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So, it's 1:30am and I'm still up (but snuggled in bed now).
I've had to work this evening and last, which was ironic, because they were the first two nights for ages, that I've actually been dozing off in the evening…
I am SO curious to see how tomorrow morning at 6am will go… I wonder if I'll be semi-conscious? Will best friend remember to ring?
So do you get that “early morning insomnia”? (Cos as you might have guessed, I sure don't!!!)
Or do you actually sacrifice and hour of sleep that you could have for having your luxurious, slow start to the day?
Cos if I had morning insomnia, then I think sure, I'd make that awake time as nice as possible…
But for me it's weighing up 1 hour of DESPERATELY needed/ craved sleep VS a hot bath (or whatever else) that I could just as easily have any other time I pleased… (You can see where I'm heading with that line of argument, can't you, haha)
Either way, my intention is to get up at 6am so I can see what happens with my sleeping pattern as a result.
Well, I'm going to read a bit in a book that arrived from Amazon today and hopefully I'll fall asleep over that…
Pretty-sleep-deprived-but-still-functioning Groggy Gal
Whoohoo! Thanks for the applause!! (She bows…)
It's just gone 5pm here and the pooch just got picked up by her owner, I have to go into town for a work meeting in half an hour – and then I've made it through the day!! Without any NAP MISHAPS!!
Thank you so much for the support!!
Hey I was just thinking – maybe we should expand our Etsy thing to a wake up service just for insomniacs… a personalised one that talks to you gently but insistently (for a max of 10 mins) until you have gotten OUT of bed and are in your kitchen and putting the kettle on….
Cos this morning I found the hardest part was not “gaining consciousness” but making the transition from horzitontal to vertical….
Hm, anyway… What's a bit daunting is that I have to repeat today's miraculous combination of “early rising and no naps” again tomorrow – and on the day after tomorrow and on the day after that…. Gaah! I mean, I would hate to think I was letting the side down by not following through… but it seems so daunting – like yes, fair enough, as a “one-off” it can be done… but day after day?? Oh gosh! 😮
Well, in the assumption that it will get easier with time, I will take it one sleep-deprived day at a time… 😉
Hope you are well and looking forward to your day off tomorrow…!
Catch up with you later
Groggy
Right, gonna put a load of washing in the machine and then take a bath after all… So I will be off-line for a bit… But will check in again soon!
XXX
Groggy (by name and by nature)
Well, I am set to go jogging with a friend at 1pm, so 6 hours to keep myself “UP” for in the meantime…
I've had a coffee, checked on pets…
Get I will take Poochy out for a walk around the block once I'm dressed…
Not sure what else to get up to tho….
Guess I could take a bath….. But not feeling very convinced about it at the moment…. Hmmm
My brain is still on LUXURY=BED mode…
I will try doing my “hourly anti-nap” day plan and see…
The alarm went off at 6am and I was actually concious, tho couldn't motivate myself to get up and start the day, so thank goodness best friend called and verbally kicked my sorry arse out of bed….
Went into the kitchen and skyped for a bit and now I've let her go and prepare her garage sale, before they move house….
So, I dunno what to do now, to stay awake…
Guess I will have a quick check in with the pets to see how they are doing and be back in a sec….
Aw, poor Tired Teddy…
Let's start a campaign to ban all alarm clocks… I am not on speaking terms with mine either…
Slept in AGAIN today, but thanks to boyfriend calling me, only til 9:40am.
So I'm SLOWLY nearing the 6am mark… haha!
I'm still trying tho!!
Due to unforntunate sleep-in debacle, had no time for dancing today… waaahhhh…
Hey wow to you being an ice dancer and representing your country – my goodness!!
Yes well, I will see how I go on the morning-luxury front…
Unfort. I have to do a pile of work today still, so no time to chat right now… Must get busy! 😮
But plenty of time to talk to you in the wee hours, I'm sure…. :huh:
Ach, Teddy, you're a riot!
Nah, I'm up too… I thought you must be fast asleep too! 😉
I'm semi-delirious tired tho – can't write much that would make sense…
Tried getting my best friend who lives in another time-zone to call me up at 6am my time… which would normally be fine, but she's moving house and they've packed away the phone! Bloody heck!
