[michaelh120504]

I should clarify:

Huge amount of already existing anxiety and “internally generated ?” stress that I deal with on a daily basis <– I think I need to find some way to reduce this.

This has me constantly hyped up. Not sleeping for day/s makes me extremely sleepy at certain points – morning, afternoon, but I wake up again especially at night time and can go the whole night and well into the next morning. w/o getting sleepy.

Sleep doctors — most of all of them take weeks or months to schedule out and to do another appointment. What I understand is that they mostly focus on sleep apnea, etc and will just hand anyone sleeping pills ….

No one seems to exist for that 1 % that might have some other serious problem.

[michaelh120504]

Hello Martin:

I have been playing with “sleep when sleepy” and the end result was in that in 2 weeks, I did not sleep a majority of days or got some tiny bit of sleep. I was completely wired the whole night long. I could easily go 3 days no sleep and probably be wide awake through the third night. I didn’t quite push it there, but you get the point.

If I go two days with no sleep, I can get a very nice night of 5 hours of sleep 🙂

I found a good sleep psychologist who when I told him how little I was sleeping was suggesting various psychological things like maybe even something like bipolar disorder or depression.

I have some reason to believe there really are physical issues at play, brain, endocrine system, I don’t know. The level of “activation” and wiredness and anxiety that I experience day after day is extreme and persistent.

I am going to do a sleep study and rule out brain issues – this should not take too long to do.
Sleep doctors are hard to find – but from what I understand, they are kind of useless for a “mystery” problem.

If you really had the time to discuss in person, I wouldn’t mind that 🙂

Thanks,
Michael Hoffman

[michaelh120504]

Also, so your sleep buffer is about 1.5 hours ?

If you are very sleepy – which would be the case for some of us at the very end of the day, you can still meditate ? I would be tempted to meditate earlier.

[michaelh120504]

Hello Jim :

What kind of meditation exactly ?

Thanks

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