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8 Years Ago
Ah yes, the big questions in life keep me awake such as "What is the top speed of the Popemobile?" What keeps you awake?
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8 Years Ago
Pain....and not switching to decaf at 10am. Worrying about everything or something in particular (usually family stuff). And lately because the room is too dang hot.
8 Years Ago
I sleep like the dead, but I'm up at 5am every day. I'd stay up all night to agree with Ed.
8 Years Ago
There is way to much time during the day to worry about stuff, night time is meant for relaxing,sleeping, and like Ed said, sex.Lol
8 Years Ago
I have to agree with Joy...except for the decaf, I don't drink anything but water, the colder the better.
TL Mair
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8 Years Ago
"What Keeps You Awake At Night?"
My wife.....repeatedly waking me up when I fall asleep in my chair, and telling me it's time for bed. :)
I get up at 0545 during the week.
8 Years Ago
I tend to fall asleep within a minute or two of hitting the bed. I'm usually up working until my body is passing out though.
I haven't been awake at night worrying about things in years. I figured out a long time ago that worrying is the biggest time waster there is.
8 Years Ago
There is a little evil man that jumps off of the painting on my wall late at night.He doesn't think that I can see him,but I can,right through his own eyes.
8 Years Ago
nothing. Hubby says I go from zero to asleep in 10 seconds.....I sleep 8 hours and then get up.
8 Years Ago
"For me it's art or a good RPG."
This. Art or Borderlands 2 or some new horror/adventure/survival game. Mostly art though. Or watching movies with my husband. I try not to take my worries to bed. They wait for you while you sleep.
8 Years Ago
Art doesn't keep me awake. I dream about art and problem solve in the process. I have recently realized that if I remember my dreams I gain creative ideas from them. It's great! Just have to remember them. I rarely have trouble sleeping. Pain might keep me awake but it would have to be really bad otherwise I'll sleep my 8 hrs.
8 Years Ago
2 cats blocking me from my keyboard, my mom having me fetch for her and trying to edit photos...think I'm going to move to Ed's house! That sounds like way more fun ;o)
8 Years Ago
Wonky brain chemistry.
Netflix.
PC/Internet.
Books.
Music.
Asthma.
Wonky brain chemistry.
Not necessarily in that order . . . ;-)
8 Years Ago
If I get really desperate....if I've been tossing and turning for over an hour and have to get my sleep for something I need to do the next day...I will take a Benadryl or a Tylenol P.M. (both are OTC) I will never take any prescription sleeping meds such as Ambien...I would be that person out roaming the streets of San Francisco in my pajamas, doing God knows what, and having no memory of it the next day. Those types of side effects have put a permanent scare into me. And Benadryl will knock me out in about 20 mins. I feel a tad wonky the next day but within a few hours of being up and having my one caffeinated beverage for the day, I'm pretty much back to normal...well, normal for me :)
Zueling, I hope your pain goes away soon, too! I have chronic pain that's not going anywhere.
8 Years Ago
Wondering why I thought it was okay to buy a house so close to a dog rescue? I assumed, like me, they would be a good neighbor and make some effort to bring them in or quiet them at nigh. I assmued wrong.
8 Years Ago
My sleep cycle reflects a timing problem. I do not get worn out by a 16 hour day. I keep working.
Then I pay a bit the next day.
Dave
8 Years Ago
Reading.
Indigestion.
Possums visiting.
Not in that order.
If it gets really bad, I just hop onto my computer and surf the net. I soon get tired of that... ;)
8 Years Ago
Mice in the attic.
Owl hooting out the window.
Mating coyotes.
The dog barking at deer.
I usually sleep good unless I'm traveling.
Sharon - you are like my wife. She can fall asleep after two paragraphs in a book or watching tv. Nice thing is I can still watch tv or have the light on. But I can't go to sleep until I know everyone else in the house is settled.
8 Years Ago
These odd Hot flashes....
and mood swings?....
Hubby complaining about me having "night terrors"
Hubby complaining because I am sweating like a beast
Hubby complaining about me taking my half out of the middle
Hubby snoring
Hubby complaining about me snoring
arguing with hubby because I DON'T SNORE.
8 Years Ago
Nothing now that the old lady neighbor moved. She was hell bent on finding me a wife. I do not want a wife but that didn't deter her.
8 Years Ago
that clown in my closet. he's in the darkness, but i know he's there, his shoes stick out.
---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com
8 Years Ago
If I can't sleep it's usually stress related and that stress is usually caused by my job. I'm doing better at not letting disagreeable situations at work stress me but every now and then.......
8 Years Ago
I sleep everyday 10pm till 4.30am. nothing awake me sleep like a log. ( I do not sleep with my wife got my own room to proper rest.) Otherwise I am grumpy next day!
8 Years Ago
I sleep the sleep of the Just - really well - only if my kids stir will it wake me. I must just be Just.
Photographic Arts And Design Studio
8 Years Ago
My wife and I just had a baby...so she (( the baby) keeps us up at night these days!
Matt
Photographic Arts And Design Studio
8 Years Ago
My wife and I just had a baby...so she keeps us up at night these days!
Matt
8 Years Ago
I usually sleep between 1.30AM and 5.20AM so it is deep sleep for that short duration. But I have been known to have the odd nap or two.
8 Years Ago
I suffer from migraines. Luckily they do not make me throw up. Sorry for being gross. I'm lucky because my migraines make me slightly psychotic, but since I'm aware of what is occurring, I can take a medication that I've been prescribed that solves the problem.
Last night a migraine hit which is the only reason I'm responding. It's been at least three months since my last one, so I'm also lucky that I don't get that many. My face below the right eye was itchy and I knew something was wrong, but I wouldn't scratch because I suspected it wasn't real, but rather imagined. I kept thinking someone unseen was deliberately attempting to keep me awake with a feather tickling my face. After awhile I realized that a migraine was approaching and I took something for it. All good after that, the itch sensation went away.
