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To ease the time I have after I wake up so early, I'm writing a blog that nobody will probably ever read. I've written in my journal consistently since this all began,and after a little while I started writing on Ambien because it was good for a laugh the next day when I was sad. So I'm just going to type them down and scan the pages of the awesomely written scrawl (looks like a five year old's when I've taken Ambien, and there is a lot of misspelling, and swearing). I call it “The Almighty Ambien Blog”. That is what I'm going to do when I can't sleep right now.
What do you do to pass the time?
Please share a link to your blog we can follow your writings! Mike also writes a blog about his insomnia: http://www.insomniasimplysucks.com/
Maybe in addition to having a Twitter directory for insomniacs, we need to have a blogging directory!
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It's just all of journal entries since this thing started… But it gets quite funny at times.
Thanks for posting the link – I'm going to take a look!
Many of our members write when they suffer with insomnia – some get stuck into novels (one member just signed a publishing deal but recently went AWOL!).
I guess writing in itself is a good outlet and a distraction that isn't strenuous so there's still a chance for sleep to find us.
It would be interesting to hear from other members to see how they pass the time during bad bouts of sleeplessness. Hopefully we'll see some more contributions to this thread.
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Mostly I play a lot of games on Steam, or endlessly scroll through Tumblr, or do stuff in Photoshop. Sometimes I just lay in bed and listen to music.
When I cannot sleep I tent to use social networks, read a few websites or play on my iPhone…I sometimes blog as well depending on how the mood takes me.
I have had many aproaches to passing the time, and this depends on how severe my insomnia is at the time. When I have a good foundation of sleep and have isolated sleepless nights, I can get up and do things that are productive like cleaning, writing, etc..
When I am having long term insomnia with very little nights of restful sleep it is more difficult. Sometimes I am so tired that I can't keep my eyes open to read so I just lay in bed. Also, there have been many nights awake in bed where I took sleeping pills but still could not sleep so I was to tired to moved, but still couldn't fall asleep.
My most common past time in bed is reading. I started out last year only reading book for fun. Then I switched to reading textbooks, which was really putting me to sleep for a while. Then I was reading motivational or metaphysical type books. Then I switched back to school books, which now no longer put me to sleep for some reason. I was wanting to write a book, and started that when I was up at night, but it was short lived. Now I have decided that I will get online when I'm awake, because there are so many things to look at I'm hoping it will completely take my mind off the insomnia, and kind of make me feel reset to go to sleep when I am done.
When its really bad, I cry here and there just to get out the frustration.
I daydream (or night dream I suppose).
The internet only takes me so far into the night and then I read but eventually my eyes get tired even if I'm really enjoying a book. My body might be ready to sleep but my brain refuses to shut down and I can't relax.
When I daydream I don't generally think about anything specific, partly because I have so much trouble focussing on anything anyway but I do become aware that I am zooming through random thoughts and not any closer to falling asleep. Annoying.
I feel the same at night. I try to read when I can, but sometimes I am to tired to read and can't even keep my eyes open. Sometimes I feel so tire I can't even move or talk but just don't fall asleep. Same for me..my mind races from topic to topic and I don't even realize it until after significant time has passed. Yes, very annoying
'Kik' wrote on '03:I daydream (or night dream I suppose).
The internet only takes me so far into the night and then I read but eventually my eyes get tired even if I'm really enjoying a book. My body might be ready to sleep but my brain refuses to shut down and I can't relax.
When I daydream I don't generally think about anything specific, partly because I have so much trouble focussing on anything anyway but I do become aware that I am zooming through random thoughts and not any closer to falling asleep. Annoying.
I find I read a lot too, I also have the laptop on and if shes on chat to my friend in Australia. I have been known at times to break out the ironing board and do my ironing (Only when I am REALLY desperate mind) other times I just lay there and mind just goes round and round in circles. Mostly I end up with one line of a song stuck in my head that I cannot get rid of.
I mostly just lay in bed now, and wait to fall back asleep, and practice mindfulness. I've been sleeping much better, and mindfulness makes the time pass quickly until I fall back to sleep. Oh how I love it!
To pass time I watch tv, research, get on the internet, or try to keep my only friend up on the phone with me
I mainly am signed into msn and skype 24/7 and listen to music a lot. A lot of John Prine, I also try to deal with my chronic back and leg pain which is one of the main reasons for my chronic insomnia.
I also make films with a friend and spend a lot of time saving photos of creepy artwork and creepy pictures, pictures of things like what I find creepy or un nerving to me.
Also pictures of giant creatures like the kraken or lots of sea creatures in mythology. As well as high res pictures and wallpapers that I like and are odd. I also save creepy videos of scary or un nerving and weird stuff on youtube in a playlist I have.
I am very into the horror genre of stuff and not like Saw or stuff. That's just torture porn. I am more into found footage and un nerving stuff that has a good atmosphere and creepy noises(not loud jumps or screams)
'IvanAleisterMesniaa' wrote on '28:I mainly am signed into msn and skype 24/7 and listen to music a lot. A lot of John Prine, I also try to deal with my chronic back and leg pain which is one of the main reasons for my chronic insomnia.
I also make films with a friend and spend a lot of time saving photos of creepy artwork and creepy pictures, pictures of things like what I find creepy or un nerving to me.
Also pictures of giant creatures like the kraken or lots of sea creatures in mythology. As well as high res pictures and wallpapers that I like and are odd. I also save creepy videos of scary or un nerving and weird stuff on youtube in a playlist I have.
I am very into the horror genre of stuff and not like Saw or stuff. That's just torture porn. I am more into found footage and un nerving stuff that has a good atmosphere and creepy noises(not loud jumps or screams)
Haha that freaks me out. I can't handle that stuff. But part of that is because I have super huge anxiety. I think that stuff would keep me up all night worrying. I'm to the point where I just get up for a half hour and surf the web, sometimes take a tiny 1/4 or 1/8 piece of ambien if I'm too worried about stuff, and then I usually get back to sleep. I play solitaire until I'm really bored. That makes me so tired that sleep seems like a good idea.
'Martin' wrote on '13:Thanks for posting the link – I'm going to take a look!
Many of our members write when they suffer with insomnia – some get stuck into novels (one member just signed a publishing deal but recently went AWOL!).
I guess writing in itself is a good outlet and a distraction that isn't strenuous so there's still a chance for sleep to find us.
It would be interesting to hear from other members to see how they pass the time during bad bouts of sleeplessness. Hopefully we'll see some more contributions to this thread.
I fall in line with this member type; when I can't sleep, I often sit down and get some writing down. It's nice because while it burns up creative energy, it also gets my mind of stressors and habitual clock-chequing. Also, because I use a laptop, I can easily sit in bed with my writing; this way, if I notice myself nodding off, I can close it and just lie right down as not to miss the chance to sleep. I know this also may complicate things, what with having a potential distraction in my bed, but I admittedly feel at ease with my laptop always nearby. That is, if I think of something and don't want to lose the idea- I can open the laptop and type it down- and then close it to return to later.
Other than writing, I pass the time reading blogs or updating my own. Or, if I'm really desperate, I watch something online, like an old television show. I say old because there's never pressure to see “new episodes” and they're never in my way (via commercials or media hype; I can always take a break and go back without missing anything. The original Star Trek and Golden Girls are my particular favorites.
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