Insomniacs?
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I nodded off through part of QT last night, so finally settled down just before midnight. Woke up at four and tossed about for a couple of hours before giving up and coming online around six. Starting to feel a bit frayed at the edges now.
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I generally have no trouble falling asleep but if I stir/wake in the night getting back to sleep isn't easy. I like audio books or radio4 series, no excitement or loud sounds, open country, living world, ramblings, they just follow on. As I miss most of them I never tire of them as when I do listen I catch different parts 😉. My OH suffers more like you too so you have my sympathy. The important thing is NOT to disturb the sleeping one 😂😂
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If my brain is really wound up with something I stay up till late watching TV or listening to music. Sports programmes sometimes put me to sleep, a commentary from a football match is the best.
I'm glad to hear you eventually got some sleep WTG, the winter nights seem a bit long just now.
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Double Brandy maybe
I am a bit of a night owl, rarely in bed before midnight. My mind always seems more alive late in the day. The other side of that is that I rarely get up early, usually between 8-9.00am. I did read somewhere that insomniacs can't get to sleep because they spend too much time worrying that the can't get to sleep. I have been know to get up in the middle of the night and make a cup of tea which seems to work quite well. On the whole I have a reasonable sleep but usually not anywhere as long as the recommended 8 hours!
David
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We have a problem here in Wherenextshire. I read until I literally start falling asleep, around 11pm but Mrs WN doesn't nod off most nights until 1a.m.ish. If she knows she's going to be awake she'll disappear to the spare bedroom. But we then have the opposite in the morning where I'm ready to bounce out of bed at 6/6.30 but she'll be able to sleep until 9/10 a.m.
Obviously we compromise. When I say "we" I really mean "she"
.If only we could both realign our body clocks by one hour closer to each other. BTW we don't seem to have the problem when in the caravan, mainly because of the exercise that we get during the day.
I must admit that I can often wake up after 3 hours sleep and have terrible trouble dropping off again. A barking fox woke me up the other night yet I slept through the New Year fireworks and have slept through thunderstorms in the caravan. Go figure.
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I used to be a terrible insomniac, mainly due to work stress, and caring duties. I now go to sleep every night with a talking book of some sort playing through ear bud type headphones, one ear only. OH has timed me, and from head down, turn on audiobook, sometimes I am away in as little as 30 seconds! Not always, but doesn’t usually take much so long as I have something distracting me from thinking too deeply.
I tried all sorts before this worked for me, and have probably done this for last twenty years or so. It helps to have a dark room as well, we have full blackout curtains. I don’t drink tea or coffee after 6pm, the book mustn’t be too exciting otherwise you end up “over listening”, and sometimes reality gets a bit tangled up with the bedtime listening, but I do get a great nights sleep. Sleep quality for me is always better after 4am as well. Fresh air and exercise help as well during day, even if it’s only a short stroll with dogs.
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Do any of you remember your dreams? I have never been able to, apart from tiny fragments which make no sense. Mrs WN can tell you everything, verbatim even, which can be very trying for her as she doesn't seem to get much benefit from the sleep. She doesn't like reading fiction before sleep as it can be the basis of her dream.
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Simon Hoggart was probably kept awake thinking about Christmas Round Robins!!!
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Not a great sleeper myself but OH drops off in seconds most nights. I find I tend to over listen for things, must go back to the days of young children or being on my own when OH was away.
These days if I find myself doing that I put a pair of ear plugs in and it seems to work as I get a great sleep then.
Don't seem to have the problem when away, in the van or otherwise sleep great, unless I know I've got to get up at a given time, then I hardly sleep at all.
At home generally go to bed anything from 10.30 - 12.00, get up around 09.00 - 10.00.
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Same here David, we haven't done a long flight in the last 2 years (anything over 5 hours)
We have a few coming up though, with 8 hours to Dubai. Then on the way home we have Singapore to Dubai, with a 6 hour layover, then another 8 hours Dubai to Glasgow.
Really not looking forward to the return. We only have 10 days to get over it before flying off to Lanzarote
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Just take the van to a club site for a couple of weeks then, David, instead of going to Cuba next year - that'll solve the problem!
Actually, might want to pick your brains about Cuba later in the year - although we're not off to Sri Lanka for another month yet, it's never to early to start planning for 2020!
I'm lucky, I think, in that, nowadays I seem to be able to nod off at will so long distance travel doesn't affect me, but it always takes Mrs M a few days to catch up, doesn't seem to make any difference if we're going east or west! Different story when I was working, though, and had several spells of difficulty sleeping - one of the benefits of retirement!
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Know the feeling well or something similar. Often used to compose very difficult correspondence about 2am! Just used to write or type up ready for the morrow, easy to drift off afterwards. Wasnt particularly concerned about it at the end of the day but a bit of kip and bang. Funny things our brains!
These days I can still be wired in the middle of the night but work stress has gone 😀. I just accept that unlike my OH I'm alert and ready if i wake, no hour or 2 coming round 😂😂😤😤 and tune into the spoken word and relax. More often than not I soon fall asleep again.
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Redface:.....so you wake up, before I even think about going to bed. I certainly haven't been to bed before about 3am this week - and sometimes much later. Mind you, I do sometimes drop off in the chair for very short snaps (but not on Thursdays or Friday's when I am out taking choir practices). I take beginning to not off in the chair ias my que for going to bed.
I didn't get back from Singers practice until about 11.45pm tonight. I've watched several catch-up TV programmes. Have answered some emails, have had a look around CT and have got on with choosing hymns for services in February. I can still carry on for a bit before going to bed....
I don't go to bed until I am sure I'm ready to sleep. Fortunately, once I'm asleep I tend not to wake up until it's time to get up.
David..... 2am (all but a minute... 😀)
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