Posted on 01/26/2020 11:57:51 PM PST by nickcarraway
It’s perfectly possible to feel tired and at the same time have trouble dropping off. Certain life stresses and health problems can leave us feeling exhausted, but at the same time make it difficult to relax and get to sleep. Also, missing out on sleep can disrupt our natural rhythms, which can make us feel wide awake when we’d usually be sleeping.
Finally, caregivers sometimes refer to their infants as being ‘too tired to sleep’. This happens when the baby has been awake for longer than their little bodies can cope with, resulting in stress and difficulties settling.
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I’m rather the opposite. I’m not sure I’m even awake right now.
Yes.
I’m a firm believer that a lot of the reason that people have troubles is that we are no longer on a natural sleep cycle because we have imposed an unnatural 8 hours at night as the standard.
Traditionally there was something, I think it was called a False Morning, where if you went to bed when the sun went down you would wake in the middle of the night and then sleep again after an hour or so. I read something where most colonists would use this time to do some reading in bed. I’m trying to find my references, but so far no luck.
It’s called first and second sleep.
Thanks, windcliff - it’s been about 5 years since I read about it.
That is good advice, it’s just COLD out there in the winter. Michigan
“How do I find out more about this, didn’t get anything on google. THX”
I got it from a physiology book I purchased about 10 years ago, when my daughter was enrolled in a nursing program. I had to learn physiology for myself so that I could coach her over the phone while she was at college.
I also taught her the biochemistry involved in efficient studying. You body only has enough materials to remember 40 minutes worth of stuff. It takes 2 hours to manufacture these proteins and enzymes. So, only 40 minutes of every 120 minute period is useful for retaining information. In other words, study for an hour and take an hour break before trying to cram again, because everything you are exposed to after you’ve expended you memory proteins and enzymes is lost.
Interesting.
Having a toddler full-time at 72 is difficult, and maybe unfair.
My problem is not forcing myself to get up and go to bed. I usually leave my computer and TV in my office and read some in a book after I lay down.
My problem is that after staring at the clock for 30 minutes, I'm back in my office on the computer because I can't fall asleep. This, after I can keep my eyes open to read any longer.
I also take a diuretic for my blood pressure and that gets me up every hour and a half to two hours to pee. It's a crapshoot as to whether I can fall back to sleep after if finish in the bathroom.
It's a vicious cycle.
Yes. I’ve always had a terrible time sleeping. I can fall asleep virtually anywhere for an hour, but rarely for a longer period of time. I fell asleep once in the middle of Heathrow airport, and various other public places. I’m awake most of the night, and if I’m lucky, I am able to nap for 20 minutes to an hour during the day.
Even Mayo recommends up to 3200 mergatroids per day, while I take maybe 150.
I go by my own experience.
I have poor joints and have received two new shoulders, a knee they can't believe hasn't given out yet, a bad crooked toe they wanted to fuse, and a couple sets of (mostly unnoticeable) leg braces.
I spend an hour and a half in the gym every three days, do lots of stretches, 3 or 4 hundred stomach crunches, 40 pull-ups (GOOD pull-ups) and good hard ten minutes on the stairmaster.
I choose the latter because it is very low impact and mimics the motion I need to climb mountains and cross rivers, which I do quite a lot of.
By my own method I sleep well, wake refreshed, and don't let much of a damned thing slow me down.
That's all I can say.
Roger that. The little girl has lost her dad of a drug overdose and her mother has put her at risk by not taking care of her properly. She's also a drug addict and alcoholic. She has untreated mental heath issues as well.
The state took the child away from the mother and placed her in my home as a foster child in June until the mother could get her act together. That hasn't happened and the family court judge will permanently sever the mother's parental rights in a hearing next month.
As a side note, this little girl is the 7th child of this woman at 40 years old. She has permanently lost her parental rights for every single one of them. Astonishing.
95% of the time the girl is a charm. We give her a clean home, structure and love, which all little kids needs. But she is a two year old and like most toddlers, she can throw some doozy temper tantrums. And she has separation anxiety about being removed from the mother and acts out besides the tantrums.
But this all comes after being retired for 10 years and living a peaceful life with no drama. My blood pressure rises with the severity of her tantrums and it is stressful on me.
But as far as it being unfair, it is what it is. I didn't expect this in the autumn of my life but I'm doing the best I can. The little girl has no one else so it falls on us. She has no choice in the matter.
Thank God no Explosions in My Head. That would suck !
I don’t think so.
That’s better than Generic...
I did 72 hours in college one time. At the end I was craving sleep so badly it was all I could think about. When I was finally able to hit the sack it was like heaven. I was out in seconds. While awake I too had sluggish thoughts and difficulty thinking through simple stuff. Also micro sleeps where I’d nod off unintentionally for a few seconds. It’s amazing how essential sleep is.
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