Insomnia Support Group
Insomnia is a symptom, rather than a disease, and is characterized by inadequate quantity or quality of sleep. People with insomnia complain of difficulty falling or staying asleep, which results in significant impairment of daytime functioning. Insomnia is categorized as transient (shorter than one week), short-term (one to three weeks) or chronic (longer than three...
Anyone remember back when you didn't have insomnia? Ever stayed up passed your bedtime and then all of a sudden, you're not sleepy anymore?
Remember how you felt the next morning when you didn't sleep the whole night because you were out partying all night?
You don't feel sleepy but you feel like crap and you know it's because you hadn't slept all night?
Well, that's how I am feeling now-a-days. I wake up normal and go through the day normal but 6 o'clock hits and I feel like crap, although I'm not sleepy.
So, in anticipation of feeling like crap, I go home around 4pm. Then, when I do feel like crap, I go lay in bed and probably fall a sleep within seconds.
I'm out and that's how tired I am.
Anyone ever experienced this? I wasn't looking for suggestions, instead just curious if anyone does this too? and why am I up now? lol, I had to get up to eat dinner. :) going back to sleep now. good night.
Remember how you felt the next morning when you didn't sleep the whole night because you were out partying all night?
You don't feel sleepy but you feel like crap and you know it's because you hadn't slept all night?
Well, that's how I am feeling now-a-days. I wake up normal and go through the day normal but 6 o'clock hits and I feel like crap, although I'm not sleepy.
So, in anticipation of feeling like crap, I go home around 4pm. Then, when I do feel like crap, I go lay in bed and probably fall a sleep within seconds.
I'm out and that's how tired I am.
Anyone ever experienced this? I wasn't looking for suggestions, instead just curious if anyone does this too? and why am I up now? lol, I had to get up to eat dinner. :) going back to sleep now. good night.
Yes...felt this on numerous occasions. I have read 5 insomnia books by various leading sleep researchers/docs. My understanding is that we feel bad but not sleepy after a sleepless night because our "alerting signal" during the day which reduces our ability to feel sleepy. This is basically a biological clock function. This signal reduces as the day carries on and gets overpowered by melatonin in combination with your our sleep drive (theorized to be adenosine accumulation).
You might be waking up early in the AM because of going to bed too early. As you sleep, you reduce your sleep drive (adenosine) to the point where the alerting signal overpowers and wakes you up.
Our biological clocks regulating sleep does best when we are consistent in our sleep schedule. If you have an irregular sleep pattern, your clock may be a bit "confused". If we time our sleep to when our clock is "programmed" to sleep, then we have the best chance to have restorative sleep....this happens to be night-time for nearly all people.
Seay:
That's a great explanation. I enjoyed reading it.
It's funny how I've been sleeping 12hr nights only to last roughly 8hrs.
If so, I wonder if you are having some kind of sleep disturbance whereby your sleep is getting broken throughout the night? It might be a good idea to see a sleep doc and perhaps get a sleep study done. Some of the more common causes are obstructive sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome and REM disorder.
I am not overweight nor do I snore but I have near-severe sleep apnea.
I watched a few SuperNatural episodes, had dinner, back to SuperNatural. It's 10pm now. I just came on to look and now, I'm off to bed.
Hopefully, it'll be better tomorrow. 'night.