Do you sleep through the night?

[seemunkee]

I wish I could sleep all night without waking up. This week 3:20-3:30 has been the magical time where I wake up thinking about something of no importance. I also wish I could nap but I never seem to be able to actually fall asleep unless it is night time. If I could I'd head over to the server room right now for a short break.

[lizziegrace]

1. Nope

It's been at least 10 years since I've slept through the night. Even Ambien and other drugs don't help.

:(

[miss_american_pie]

2. Sleep deprivation sucks

:hug:

I have small kids, so it's been years.

[Midlodemocrat]

5. Mine are older than yours, but I still don't sleep through the night.

Last night, my husband was tossing and turning so much, I went up to my office to sleep. At 1:30AM, the lights on the second floor went on, I woke up thinking someone was sick. Nope. Just the teenager walking in her sleep and telling me she needed to find her backpack.

She's 16. I don't think I'll ever sleep through the night again. :cry:

[miss_american_pie]

6. Ack!

That is not encouraging. :hug:

[seemunkee]

13. One of mine is away at college

The other is almost there and I can't remember sleeping through the night since before they came along.

[miss_american_pie]

14. *note to self*

Invest in coffee plantation. ;)

[azmouse]

3. Occasionally

Most nights I'll wake up for at least a few minutes.
Fortunately, it's not disruptive enough to prevent my getting enough sleep.

[BarenakedLady]

4. Never.

:boring:

[plcdude]

7. the older you get

the worse it gets.

[Drum]

8. 99.9% of the time, yes.

It has always been so...I know, I'm lucky that way. :shrug:

[warrens]

9. Rarely

I'm usually up about the same time you are. Sometimes I fall right back asleep, other times I lie there until just before I have to get up, at which point I doze off for 10 minutes. GRRRRR.

[Ariana Celeste]

10. Usually not

at least lately. I've been kinda sick, so I wake up all hours of the night needing water.

Even when I'm not sick I can be expected to take forever to fall asleep and wake up at least once throughout the night. Every couple of months or so I go through bouts of insomnia.

Blah.

[dysfunctional press]

11. only with ambien.

btw- do you know how ambien got it's name...?

it goes like this:

a.m. = morning
bien = spanish for 'good'

the name is a bastardization of sorts of "good morning", because ambien doesn't generally leave you with a groggy hungover feeling when you wake up.

[NewWaveChick1981]

12. That happens to me every now and then, but generally, yes.

:hi: :hug: I'm sorry it happens to you often.

[Patiod]

15. theory suggests that sleeping thru the night is a new phenomenon

There an interesting book called At Day's Close: A History of Night Times Past which suggests that, before artificial light, people didn't sleep through the night. Reading old texts suggests that people went to bed slightly after sundown, woke around midnight and stayed awake for two hours or so, and then slept again until dawn. The time between "first sleep" and "second sleep" was taken up in prayer, meditation, or sex (fertility is particularly high at that time of night). Sometime women would even get up and work for a while (figures). This pattern was interrupted by the Industrial Revolution.

A really eye-opening book - and that's only a chapter or so; the rest deals with the establishment of the police, a discussion of night-shift work, etc.

[seemunkee]

18. Interesting

But I don't need an eye OPENING book.

[Patiod]

20. Well, it's actually a bit academic.....

pretty good reading if you want to fall asleep. But the theories are interesting, even if the pace is a tad slow...

[bikebloke]

22. My experience

When I was bike trekking, I'd pedal all day, then call it a night at dusk. Perhaps, listen to a bit of local radio. Then kip all night until the sun rose. Pretty much the same thing happened when I trekked Nepal. Unless the day's exersions were condusive to long sleeps.

[grasswire]

16. nope

I fall asleep immediately, always have. Two things wake me up several times per night. Needing to pee (sorry) and a cat that likes to plop himself on top of me. Well, sometimes I'm just too warm, too, and have to throw off the covers or open the window. I'd like to be able to sleep straight through. That would be restful, for sure.

[cwydro]

17. I wake up a lot

I don't mind if I go back to sleep, but that 3am wide awake thing really sucks.

[Arkansas Granny]

19. I usually wake up at least once during the night. Sometimes I

stay awake for an hour or so, but most times I go right back to sleep. If I've already slept 4 hours or more when I wake up, though, I might as well get up and make the coffee because I'm not going to be able to go back to sleep. A good nights sleep for me is about 6 hours, sometimes less. It's been that way for 30 years or longer.

[LibertyLover]

21. I t hink the last time I slept through the night was almost 4 years ago

See, we adopted this greyhound and she insists on going out at night - usually around 1 am, and then again around 3:30 am. She howls when she wants to go out (or to come in), so sleeping through it isn't an option, for me at least. My husband on the other hand has very little trouble sleeping through the night, most every night. Occassionally I miss the 2nd demand to go out and he has to let her out, but it's pretty rare. Then of course we have the kidlet who has bad dreams and wakes up screaming for mommy. Daddy won't do for bad dreams, it has to be mommy. One of these years I'll sleep through the night - but I'm not expecting it any time soon.

[Broken_Hero]

23. Yep, I sure do

I sleep like the dead just about...my wife has a hard time sleeping in past seven hours, because of some back problems, can't lay on her back that long...

[SeattleGirl]

24. Yes, I do. My problem is going to bed in the first place.

I hate going to bed, but I love falling asleep. Yeah, I'm weird.

[sakabatou]

25. My inner clock is screwed up...

[astral]

26. Almost never

unless I'd had about a six to eight-plus hour hike that day, which I'm afraid has become a rarity and nonexistent this winter. I frequently just wake up at 3:30 and get up, and get sleepy by 7:30 or 8:00 at night, getting up once or twice to go to the bathroom and (smart, huh --) drink some water on the way back to bed -- like a half a glass.

But I do fall alseep easily and seldom Just Can't Sleep -- usually only if something's really upsetting me.

[auntAgonist]

27. I never do ..

never have. probably won't ever.


aA

[RetroLounge]

28. Obviously not...

:hi:

RL

[reformedrepub]

29. I work all night

so the City of New York would be pretty pissed if I slept all night.....

[last_texas_dem]

30. Usually

The hard part for me is getting to sleep in the first place and sleeping a consistent number of hours nightly. Once I fall asleep I'm usually out for the night, unless someone or something else wakes me up, or every once in a while I'll wake up from some messed-up dream and with a horribly dry mouth- and I'll have to go get some water. But in general, I sleep through the night. However, I don't get a consistent amount of sleep because of having to get up "too early" for work (and I don't even work until the afternoon!), so I'll end up getting three hours one night, crashing early and catching up on sleep, then not being able to sleep the next night because of sleeping too much the night before, etc. I don't think it's that I'm supposed to always be waking and sleeping at a certain time and I'm thrown off 'cause I'm not getting to; I think I'm just cursed to never have a regular sleep pattern!

[chknltl]

31. Prostate says:

No way in hell!!!

































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