Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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After getting up early all week, then being off today and wanting to turn over and go back off again, I awoke this morning at 04.15, and found myself wide awake and unable to go back to sleep. Years and years like this. On night work over the years, regardless of how busy or tired I`ve felt, it`s always been 4 or 5 hours at the most for sleeping in the day. Anyone else with similar sleep habit`s?
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Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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COLIN
Yep being a shift worker know what you mean, no matter when I go to bed im normally awake 5am maybe sometimes 5 30am
I'm very much a light sleeper(I can hear ants walking up the path lol)
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes Colin after 50years of working about 12 to 14 hours aday even more somtimes and at weekends and working away in digs and overseas I still fine I am awake about 0400am in the mornings and find it hard to slow down indeed I do not do that.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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thats obvious you cant slow down on posts!!! sending two lol
Yes Colin - after 4 children and a lifetime of working my natural wake up time is 4am, and a lie in is 6am once in a blue moon. And I love it! I wouldn't miss those early mornings for anything - when I am working away and commuting daily, in the Spring and Summer driving out of Dover at that time of the day, with the sun rising behind me shining in the driving mirror and casting a mystical glow over the sea, accompanied by the sound of birds waking up and seagulls calling is an experience not to be missed, and to have it every day is a real privilege.
5 hours - to be grumpy on waking
6 hours - to be unsociable on waking
7 hours - to be annoyed for sleeping for so long.
In case you don't get the drift, I am not good when woken!
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Colin
As you know we often 'see' each other posting on here in the early hours. I manage on approx 3-4 hours per night.Normally less if my leg plays up.
Marek
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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most of us need less sleep as we get older.
hence the teenagers that sleep in until the crack of noon at weekends.
i must admit i am the same as sid, best not to come anywhere near me for the first hour after i wake.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Apparently its a myth that we need less sleep as we get older.The problem is that we usually waken easier due to an aching body or visits to the loo.The young produce a hormone whilst sleeping which helps with their development,growing etc.So believe it or not its sometimes advisable to let your kids lie in for an extra hour or two as this hormone is only produced whilst young and your asleep.
Marek
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It is also advisable because they are unrecognisable beasts if prodded before the apporpriate time. Poking a tiger with a sharp stick is less of a risk..............................
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Marek
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I suffer from insomnia so I can have anything from 3 or 4 hours (off and on) to 9 hours when I am so exhausted I can barely move.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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With four children in the house I will take as much sleep as I can get.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Amen to that!
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Haven`t got to get up tomorrow morning either. Any tips for a good night`s sleep tonight?
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Alec Sheldon
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The clocks go forward tonight Colin so that's one hour accounted for.
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I've tried everything from alcohol, warm baths, lavender oil, reading, counting, exhausting myself during the day, no caffeine for a couple of hours before bedtime, getting up earlier and can state that most of them don't work (for me.) I was actually the (tired
) face of the Sleep Well campaign last year. I am currently trying a blue light box which is supposed to induce sleep. It flashes a subtle blue light which gets lighter and dimmer and mimics the heartbeat. Eight nights out of ten I don't find it particularly effective but sometimes I think it works.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I find that my sleep is always disturbed by very vivid dreams which I remember in detail the following day.So even asleep its far from restive.
Marek
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I have developed a really useful method of "power-napping". Given my long commutes, long hours, and fairly challenging work arenas I have found a five minute "rest" sees me through. I have developed the ability to shut down for 5 minutes exactly - I can do this anywhere, and often pull over into motorway service stations to do this to prevent driver fatigue. I take a couple of minutes to actively "rest" myself, or shut down, and can shut off and then "wake up" in precisely 5 minutes!! I think I am lucky to be able to do it, and can't imagine what it would be like without!!
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Marek, I often have the same sort of thing. At one point I 'trained' myself to wake up after a dream so I could jot it down. It still happens.
Bern you are lucky, my husband can do the same.