But I will get there… I am now thinking of starting my mornings with a BATH – trying to copy some of your “luxury” ideas…! At least I might do that for as long as the early rising seems such cruel and unusual punnishment… (the bath I mean). I am yet to come up with any other “luxury” ideas that I think will go down well with raving-loony-coma-patient-Groggy-Gal-at-6-am….
Actually, I'm thinking of incorporating some DANCING! How's that for waking a girl up? I just need something TOTALLY electrifying – you know, where you can't keep your bones or your booty still…. where you just GOT to dance…! Just not sure I have enough CDs with that kind of music… I will have to improvise a bit, maybe…
Talk to you tomorrow, Tired T!
XXX Dancing-Groggy-Gal
Well, WHOOPS!!!!
Day 1 of my experiment is going in true Groggy Gal style….
Fell asleep at 5am with alarm clocks going off at 6.
My brain was SO confused – couldn't work out what the noise was, then figured out it was objects in the bedroom making the noise (2 alarm clocks & 2 phones) and started “touching” every object in the bedroom in an attempt to make everything stop making noise… 😮
Pooch was not impressed (about all the noise) and looking at me with her “eyebrows” raised….
Now we've kind of tried to stay awake but kept dropping off in between and just got up at noon to let her have a pee in the garden….
Well, I am deciding not to be frustrated or embarassed about this (progress, huh?!) but to tell myself that my brain and body will learn to adapt to my new schedule soon.
Sorry I wasn't there to say hello this morning 🙁
Hey there…
Ah, you're such a sweetie – your posts are always cheering me up…
Yes, I know the “insomnia high” too – the heightened concentration… I've had it happen with exams often – that I've not been able to fall asleep the night before and then written a much better exam than I would've expected cos my brain was on that no-sleep-high… Not sure what it is tho, medically speaking…?
Well, it looks like I am on an all-nighter… At least the pooch is slumbering deeply, dreaming away, her paws twitching/ running in her sleep…
I am kind of excited to test this get up at 6am every day (including Sundays) and NO naps… I know I should've done this YEARS ago, but yeah, never found the time/ patience/ strength to try it. Hope I'm still excited 3 or 4 days down the track… haha… Lord, my poor boyfriend – how is he going to cope with probably mega-grumpy me?? Or maybe I'll become really docile, haha… like I do on long-haul flights, where I can't sleep either and I am sooo polite to the stewardesses and am SOOO grateful for a glass of water or tomato juice… pffft! ^_^
Gah – you're going to get an entertaining bunch of posts to read too, over the next few days and weeks then!! You can watch my slow but steady decline into insomnia insanity… 😮
Right, I should switch this laptop off and “rest” for a bit.
See you at 6am then… tho I think you're an hour behind me… (me: Berlin/ you: UK)
Wishing us both peace – with or without sleep
XXX
Groggy
Hm, okay, so from what I can tell it's worth me trying the following: getting up at 6am every day and not doing ANY daytime napping for 3-4 weeks and to see if that changes the time when my brain falls asleep at night. If it does adapt, then it's not that Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder (well, as far as I understand what I've read).
I'm (once again!) a bit embarassed to say this, but I've never made the concious effort to do that…
I mean sure, for school and previous jobs, I've had to get up that early, but would often nap or catch up massively on sleep on the weekend etc…
Since I've always been “on my own” with my insomnia so far, I've never had the strength to face 3-4 weeks of chronic medium-grade sleep deprivation… and to find the discipline to stick it through, even on weekends etc, and never to cheat by “accidentally” sleeping in…
So I guess that would be the most sensible approach? To try sticking to such a sleep schedule, while I wait for my Dr's appt….
Oh Lord. That means setting my alarm clock to 6am – waaaaaah 😮
Well, I guess if I've gotten thru so many years of insomnia so far, another 3-4 weeks of even more sleep-deprivation isn't going to kill me…
Right. Well, I will report how I go…
XXX
Groggy
Hm, yeah, kind of a relief, I guess…
Like it says in the link, I've tried pretty much “everything” from meditation to sleep deprivation to sleeping tablets to sport to relaxation techniques to sleep hygiene to sleeping on the sofa, etc etc, since I was 7 years old – all without success.
