Sleepless In . . .
ArtAngel
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Sleepless in . . . California.
Tonight the smoke from the fires in California have finally cleared the backyard but our house still smells like smoke and we are nowhere near evac zones.
What keeps you awake at night?
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Bad things happening to people. Bad guys being portrayed as good guys. Powerful sex drive. Coffee addiction.
My youngest, who has Free Running Circadian Rhythm Disorder. And at the moment, is also having dysregulation issues and can't get to sleep even though he was clearly tired hours ago. (But at least it's happy dysregulation this time, so it's an epic case of zoomies instead of screaming like he's being murdered, so I'll take it.)
Also, to-do lists and my brain scripting arguments I'll likely never have in real life.
....and that one stinking mosquito that got in and is buzzing around, but that I can't seem to catch.
(Sleepless in... Minnesota.)
I am a Canadian but saw the fires no you tube...looked pretty bad. I hope you guys get the support and help you need.
My brain not shutting up. Also, currently, the heat.
My sleep cycle has been abysmal lately. Unable to get to sleep till well into the morning (10.30am yesterday, 10am today) and waking at night. Today I forced myself out of bed at 4pm and have hopes of getting to sleep at some time reasonable tomorrow morning. I hate my brain.
Life in general.
The joint pain and the muscle cramps caused by my autoimmune thyroid disorder. I often honestly don't know how to lie. It's Graves disease, so a hyperfunction, but at the moment I'm in underfunction due to overmedication. And the joint pain is the same, whether hyper or hypo. And I also get it from the medication itself. Yay me! What a fun life. But I refuse to give in.
Thanks for starting this thread. And hugzzz out to all you fellow insomniacs.
Heatwave. Fortunately I'm a very talented sleeper. If only my employer would appreciate my talents.
Wow. I identify with so many of the comments here.
Gordig, Write Idea, and tsroemi, I'm with you all 100%.
For me, the last two nights, it's been my cat waking me up in the middle of the night. I just got back from vacation and she's been extra needy. Hard to sleep with a fluffball in the face.
With you on this. Running battle since late 80s. Last night was a 'surf' night of sleep. Big cat Charlie was active, small cat Simon was not. Dreams active and weird enough to semi-wake me. Jolted awake at 3am. I am often wakened at 20:30 until 24:00, sleep kinda till alarm goes off at 03:30. If I am lucky I get 5 - 7 hours of sleep. And then there is the crazy guy above me that comes home around 1 - 2am to yell, throw furniture around, and stomp all over the floor. No idea what his issues are.
For the past month it's been two cats. Kitten had cystitis, then when into heat. Then had a hard recovery from spay. Two weeks later older cat had dental. He was signed off yesterday. I paid off their bill today.
Now it's my 3 game projects.
For me, it's sleep apnea. I have a bi-pap machine, but it seems to have gotten weaker over time. I keep waking up, and I know I'm not getting deep, sound sleep. I hope the doctor can get things back on track at my appointment next week. It may be time for a new sleep study.
Thanks for the advice. The filter is good. I think the pump or something else is wrong with it. It's strange because my sleep scores in the app are mostly perfect. Hopefully a new sleep study can get a better calibration for the proper settings I need.
The things that keep me up at night currently are the riots around the country, health and retirement which is coming up fast, but my full pension is still aways off. A good friend I hang out with, same age as me just had a heart attack (she is fine), but it got me thinking about it more. Oh, and terror attacks, some crazy people out there.
I haven't slept well in months and it is amazing how many of these comments hit home.
The reason I started this conversation was after not sleeping because of smoke which is now cleared up (it's always something) I stumbled upon a story from the feds about a social worker therapist for children who while using male alias uploaded videos of infants raped and claimed "he did it" and encouraged others to try similar abuse. She pled guilty and claimed she favored violent acts against infants aged 0-3. I knew I would be awake all night and thought I bet I'm not the only one who never sleeps much.
I tried picturing lying on the beach in Hawaii but the ideas plans and things to do still steal the stage.
Cats I have rescued 14. Built two Catios indoors . . . and am turning my dining room into a huge Catio . . . I think I've lost my mind. Then there are the dogs . . . who bark at nothing I can see . . . they are either senile or have a sixth sense. And the realization that life has not allowed me to achieve half of what I had hoped, haunts me. Too many ideas too little time.
Life is the culprit. It does interfere with sleep. I suspect I won't sleep well until I die.
Politics.
During the day I can distract myself, but when I wake up to pee in the middle of the night and I'm not as tired as I was when going to sleep, the thoughts creep in.
my left knee won't stop hurting, the right one too but it hurts less than the left one
Evil truly knows no bounds. I still wake from nightmares that I wasn't able to keep my ex- from doing similar things to my kids (although I don't think he would've been careless enough to make videos.) It's been almost seven years since I got us to safety, so I'm guessing they'll probably never stop. Those are definitely nights I don't risk giving sleep another try.
