The wide awake club.. or, why are you still up?

None of that… apart from the stretching, happened, and the time for much music to be played was now… not then.

Tonight will not be another sleepless night, as I am not sleepless, but sleep-y… and I have much to do, from now till the weekend, and tiredness ain’t productivity’s friend (honey). :angry-nono:

In recent weeks I have started staying awake for 36 hours, and then sleeping for 12 hours+, but I don’t know why, and I’m sure it will only be a temporary thing until my body clock resets itself… I have recently come back from a 5 hours behind place, and it started after that, and I do know that chronic fatigue (even though it is (finally) lessening its grip on me) causes the mind… and subsequently the body, to be stuck in an autonomic and/or parasympathetic nervous system response to external stimuli, as has happened with my flight or fight response lasting weeks at a time… now that is not fun.
The same goes for a tan… taking many months to shed, and being as itchy as hell… until the last of the sun-afflicted skin has finally sloughed off, so sun factor 50 to avoid such annoyances is needed.

But this time round… as I remember this happening before, I have energy to be productive, rather than just lie there in a state of lethargic boredom, so can’t complain. :slight_smile:

I can only wait but see if I will be up for 36 hours again today, as yesterday was a 16 hour sleep day… which I woke up from at noon today… but that was only due to the cat meowing at my door for his first Whiskers-as-good-as-it-looks fish selection sachet of the day… otherwise I had no inclination to get up. :neutral_face:

15 hours of sleep later and I’m now wide awake at 5.35am… fell asleep this exact time yesterday after my oldest sister’s Labanese birthday dinner… where I told the maître d’ he was a big guy and everyone took it to be in a sexual manner :blush: and we had complimentary pittas baklawa Mohallabieh and coffee, followed by dancing at Kings till near-dawn… where I twice interrupted three guys playing darts to keep getting the bulls eye and triples and where I started chatting to a guy in a Gant t-shirt and gave him my number :open_mouth: he messaged me around 7 o’clock this evening… I have yet to reply… he’s very very young. :neutral_face:

These are the king of things that happen when you don’t get out enough. #-o

You drift into it without being fully aware of it and before you know it it becomes this new habit you have acquired
I have been up for over 40 hours now and so should have gone to bed at least 4 hours ago but sometimes you can squeeze a bit more time
I havent been out for a couple of days and so this is why because when I last went out I walked 5 / 6 miles so I was only awake for 20 hours
The longest I have gone is 57 hours but that is quite rare so I usually do between 20 / 35 hours depending on how far I have walked that day

People who sleepwalk can do many things including driving perfectly safely even though completely unconscious
The body knows what to do because the knowledge is stored in the memory and so being asleep is not a problem

There is no consistency… it seems to happen every few days or so, so a pattern of sorts.

Are you productive during these long bouts of awakeness? There’s nothing worse than being wide awake, but not being able to actually do ‘anything’ simply because you can’t. :neutral_face:

Yes… the more active I am, the longer I sleep for, to the point of crashing out.

This last paragraph is true for me… my blood pressure would go through the roof upon awakening, at the thought of having to get through the day. I don’t think that that is so much the case now.

That is one thing I do not do, and I find those that do creepy and/or scary. :open_mouth:

I do not like being creeped out by oddities!

Agree… Sleepwalking is pretty creepy, my sister used to sleep walk and i would be kind of creeped out, a few times she fell asleep with her eyes open. Extremely odd stuff.

sounds like a good time though, I wish I could get out and do things like this without anxiety. Well lucky him then, young or not haha.

Have you ever tried melatonin capsules with chamomile? Perhaps cbd? Isn’t cbd available in uk now? It helps with insomnia if you don’t want to stay awake for that long. I consider myself a modern day shaman at this point.

They are not aware that they are doing it because its completely unconscious
You cannot choose not to sleepwalk so if your mind wants to do it then it will

tell us more. very informative, and i did not read anything like this in my entire life.

:laughing:

I have no doubt that I will never see him again, but a fun night of drinks and dancing (and darts :laughing: ) it was. :slight_smile:

They both sound good, but I’m trying propolis for both pollen-desensitisation and internal-healing of cells, which induces a tiredness that cannot be stopped, but when my being feels overwhelmed by the propolis enzymes I stop taking it for a week or two and then the insomnia sets back in.

I might consider trying the melatonin capsules during the propolis break, so that I at last get more sleep during that downtime from it. :-k

Sounds like you need to get out more :-k

Yesterday, asleep around 5am… up at after 5pm this evening.
Today, still awake at 2.30am, so maybe asleep a few hours from now… I have things to do tomorrow. [-(

If you are confirmed hardcore medical case, then you have to accept that fact or has to take sleeping pills.

If you are NOT a confirmed hardcore medical case, I believe there are various sleep strategies you can take.

  1. Visit a sleep doctor to confirm if possible whether there are any underlying problems.
  2. Take up meditation - proper fool proof methods.
  3. Practice effective breathing methods
  4. Get a fitness watch to monitor sleep patterns
    mi.com/uk/mi-band-3/ - cost less than 30 pounds
  5. Try melatonin prescription
  6. An effective exercise regime

I believe there are many good sleeping strategies found within the internet.

However the most critical element here is discipline where meditation and breathing techniques will help.

I believe for a normal adult person sleeping 7-8 hours [relative to age, older = less] starting 11pm-12am is sufficient.
My smart watch recommend 10 pm as a starting to sleep time, but I don’t think that is compulsory.

If you have a strategy, and had slept at 5.30 am, you should set an alarm to wake up at 12.30 noon and do some hard tiring exercises so that you will feel tired by 12.00 midnight.

If you cannot fall asleep you must still lay in bed by say 12 midnight while doing meditation or shamanic breathing which will take one’s attention from one wanting to sleep.

I’m awake at 3 am merely because of the newly found need to resolve almost catch22 situations, not that they have not had any precedence in more general and more inclusive concerns, (hoping to find solutions on that wider basis), &(fearing confusion between real and unreal connections between theoretical and practical applications thereof, due either to mere memory disconnect then from covering a cowering state of mind leading to suppression and/or denial).
but, also, the fear of oversleeping my life away, where I may suddenly may empathise with the rude, too rude awakening in, " All life is but a dream".
I guess it goes down to increased awareness of the .hourglass.

I have other issues causing the problem, but don’t worry about it. :wink:

Why am I still up…? a fibro headache, is why. :neutral_face:

…a cup of Organic tea w soya milk, for me.

…a hypothermic non-regulation of body temperature this time… nothing that an electric blanket on low can’t resolve… for now.

Can it be called breakfast if one hasn’t slept? Well… either way, that’s what I’ll be having.