I also go to school, which I guess is the analogue for your brain.
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Any high force blunt impact to the back of the head works for me.
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I was pretty sure I'd get pointless responses like these. It's sad when "drink a bottle of Vodka" is the best advice available.
Just shows you that I meant what I wrote as far as lack of options and treatment.
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On July 28 2008 18:16 Ancestral wrote:I said my brain. My body is just fine. You may remember me as the guy who can bench press 225 pounds. Edit: Oh I guess you may be referring to what I wrote in the weight loss thread. But yeah again, I do that stuff. I also go to school, which I guess is the analogue for your brain.
er, well, i was saying if you completely drain all your energy, you'll just completely knock out and not have these mental effects? =T
i don't know :d
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Well you are pretty right there, I do sleep well after I run long races and things. However, it would suck to have to do that every day of my life just to sleep. And also, if there's some time that I do want to stay up, I can't because I'm so tired.
I guess the point is everyone has sleep problems of some sort in industrialized countries, so I guess I should just put my hope in winning the lottery so I can pay expensive medical fees for examinations or just not worry about anything because I'm rich. That's always the answer, though.
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i wake up from 12am to 2am then 4am and etc.... sometimes every 10minutes.
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I have the same problem. When it's REALLY bad it looks like this
11:00pm - get into bed
11:00 - 11:45pm - turn over to face the other direction in the hopes I will sleep faster on a certain side
12:30am - turn my pillow over because it's getting too hot on the side
1:00am - BLESSED RELEASE!
2:00am - wake up.
2:30am - experience my overactive imagination leaping from thought to thought. Stay awake for the next 3 hours, do not pass go.
5:45am - sleep.
8:30am - wake up feeling like COMPLETE SHIT!
8:32am - get out of bed after realising I'm not going to get any more sleep today.
1:30pm - become extremely tired.
Edit: This really fucked me off in university.
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Yeah I have a problem that is similar in scope, just the times are different.
And it's like, the hours of sleep I'll get per day on a given week is something along the lines of
14, 14, 0, 21, 0, 7, 16
I think I sleep way to much over all, but when I try to sleep at night I have ridiculous hallucinations, dreams, and sleep paralysis. Despite the fact that I have a beard currently and am pretty manly, they're actually pretty horrifying. And they're not even about anything scary, it's always random stuff like children, logs, small dogs, or swirling lights and sounds.
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I have the same problem. And my sleep pattern is very similiar.. possibly related? Sometimes I find myself sleeping for 16+ hours if I let myself stay in bed, you know how you get that "I can probably eke another few hours of sleep out of this tiredness" feeling. Waking up at 8pm feels terrible. I'm told it's mostly because my sleeping pattern is erratic, but it's not like there's much I can do about it except taking sleeping pills, and I'm not sure those even work. The last time I tried them was about 5-6 years ago.
As for my dreams, they've gotten so weird I started keeping a log of them. Most of them make 0 sense.
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Go uberman, rumor has it it can cure these types of problems.
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Switzerland11984 Posts
I searched all my trackers for hypnogogia, but couldn't find anything, sorry. Then again, when I have a physical problem, I usually go to a doctor and not to the internet, you might want to try that. :p
I'm so used to being physically exhausted when I come home in the evening that I often have problems falling asleep if I haven't been to training that day. I know it sucks to be dependant on excercise to fall asleep, but it's better than never sleeping well.
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Germany2896 Posts
Brains are overrated. Except as zombie-food. 
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On July 28 2008 18:27 Ancestral wrote:
Well you are pretty right there, I do sleep well after I run long races and things. However, it would suck to have to do that every day of my life just to sleep. And also, if there's some time that I do want to stay up, I can't because I'm so tired.
Well, this is why you won't find a better solution. You already denied the best solution possible. Sports.
Eating habits have a strong influence as well. Don't eat 5-6 hours before sleep. Don't eat much for dinner. Eat very good and a lot for breakfast.
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i get hungry so i eat, i guess thats why i never sleep.
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When you try to go to sleep just focus on trying to clear your mind of all thoughts. Works for me. There's a certain mental state I have to be in to sleep or else I'll just lie there all night.
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EPT