So yeah, in theory it would be kind of good to know “this is the cause”…
On the other hand, I guess I'd been hoping that I will find a “miracle cure” at some point and put it all behind me (unrealistic really, I know)… So if it was that, errr… that then sort of rules out a miracle cure…
So yeah, I dunno what to think of it really. No point in trying to guess anyway, as I think the different kinds of insomnia, with their different causes, effects and treatments sound pretty complicated and I would probably just get myself muddled.
I feel odd now tho – having seen Dr's about this issue for 20 years that not one Dr has suggested this…! (Tho the link did explain that most Dr's truly don't know much more about insomnia than the average lay-person…)
A similar thing happened with my menstrual migraines – I have been to so many Gyns over the years due to having moved cities/ countries several times – and never did one of them even suggest that my extreme period pain could have to do with menstrual migraines…
Makes you wonder what the point is of going to see Dr's at all, really!!!
Ach, I dunno. I guess I'm not fully in tune with the idea yet that this is MY insomnia, so I need to be proactive in managing it, cos no one else is gonna make it go away. I guess in part I still wish that it would “just go away” on its own… (Me being lazy, I guess…)
So is your insomnia “just” from having bladder/ bowel issues from the entrapped ovary (dunno if you have pain from it too?) ? Or is there also a hormonal menopawsal element to your insomnia?
Have your Dr's made any suggestions as to treatment of the entrapped ovary? Can they do surgery, for example, to untrap it? Or are you supposed to put up with it/ get used to it? And have they made any suggestions of how to treat the insomnia that's connected with it?
Hm, well I don't see my Dr til the end of the month and he's pretty good, so he'll probably say “that is a distinct possibility” and set me up with an appointment for a sleep clinic. I dunno how long the waiting list for an appt will be – so there's not really going to be anything to “report back” with for quite a while I guess….
I guess I'll have another look at the link tomorrow, when I've had a night to sleep over it (or not to sleep over it, as the case may be, haha) and try and see what my gut instinct tells me… There are a few things that “click into place” when I read it… but who knows…
Sleep tight, in case you're off to bed!
I might post again later, cos I'm not particularly sleepy yet…
Sweet dreams,
Groggy
Hm, Teddy, this sounds like me:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_disorder
I will have to ask my Dr when I see him next.
Hey Teddy,
well, I did end up dozing off for a short nap – honestly can't say for how long – I think between half and hour and an hour? Pooch and I have just come back from a 2 hour walk, and exercise is good for insomnia, so that's cool.
It's funny – the dog is jet black and seeing as it was getting quite dark, I could only see her LED glow-in-the dark collar zooming and bobbing about in the shrubbery…
We are now snuggly and curled up on the sofa. Pooch is under her blanket – that's the other thing she adores, next to cuddles, is blankets of all shapes and sizes to snuggle under… the little cutie…
Not much else to tell, really. I am making a little progress on the “fighting tiredness during the day” front…. even when a crippling wave of tiredness hits me, I'm now learning to “push through” it, without feeling like that's a form of torture and feeling I should call the UN Human Rights Commissioner…
Babysteps…
Enjoy your meal!!
Groggy Gal
Hey Teddy,
I love how you start your day in a luxurious manner.
I've planned to do that too, countless times, but can never think of anything as luxurious as staying under the covers, in bed, until the last possible moment… (and then doing everything else in a big rush) – drat!
Well, as it turns out, pooches are not an insomnia-cure! Who would've guess, huh?? 😮
I was up til 5am again and woke up at 9am. So far I've been able to avoid napping. I'm taking an hour's break now, smooching with the canine on the sofa, and then we'll go for a long walk… (this is the theory – hope I'll be able to put it into practice, without any major glitches!)
Hope you had a good day starting the week at work. When do you hear back about that stupid assessment?
Wah, can't write more now, brain is requesting I shut my eyes and rest a bit… (hope that's not a nap sneaking up on me!!)
XXX Groggy