Although I think I'm lucky about the psychosis rather than vomit fest that precedes a migraine, I'm a little "weirded-out" by it because I feel like something itches inside my brain and the only way to scratch it is to open my skull up and scratch my brain. Talk about freaky. If you can come up with a story more freakier than this, way awesome to you!
I'm so thankful for modern medicine!!!
8 Years Ago
Ron,
The simple answer, is thinking! Thinking about stuff. Especially if I get up to pee and THEN start thinking, about the Future, Saving America, Kids,money,political stuff, things to add to my political blog, elections, things to do the next day, things that I must have forgotten to do for some reason(Yeah right), projects for my backyard garden, things that I want to grill or cook, getting through the season without a hurricane, mostly things that I know I can't fix or solve, stuff like that!
Modern medicine is indeed good, but have you tried some "ancient" medicines..........?
Rich
8 Years Ago
Sumatriptan/Imitrex and Botox...saved my life. I've had migraines since the age of 17, and for years when I worked outside my home, they would start up immediately after work on Friday and last all weekend until mid-day on Monday. The docs said I couldn't relax from the stress of work. Couldn't sort of shift gears. Years of meds that didn't work well, and then a brain tumor at age 25, which accelerated their frequency even after surgery. Finally I found a good neurologist out here in CA who discovered my nightime teeth grinding was also causing the migraines. They use Botox shots in the jaw now for that...and I've been getting them plus the Imitrex for about 10 years. I now have control of my migraines. I was about to literally give up just before I found my neurologist...she actually saved my life. The pain had escalated to daily at that point, with waking up already in the throws of a migraine....and this had gone on about 3 years...so I had no quality of life and was about to cash in my chips. So finding her was a godsend to say the least.
8 Years Ago
It doesn't keep me awake,...
........but the fog horn echoing at nearby West Quoddy Head Lighthouse really relaxes my state of being late at night
As does the sound of a howling wind during a northeast blizzard as it blows through the trees and landscape.
A pre-dawn or all night photo outing here in down east Maine is often responsible for keeping me awake as I continually explore the remote beauty of this place.
Other than that,....
My evening activities post processing images slowly and methodically keeps me up to the wee hours of morning culminating with an uploaded image to my FAA webpage.
Whatever sleep I grab in and around that seems to work.
8 Years Ago
Joy, I'm glad you found a good neurologist. I had to go through several before I found one who knew or understood migraine issues.
I never had them when I was young, and my first one was probably in my thirty fifth year, so by that time the technology in medicine had advanced enough that a migraine could be terminated with a vasoconstrictor pill. All the same meds that have worked for you, also have worked for me.
Luckily for you and I, there is an answer; I feel so bad for others who have chronic pain.
8 Years Ago
Usually it is my mind racing, doing over and over what I have done that day. An endless loop.
8 Years Ago
Lisa,
I worked my way through college in a hardware store. My boss was a really great guy. He used to get suicide headaches.
He had oxygen supplies by his bed at home and up in his office in the store. He would wake up each and every night
in massive pain.
He told me later that the moment he retired the headaches stopped. Like I said he was a great guy in a lot of ways. He
worked some 30 years with headaches to support his family business. The headaches began when he took over running the business.
His description of his first year vacation was that he could not leave his job as president of the company, could not do it.
His wife also in the business, the daughter of the owner, who had a massive heart attack at age 58 and died, his wife
pried him away for a vacation. It took so much stress off of him he was talking about it thirty years later when I worked there.
Dave
8 Years Ago
Ok Lisa... Here's one of many.. Last year, I woke up at around 5 in the morning facing my bedroom doorway looking out into the hallway. On the other side of the hall I am able to see my,at that time, 8 year old's door and into some of her room but I can see the whole doorway and the walls on each side around it on the outside. Anyway, upon opening my eyes, like within maybe 5-10 sec of awakening, I saw my daughter come out of her room and instead of coming into my room she went down the hallway towards the living room. I thought to myself, well she will get in the living room and realize that it's dark and come into my room. I thought for a moment perhaps she might have not been good and awake and she would realize it in a few. I stared at the doorway intensely, waiting for her to come running into my room! I never took my eyes of the doorway and even slid over in the bed waiting for her to come running and jump in with me. She never came! This went on for a good 5 min. or so and then I thought that maybe she just went back to sleep on the couch. She never went back into her room because I was watching the doorway the whole time. So like I said, after 5 min or so, I got up and went out into the hallway and towards the living room. Nothing can pass me the way my home is set up and as I glanced in the living room, well she wasn't there. From that spot I can also see in the kitchen where the stove light also lit the room and she wasn't there either. I thought this was strange , so I proceeded back down the hallway and stopped in front of her room and looked in and guess what? There she was, sound asleep. Like she had never been anywhere and hadn't moved! I was totally in awe and freaked out a bit! I went back into my room re-playing it over in my head, trying to figure this out and then I realized that my daughter was not wearing a white gown. It was pink. And if she(my daughter) had of came out of her room, her side and backside that was facing me would have been dark because the stove light shining down some of the hallway to her room doorway which should have just lightened up the front of her. I shouldn't have seen the color white from behind her and the gown was also translucent. She was translucent! What I still to this day do not understand and have yet to figure out is that why was it my daughter. Why did it look exactly like my kid! Her hair was the same as my daughters, the same cut, she walked like her and she cocked her head to the side some as my daughter does. The only thing I ever found about this on the internet was something about dobbelgangers and reading about that was creepy!
Ok Lisa- how was that? This is a true story though... And I have more where that came from..lol