Alright, now I can add cats to the joint pain, too! Yay, member of two clubs MUST be way better than one, even if it's the insomniacs sub-sections ...
Our old tom is sleeping mostly outside atm cause the weather is so mild - basically right under my bedroom window. Usually, I keep it closed, but it was soooo hot yesterday, and I just couldn't. And naturally, at 4 in the morning, he starts to feel a little hungry and lets the world know with his really quite terrible *I'm an oooold half-deaf cat that can't hear itself very well anymore* wail. Aaaand since we can't leave food outside anymore because of a rat attack in summer, guess who was sitting half an hour in the mud room, listening to his content slurping ... On the other hand, got myself a little something to slurp as well, so there was that. 
All of you posters with the pains and heartaches and worries in this thread, especially you fellow thyroid sufferers, I feel you so much, and you're the best and bravest for not giving in! My therapist says that even a little lie-down time helps the body recover from the day if no sleep comes at all, and I guess she's right. So we'll make it to yet another morning, and then new night, new game ...
@memcneil, oh no, since the 80s?? I've just been diagnosed this year. This does not sound good at all ...
By the way, does everyone here already know about the two sleeps variant? It's the way people used to sleep it appears, before modern times. Might be an option for those of you you wake up and can't get back, because it seems everyone fared quite well with it. Here's an article, original discovery story of the custom is from BBC: https://sleepreviewmag.com/sleep-health/medieval-habit-two-sleeps/
This morning, it was well before I would normally have to wake up when a 'meow' 'mew' near my ear came, came again and again. Simon woke up and couldn't find Charlie his older brother who raised him. So he woke me up. Today is my flatmate's day off (his Saturday) and no alarms. But I have cat alarms. Simon and Charlie are now sitting on my bed as I struggle to type on the old laptop in my bedroom that has a 'T' key that sticks. Listening to news and going to fire up D|S.
I have no problem falling asleep in the evening. But I do wake up in the middle of the night (usually around 3 am), and then can't go back to sleep. Reason? Just like Gordig's, "Brain just won't shut up."
I'm going on 25 years with my thyroid diagnosis (autoimmune hypo, a.k.a Hashimoto's). It's manageable, but I'm just used to feeling tired all the time now. The best thing you can do is try to advocate for yourself with the health care providers (as much as you can). Only you know how it feels living inside your body. Try to find someone who will treat you by how you feel, and not by your labwork numbers. They're hard to find. Trust me, I know.
Oh, and Oso? Yep. The current state of the world and the US gives me nightmares all the time now. I don't remember a time in my life when I've had so many weird, scary dreams so often. My overactive imagination likes to twist my daily worries into truly frightening stuff at night.
To be honest, I enjoy the 8-9h sleep a night too much, but my middle of the night wake ups aren't a common thing enough to disturb me. Many times, when I can't get back to sleep in an hour or so, I just get up and do work, and then, if needed, have a nap later, but I wouldn't consider switching to it "full time". :)
Fortunately for me, that is one thing that does not keep me awake at night anymore like it used to
The first and second sleep is very interesting. Last night was a like that. I hate it when leaks happen especially when dripping from the roof where pool solar water panels with water bladders live. It reminds me of when the car wouldn't start . . . knowing I now fully relied on some stranger to fix broken things not knowing if the fix was affordable. Sometimes at the designated sleep hour I find myself too awake to go to bed, I sort DAZ stuff thinking this is boring enough to not keep me awake, and maybe . . . after the clock turns 11 my time, midnight Daz time, I'll check out new stuff and head upstairs for some shut eye. BUT, sometimes that fails and I work on whatever (on the computer not house work) into the wee hours of the morning, and before I know it it's 3.30am or 4am, and if I'm still wide eyed, I keep working until the coffee machine starts at 6 am. All-nighters happen when I am close to finishing a project be it a novel, building something or creating digital art, or stressed out of my mine,& and I look at the clock and see it is 4.30 am. I think why go sleep for only one hour? What good would that do? Those are how the all-nighters happen.
But most times it does feel like a first and second sleep except mine varies from 12 -4am or 2-4am and sometimes I cannot resist the urge to go do something more productive than look at the clock and at other times I think maybe if I stay here and break the pattern I will eventually sleep solid. The latter never works.
leaks in the ceiling concerning, my brother and SIL were without power (but had lights) for 3 days due to a leaking tile shorting a wire
(took a while to find the cause)
makes me think how lucky I was in my previous house when the plumber accidently emptied my entire hot water tank in the ceiling (the overflow pipe broke) and water cascaded down the walls of every room, I was below and just stood in shock!