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Just curious, randomly occurred to me as I hope to soon be in bed, because I have an appt. tomorrow. Am I the only one out there who routinely sleeps through appts and even more important things???
I think, people like us, who suffer from lack of sleep–chronically, or even those in the midst of on occasional bout of garden-variety insomnia, tend (and during those times tend to) value sleep so much that we will sleep through appts, important meetings, a class, a job, etc. i know, for me i have slept through both trivial & ridiculously important things. i will–even with TWO alarms set–just on auto-pilot–shut them off (versus snooze) and thus miss rather important/crucial/expensive things.
Examples: MULTIPLE plane flights i've slept through and missed. about half of any kind of “appt.” be it psychiatrist, therapy, hair, etc. slept through “you need to be at this place or this time it's super important…or else” type events.
Do others of you suffer from this oddly illogical, but almost uncontrollable and instantneous shutting off (single or multiple) alarns and missing important things??? Or, perhaps–as I have–you've literally lost MULTIPLE jobs because you slept in and were repeatedly tardy, or worse, slept through and did not show up at all???
I can definitely assure you are not the only one who 'misses' important appontments due to the effects of lack of sleep or sleeping at the wrong time….Dr's appointments, Hospital appointments, Work meetings, Therapy sessions…etc, I've missed them all
I have this uncanny knack of falling asleep just when I shouldn't…ie: around about 15 mins beofre the alram is set to go off as I have an appointment of some sort that day…and such is the sleep I descend into that I am completely oblivous to the alarm….I know that I should get up when it gets that close but to be honest it just happens, with book in hand and glasses sliding halfway down my face I am so unaware of it….
The other problem is the effect lack of sleep has on my memory, I always tell my friends and family, don't tell me anything as two things will happen, 1) I will forget and 2) I won't rememeber….I have numeroous diaries and reminders and I still fail to remember to go to an appointment…this cause no end of problems especially if I have missed a Dr's appointment, getting another one with my own Dr can sometimes take weeks, I even missed a brithday party and once forgot to go on a pre arranged date as I didn't know what day it was….never did get another chance there, 😮
So I can empathse with you, and say again…you are not alone….
🙂 🙂
You are not the only ones. I almost missed my flight back to the States in January. I've missed countless morning classes in the past two years, and even in high school I was late a lot. I actually went into the doctor late this morning & had to reschedule for the afternoon.
slept in missed my flight to Germany. Have missed multiple appointments and have slept through meetings.
Slept through a friends wedding missed it completely and to my surprise she is still talking to me
Sorry again for starting a topic, then going AWOL. It's nice to know I'm not the only one. People are always amazed at things I've slept through, but I think to insomniacs like us, sleep is such a precious commodity we will literally sleep through anything.
'seenafterscene' wrote on '13:Sorry again for starting a topic, then going AWOL. It's nice to know I'm not the only one. People are always amazed at things I've slept through, but I think to insomniacs like us, sleep is such a precious commodity we will literally sleep through anything.
I didn't get sleep for a few days and ended up sleeping through my best friends graduation, her and I were friends since we were 7, she understood though, made me take her out for dinner and dancing to make up for it.
I also slept through a funeral for a relative but it didn't bother me much since they always called me a fruitcake and other words.
Last important thing I slept through was a car accident LOL, when I was younger I fell asleep in the back of the car after seeing a sleep specialist, and we got into a car accident where a board crushed my moms pelvis.
I woke up in the hospital with some scrapes and bruises and a broken hand, i was like why am I in a hospital!
I have been sleeping a lot through the day lately, not sure why, and i feel life is passing me by, then I'm from about 3pm till 10 pm and sleeping again till 6am , up for a couple of hours and nod of again , and so it goes, i'm just so tired
'IvanAleisterMesniaa' wrote on '17:I didn't get sleep for a few days and ended up sleeping through my best friends graduation, her and I were friends since we were 7, she understood though, made me take her out for dinner and dancing to make up for it.
I also slept through a funeral for a relative but it didn't bother me much since they always called me a fruitcake and other words.
Last important thing I slept through was a car accident LOL, when I was younger I fell asleep in the back of the car after seeing a sleep specialist, and we got into a car accident where a board crushed my moms pelvis.
I woke up in the hospital with some scrapes and bruises and a broken hand, i was like why am I in a hospital!
My big thing, thank gooodness I was Mr. Overachiever and could get away with it, my big thing in college and HS was sleeping through class. I found little tricks, like propping your head up head down, eyes closed. Or sitting, RIGHT next to the teacher, that way she had to turn all the way to see my face and I could sleep. College was even worse.
I've also been known to literally fall asleep on the job so many times I've lost count–this includes both sitting and standing jobs.
Yeah, I definitely didn't sleep last night & finally fell asleep round 7:50a & missed my sister's internship presentation @ 9 that i promised I'd be at.
i often slept in and through class as a teenager. mostly because i was bored, i think. i've lost enough sleep to the point where i was sleepy through a few college lectures but usually held out till i could race home after classes to nap. i've missed things like the farmers market and so forth, but if i have something vital the following day (flight, meeting, outing) i try my best to make the commitment, even if i stay up just to make sure i don't oversleep. then i zone out after. the track record for this so far, has been decent.
'notwoodyallen' wrote on '12:i often slept in and through class as a teenager. mostly because i was bored, i think. i've lost enough sleep to the point where i was sleepy through a few college lectures but usually held out till i could race home after classes to nap. i've missed things like the farmers market and so forth, but if i have something vital the following day (flight, meeting, outing) i try my best to make the commitment, even if i stay up just to make sure i don't oversleep. then i zone out after. the track record for this so far, has been decent.
That's quite impressive given the severity of what you've described elsewhere. I think we could all maybe, “learn” a lot from you, because you seem to cope so well with it, despite it being bad.
i don't know if i have a real strategy – coffee, vivarin, amphetamines (if it's really important) and a brain that won't keep quiet seem to be the building blocks of my coping mechanisms. i couldn't in good conscience recommend this to anyone else. 😉
'notwoodyallen' wrote on '14:i don't know if i have a real strategy – coffee, vivarin, amphetamines (if it's really important) and a brain that won't keep quiet seem to be the building blocks of my coping mechanisms. i couldn't in good conscience recommend this to anyone else. 😉
Fair enough. My coping mechanisms for getting to sleep and staying awake are often not…ones I would suggest either.
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