Sleep Disorders

[Sean Hayden]

Do we have any sufferers here? The disorders seem so bizarre to me. I've seen sleep walking, it's strange but it appears legitimate. But have you heard of sleep eating? Why should eating be a part of sleep walking to the point that it's what the person does every time they sleep walk?

What about sleep crime? (not a separate disorder -yet ) Is it really believable that a person can sleep walk, drive, commit murder and then sleep drive to the police station? I couldn't find the police station awake without looking it up.

What about sleep paralysis? This is when you wake up but your body is still paralyzed as it is during REM sleep.

Or what about restless leg syndrome? How freaking strange! There are many others. I'm often sleep deprived but that's normal for most people these days. Beyond that I don't suffer from any sleep disorders. What about you? Are you familiar with any of these strange conditions?

[Svartalf]

I tend to have trouble falling to sleep... and to wake up in the middle of the night (say, 3-4 AM) and have trouble falling to sleep again...

[Sean Hayden]

Insomnia ? I used to think I had that. But I'm just a night owl. I don't have trouble sleeping and rarely wake up in the middle of the night. Of course it's hard to wake up in the middle of the night when you're still awake.

[Svartalf]

well, I was a complete night owl for a time, could not sleep at night, fell asleep abut 7-8 AM and slept till noon, but I'm no longer that way.

[Brian Peacock]

I have sleep-onset and sleep-maintenance insomnia. It can be a bit of drag sometimes, but over time I've come to accept it and stopped trying to manage it with alcohol and drugs. Some things just is what they is.

[laklak]

Restless leg - my Grandad called it "the walking leg". He had it, Dad had it, I have it. It's horrible, though I haven't had a major episode for years (knock wood). I remember literally running up and down the stairs 50 times or more in a night to get it to fucking STOP. I sleepwalked when I was a kid, but not since then.

[Jason]

And just what the hell is wrong with alcohol and drugs?

[Rum]

When I was working (before I retired) I had many a deadline or presentation or report - or some unpleasantness to deal with the following day.

For at least five years - maybe more, before I retired, I would often wake at 3.30 or 4.00 and be unable to go back to sleep. My mind would race and ponder the issue of the following day, or a dozen others my job sometimes entailed. I would often feel exhausted as a result and even less able to deal with whatever it was the next day.

I thought I had some sort of sleep disorder and somehow never really connected the job with the sleep issue.

Since I retired - some years now - I have not had one single episode of this - a thing that used to happen two or three times a week at its worst.

[laklak]

Proof positive that work is terrible for you. I have a bit of trouble falling asleep sometimes, but once I'm out I'm out like Elton John.

[Rum]

Proof positive that work is terrible for you. I have a bit of trouble falling asleep sometimes, but once I'm out I'm out like Elton John.

I have to agree. Work is a truly terrible thing. It should be banned.

[Sean Hayden]

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep? A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest- and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.

--forever, that's how long you fat-assed king!

[JimC]

I tend to have trouble falling to sleep... and to wake up in the middle of the night (say, 3-4 AM) and have trouble falling to sleep again...

I'm a bit like that. Probably less trouble getting to sleep in the first place, but I certainly wake very early, and often can't get back to sleep. Mostly, I get up before 6 these days...

[Tero]

I sleep about 6-7 hours. If I do physical activity I need a nap about 3PM. In work life it was just more coffee to the end.

[Sean Hayden]

Supposedly the older we get the less sleep we need. Everything is backwards.

[laklak]

God did that on purpose, so you have more time in the middle of the dark, cold night to contemplate the futility of your existence without the warm love of His Holy Grace. You're Hellbound, atheist sinner.