In my entire life, I have had the uncanny ability to lay down ANYWHERE under almost any CIRCUMSTANCE and fall asleep within 5 minutes or less.
I started napping as a kid, worked in the newspaper business as a pressman and slept on steel catwalks, in piles of discarded newsprint, inside a printing press that was not running at the time and laying on top of a rolls of newsprint.
I've fallen asleep in reclined chairs, firm chairs and chairs where I put my feet up on a desk.
In the outdoors I've fallen asleep on the grass at picnics, in lawn chairs at parties, on the top of a hood of a parked car and even standing up while leaning on a parking meter at the end of a night of drinking.
I can sleep in the passenger seat of a car, plane, boat or a rubber dinghy in a pool and even in a bathtub when just right.
Lately for the first time in life I've got my sleep schedule and the amount of hours I am sleeping all screwed up and I'm not sure what time it is each time I wake up. I'm working weird hours and sleeping even stranger. I know some is due to being older but not getting sleep sucks moose cock and I'm done with it!
When I was in the Navy I met a little cutie at The Barbarella Club in Singapore. After a few drinks, a few dances....
little cutie....we go my place?
Me...you lead I'll follow.
So we grabbed a taxi and off we went.
After the fireworks I fall to sleep, only to be woke up by little cutie, she was standing looking down on me, hold it.....who is this laying next to me, yep....little cutie. Then it hit me....a twin.
She motioned for me to follow her to her room............
The next day back on my Ship (USS Horne)......
buddy....dude, didn't you get any sleep last night, when did you get in?
me....a little (I knew he wouldn't believe my story, so why bother) [Reply]
When I'm mildly tired, I have the ability to set my alarm for 3 minutes, be asleep in about 60 seconds, have vivid dreams, and then wake up 2 minutes later completely refreshed. My job requires me to work all sorts of odd hours and I refer to this as my 'superpower' that allows me to do it without being miserable. [Reply]
I've always sucked at sleeping. It takes me a while to fall asleep and I wake up 7-8 times through the night (at least, often more than that). It doesn't help that for the last 25 years, I've worked a job where I have to be at work at 5 am when I'm a natural night owl (I love working graveyard and would do it now if I could), have tinnitus and sleep apnea, and have arthritis in both shoulders, which can make sleeping on my sides painful.
The things that have helped are a CPAP for quality of sleep, though it doesn't help with getting to sleep or the waking up through the night (I wake up several times a night to adjust the mask and move the hose when I roll over), a box fan in the room to provide white noise to cover up the random noises and tinnitus, a Medicline pillow for the shoulders and just knowing I'm only going to get 6-7 hours of interrupted sleep on worknights. [Reply]
1. Use your bed only for sleep or sex.
2. Remove any blue LEDs from the bed room
3. Avoid screen time, food, and drink within two hours of bedtime
4. No caffeine within six hours of bed
5. No exercise within four hours of bed
If that doesn't work, you can try pharmaceuticals
1. Melatonin is natural, but you can still experience a hangover effect from it.
2. First generation antihistamines can be helpful for short spurts, but after two weeks the body becomes accustomed to the hypnotic effect, but still experiences the sedative effects. What this means is that you feel tired, but you can't sleep. They also have prolonged half-lives that can lead to a hangover effect
3. Beyond that, the Z-drugs (Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata) are used most often, but have issues with dependence and complex behaviors, as well as different half-lives which make certain agents better than others depending upon your type of insomnia
4. Belsomra (suvorexant) is an orexin antagonist--it blocks a hormone that promotes wakefulness. It is controlled because studies showed that people wanted to continue taking it (and may have issues with dependence), but further studies demonstrated less abuse than other common agents, like Ambien. [Reply]
Two things I've increased again in the past 3-4 months that I have to knock off: too much caffeine and too much wine and beer, especially white wine and heavy IPAs or Russian Stouts
I'm thinking they are screwing up my normal good sleep that I've always had. [Reply]
Two words that will change your sleep forever: microfiber sheets.
We've always had cotton sheets for summer and flannel sheets for winter, but my wife bought some microfiber sheets earlier this summer. Wowza. They're really soft and light, but do their job just like cotton, and I feel like I'm never sweaty when I wake up. It's like you're sleeping in a cocoon or something. Anyone else do microfiber sheets? [Reply]
