Sleep

[Phil10]

Lately I've not been keen on sleep I like to enjoy a day and not keen on rest I keep thinking like when your not alive it will be like sleep so I don't like sleep if that makes sense? If I could live all day I would.

Sometimes I feel this way about food I wish I could just take a pill for food rather than have to cook.

Anybody else just find sleep a pain and wish you could go 24 hours a day?

[Kirk]

I have felt that way before, but I get so tired that I sleep no matter what.

[Ponder]

Sleep is essential for a healthy balance. Without it you simply end up exhausted only to go through the motions of restless sleep. Adopting the right mix of activity, rest, fresh air, sunshine and "real" food, are crucial to one's ability in creating melatonin which helps one to regulate the process of deep healing sleep. Other factors in melatonin is how dark the room in which one sleeps. These variable are but a few within the subject of "Sleep Hygiene (https://www.google.com.au/search?q=melatonin+children&rlz=1C1AVFC_enAU739AU740&oq=melatonin&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l5.3701j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=The+importance+of+sleep+hygiene)" Rather than taking pills to aid in melatonin, it's far FAR better to live a natural lifestyle based on circadian rhythm (https://www.google.com.au/search?q=melatonin+children&rlz=1C1AVFC_enAU739AU740&oq=melatonin&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l5.3701j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=circadian+rhythm+and+sleep).

Producing melatonin naturally. (https://www.google.com.au/search?q=melatonin+children&rlz=1C1AVFC_enAU739AU740&oq=melatonin&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l5.3701j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=producing+melatonin+naturally)

The is no quick fix. Learning and living a lifestyle that assists the body to create it's own melatonin and understanding how it is that the modern world is out of sync will help one better to fathom just how important developing healthy sleep habits really is.

If you really can't sleep then I suggest you give the following a good read:
https://solutions.softonic.com/ebooks/sound-asleep-the-expert-guide-to-sleeping-well

With some luck you may even fall to sleep while reading that book. http://www.sherv.net/cm/emo/word/haha.gif Seriously this book taught me how to sleep!!!

[Ponder]

Yea I know ... Much easier to take the pill! :rolleyes: Puts a little emote in as to make it easier to swallow.

A good fucking mattress helps as well !!!

[hellofriend22]

Maybe, although I'm not sure if that be good for your mental health being awake not stop

[willheal]

When I was young and had a surgery to get my tonsils out I was extremely nervous about going under. I went out like a light and woke up with no recollection and there's just this...emptiness in my existence that stretched some span of time. It was obviously just an hour or so but it felt like it could've been an hour, or 20 hours, or 90 years. It was just blank and I lost that continuity in my existence.

I think a few hours after I woke up I kinda realized how screwed up that is, even at that age I was struggling to understand why that felt that way.

I have trouble going to (regular) sleep now. I know it's kind of a balance, part of the parameters of our existence and we just need it to live. I still have a hard time falling asleep just for other reasons. Like, I'm restless and the energy just never stops, I don't get "tired" until I'm so exhausted that I'm overtired--and then I jump awake a lot. It sucks. Sleeping is weird. Living is weird. I try not to think about it too much.

[mrslizzyg]

You are preaching to the choir with this one.. sleep is my most difficult thing. I will sleep, eventually.... but I can easily be awake for 24 hours before I actually "get sleepy."
I LOVE being up past midnight when everything is quiet and I can just relax.... but unfortunately, this does not go over so well for my work schedule. If I go to long without sleep it eventually does make me less productive even if I do love it.

I had tried sleeping pills and all that mess- I can actually take some and stay awake THROUGH them. Others would give me terrible night terrors and shit. What helps me now is if I turn off all the electronics before bed, and I find a good book that gets me out of reality. This keeps me from thinking about my life and detaches me from reality enough to get me to not care and get my brain to shut down.

Just a suggestion. Not sure what might help but.. you never know. Getting more sleep really IS beneficial for any mental shit-regardless of how it feels. I always think staying up longer and longer is going to help but eventually it fails..

[musicmaker5454]

I have felt like that, the fear to fall asleep. After I have a panic attack about not being alive, its hard to go back to sleep in fear it will be just like that.

