Comments on: Segmented sleep

By: Smock Puppet, 10th Dan Snark Master and occasional Liaison Dangereuse

Smock Puppet, 10th Dan Snark Master and occasional Liaison Dangereuse — Thu, 02 May 2013 20:58:43 +0000

I hate tiny boxes.

By: Smock Puppet, 10th Dan Snark Master and occational Liaison Dangereuse

Smock Puppet, 10th Dan Snark Master and occational Liaison Dangereuse — Thu, 02 May 2013 20:58:10 +0000

Welcome to our siesta, Senora!! A nap in the middle of the day esta muy bueno!!

😀

By: J.J. formerly Jimmy J.

J.J. formerly Jimmy J. — Wed, 01 May 2013 15:22:21 +0000

Yes, neo, I’ve been to two sleep clinics. I’ve been diagnosed with the standard – sleep apnea. Have used a C-PAP machine for eight years now. It has changed nothing about my sleep patterns. The only thing I have noticed, other than it’s like wearing a fighter pilot’s O2 mask in bed, is an improvement in my dreams. I don’t have nearly as many dreams of impending doom or striving to accomplish something that I can’t quite get done.

Therapy? I’ve done a lot of that too. I know what my issues are. (super conscientiousness, deep seated anger, unresolved grief, co-dependency) I have coping techniques but am not always successful. I believe those issues affect my sleep. Since I have accepted my sleep patterns as being “normal” for me, I’m less stressed about it. Heck, I feel better just writing about it.

By: davisbr

davisbr — Wed, 01 May 2013 08:05:55 +0000

Unless I’m hyper busy, I usually sleep an hour or two in the late afternoon/early evening, am awake until 2-3A, and than sleep until 7A.

…and this gets adjusted all over the place to meet exigent need (so long as I get six daily, life is good …work demands may cut that down to 3-4 per for brief periods, but the crash following is dependable lol).

Heck, I thought this was insomnia. But if Winnie thought it a good idea?

…thanks for sharing.

I had no idea that the pattern was at least semi-normal, and that the very idea of 8-a-night was due to Edison.

Hmm. And doesn’t this cut the legs out of a bunch of specialist’s demanding we remain in some sort of REM 1/3 of the daily cycle?

What a hoot.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Wed, 01 May 2013 04:38:58 +0000

J.J.: have you ever gone to a sleep specialist or sleep clinic? You might look into having a sleep study done if you haven’t already. That’s the only way to diagnose what’s going on, and it could be helpful.

By: J.J. formerly Jimmy J.

J.J. formerly Jimmy J. — Wed, 01 May 2013 04:34:59 +0000

Sleep has been one of my bugaboos. Life as an airline pillot took me across many time zones often flying the “back of the clock.” Sleeping at differing times for a month then a new schedule the next month. It screwed my internal time clock up so much that my body does not ever seem to completely relax. I sleep for a few hours, awake, toss and turn until I finally fall back to sleep. I don’t get up because it disturbs my wife. However, when I do wake up at 6, 7, 8:30 or 9 (I don’t set an alarm unless absolutely necessary.) I feel like I never was asleep. I feel like I’ve been run over by a Mack truck. Takes me an hour to get going, but then I’m up for the day and never feel sleepy. I have never been able to take a nap, though I’ve tried. I think my system is always in fight or flight mode. As a result, it’s hard for me to get what I would call restful sleep. Doctors have been no help, and believe me, I’ve been to several. I follow all the prescribed activities with meager results. I quit worrying about it a few years ago, but nothing has really changed.

By: RandomThoughts

RandomThoughts — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:54:14 +0000

“You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner”

Yet more proof that Churchill was a man of wisdom. I love a good post-lunch snooze.

I always thought I was weird, sleeping for about 4 hours only to waking up around 2 AM, then going back to sleep for two or three more hours. And now you tell me it’s normal?! I don’t know whether to be relieved or annoyed (as this means I’m likely stuck with the pattern).

By: Gringo

Gringo — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:30:20 +0000

I will often wake up at 3-5 in the morning, stay up 1-3 hours and sleep until 9-10. I would rather sleep all night through, but that is what my body does.

By: roc scssrs

roc scssrs — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:10:48 +0000

The author Jerzy Kosinski slept 4-8 in the morning and 4-8 in the evening. So he went to bed at Churchill’s teatime, woke up for dinner, parties, concerts, etc. then back to bed when things wound down at dawn. Up at 8 a.m. to write.

Of course, he wound up killing himself. So be careful.

By: Ed Bonderenka

Ed Bonderenka — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:11:34 +0000

I read something about this a few years ago when I found myself sporadically doing it.
Now when I awake and can’t go back to sleep in the middle of the night, I just get up and read a while. Then retire again. I’ve learned not to panic about it.
I did post something about sleep that seemed to ring a sympathetic vibration with a few. I’m not flogging my blog, but I’d like to widen the sample to see if the phenomenon is more common than I thought.
http://ed-bonderenka.blogspot.com/2013/04/to-sleep-perchance-to-dream.html