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Answer for question 4489.
Aug. 21st, 2015 04:45 pmEdited to Add: Wow, I thought I was commenting on a friend's journal; I had no idea this would happen. I guess I'll leave it up. I didn't get into cats and how they can enhance or interrupt sleep, sometimes both in the same night.
Anyway, anecdotes about sleep or the lack thereof are welcome. However, please, please, please do not recommend sleep hygiene to me, not even just to note that it works for you. I don't want to hear about it. That kind of fanatical regimentation is absolutely guaranteed to stress me out and make whatever I am trying to accomplish much more difficult, maybe impossible.
[Error: unknown template qotd]Yes, I have trouble getting to sleep and also, no matter how easily I fell asleep earlier, I wake up five or six hours in and am awake for one to three hours; then, if there's time, I can go back to sleep and get a reasonable amount.
I have found ways to make falling asleep harder, so I avoid them. If I avoid caffeine within 8 hours of bedtime, using a computer or phone or watching TV within in an hour of bedtime, and eating within three hours of bedtime, I can go to sleep much more easily. I don't have any solution for the waking up and being restless for a while. Valerian, chamomile, melatonin, none of them works for that, and the people who say melatonin causes weird dreams are entirely right. I'd rather be awake, honestly.
Pamela
Anyway, anecdotes about sleep or the lack thereof are welcome. However, please, please, please do not recommend sleep hygiene to me, not even just to note that it works for you. I don't want to hear about it. That kind of fanatical regimentation is absolutely guaranteed to stress me out and make whatever I am trying to accomplish much more difficult, maybe impossible.
[Error: unknown template qotd]Yes, I have trouble getting to sleep and also, no matter how easily I fell asleep earlier, I wake up five or six hours in and am awake for one to three hours; then, if there's time, I can go back to sleep and get a reasonable amount.
I have found ways to make falling asleep harder, so I avoid them. If I avoid caffeine within 8 hours of bedtime, using a computer or phone or watching TV within in an hour of bedtime, and eating within three hours of bedtime, I can go to sleep much more easily. I don't have any solution for the waking up and being restless for a while. Valerian, chamomile, melatonin, none of them works for that, and the people who say melatonin causes weird dreams are entirely right. I'd rather be awake, honestly.
Pamela