[HoustonPat]

My anxiety keeps me awake after only a few hours of drug induced sleep. I need REM sleep so badly! I'm a danger on the road in my F-150. negotiating traffic on busy freeways. I need to control my mind and body at night. I take 12.5 Ambien, Cyclobenzapine, and Klonapin. I'm a 61 year old guy in fear of loosing my job, then my wife. Help!

[gypsylee]

My anxiety keeps me awake after only a few hours of drug induced sleep. I need REM sleep so badly! I'm a danger on the road in my F-150. negotiating traffic on busy freeways. I need to control my mind and body at night. I take 12.5 Ambien, Cyclobenzapine, and Klonapin. I'm a 61 year old guy in fear of loosing my job, then my wife. Help!

I was having trouble staying asleep and my psych recently prescribed 2.5mg Olanzapine. I had it years ago for bad insomnia and it worked really well. Same this time.. I've been taking it at about 9pm and it doesn't make me tired but once I fall asleep I stay asleep for a good 10 hours. I'm also on 40mg Prozac and apparently that and Olanzapine work so well together for depression that in the US it's available in a combined pill. Might be worth talking to your doctor about.

Cheers,
Gypsy x

[Phil10]

I just feel sleep is pointless.

I hate having to go to bed. In my ideal world I would function 24 hours per day.

[gypsylee]

I just feel sleep is pointless.

I hate having to go to bed. In my ideal world I would function 24 hours per day.

I've been like that but only when I've been kind of manic (I'm not bipolar but I have had hyperactive episodes). Generally I can't stand insomnia and if anything would rather sleep 24 hours a day. There's one of those memes you see on Facebook which says "I love sleeping - it's like being dead but without the commitment" and I can relate to that ;)

[Rick(amateur)]

Sleep is different for everyone. I have a friend who needed needed 2 hours of sleep with a few 15 min naps here and there. I don't think I can function well with less than 5 hours of sleep a day.

At the end of the day, just do what you feel is natural. If you wake up rested and refreshed after 4 hours of sleep, then that probably is all you need.

[Ponder]

We all lead different paths but the human body is pretty much the same - as too - is its requirements when it comes to sleep. Science may be struggling with things like consciousness and the after life however when it comes to things like sleep ... the general consensus is that the human body needs at least 8 hours of "qualtiy" sleep for it to make adequate repairs. Those repairs being vital to our brain. The body's lymphatic system is what cleans our blood. Sleep is the only state in which our brain cells our able to rejuvenate. During the deep sleep the cerebrospinal fluid in the brain increases dramatically, washing away harmful waste proteins that build up between brain cells during waking hours.

"Our poor sleeping habits are filling our brains with neurotoxins" (https://qz.com/424120/our-poor-sleeping-habits-could-be-filling-our-brains-with-neurotoxins/)

"How Sleep Clears the Brain" (https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-sleep-clears-brain)

I highly recommend researching the science of sleep (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Sleep+and+fluid+in+the+brain) to truly understand just how important it is to our daily functioning. The quality of sleep hygiene, habits, routine, duration and state of rest dictate one's ability to function and cope throughout waking periods.

The differences in peoples physiology may require different chemical adjustments however when it comes to the cleansing process and the importance of sleep; the human body's requirement is virtually the same. Once you realise just how "vital" sleep is to one's health ... those who want to be as well as can be will not skimp on sleep.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVQlcxiQlzI


BODY POSITION DURING SLEEP
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x30/davekyn/body%20posture_zpsbagbdjti.jpg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L8TPckAsNU)


FLUID IN THE BRAIN
http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x30/davekyn/sleep%20cleaning%20the%20brain_zpstg1ld6x0.jpg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COFgTI_-1IM)

Don't Skimp On Sleep! ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/sleep/sleep.gif

[gypsylee]

The other thing about sleep is, of course, dreams. Our culture tends to dismiss them as "just dreams" but they're really important to me.

[TuesdayBlue]

Reading for at least an hour is the only thing that works for me!

[iwanttobeok]

Haha, I feel you. Going to bed with nerves, then overthinking sitting in bed suckssss. I usually make myself so tired I'm about to pass out, so I dance to a video and laugh at myself, focus on making a castle-worthy painting, or eat like a bird ( little amounts slowly ) to slowly fill myself up, or all of it xP I end up so sleepy I just want to zzzzzzzzzz