I think this is true. I’m pretty much awake 24 hours per day. I don’t even know how I’m still alive,
short answer is YES. (Up at 2am). I need to work at getting on a sleep awake schedule. Don’t have issues except in the winter. Shutting down the brain is key. Also melatonin helps.
[[Is It Possible to Be Too Tired to Sleep?]]
Lemme sleep on it, if i can, and I’ll give my answer in the morning
I have a problem where I get severe hypnic jerks if I have been awake for long periods of time. They jerk me wide awake just as I am dozing off and I can have over half a dozen attacks.
yes. Been there. it’s miserable.
Advil PM works miracles for this problem.
Yes..had this occasionally when younger...now at 77 I sleep less ...main sleep is 4 hours...but I know this and if my body tells me to slow down any time during the day I take a nap,,,if driving I pull over and park in the shade and take a half hour nap.
What I really hate is when you are too dirty to go to bed but too tired to take a bath.
I also take a diuretic for my heart and that means I'm up every hour or two to pee at night. Sometimes I can't fall back to sleep and just stare at the clock. That's why I'm at the computer at 5 AM typing this.
My normal biorhythms are disrupted when I'm under stress and not following my normal routine. I also don't think a full 7-8 hour sleep at night is needed as I get older and my physical activity during the day has slowed down.
Some days I get so tired I can't keep my eyes open but if I try to lay down to take a nap, I can't fall asleep.
It's inexplicable why sleep is more difficult at age 72 but it is.
“Too tired to sleep” is when you are watching television (or surfing the internet) even when there is nothing to see, yet can’t force yourself to get up and go to the other room to go to bed.
I’ve have had this issue on occasion. It’s real, and for the issues sited. At least for me it was.
I’ve been in a stretch where I can’t sleep in bed. To get rest, I have to sit in a recliner. Sleep very well there, but in bed, just lay awake.
How can you recharge without sleep?
Sleep is divided into 4 segments each about 90-120 minutes in length. 1st segment fights infections, repairs injuries and rebuilds damage. 2nd segment manufactures hormones, enzymes, chemicals, antibodies and various blood cells (red & white) needed by the body. 3rd segment does cleanup, removal of dead cells, and processing of waste. The final segment moves waste, urine and mucus to where it can be eliminated when you wake up.
If you don’t let the body do these things you aren’t helping yourself.
Yep - when one is running on adrenaline and possible other stimulants to keep going, it takes a bit of relaxing before the stem clears enough for sleep to happen...
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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.