Hypno's "me, me, me, me, me," diary.....

gallygirl

Hypno, have you tried your own downloads or do they not work for you?

hypno06

I don't like the sound of my own voice, gallygirl.......although I am sure plenty would disagree with that and say I love the sound of my own voice :rotfl:

I do use some of the techniques though - and they help me get off to sleep when I first go to bed......but when I wake in the night, it seems that nothing will get me back to sleep until my brain decides the time is right, a couple of hours later!

missymoo81

hey hypno, sorry about your sleep patterns being skewif, I used to do that constantly, waking up at 3 and falling asleep at 5 only to have the alarm go off at 6, it was always when I had too much on my mind.

Copious amounts of alcohol helped, although the groggy mornings weren't worth it :rolleyes: A long hot bath helped if I could stay in it long enough to relax and not get bored, that's all the advice I can give I'm afraid.

You have my sympathy hun. (hugs)

And Macgirl hypno will start running soon, she has to shes my motivation to start!!!

pania

hi hon, sympathies with the sleep issue. I am exactly the same, seems to be exactly the same time every night too. I share your frustration, people have endless methods to get to sleep but sadly nowt can prevent us waking up again!!!

bad news on the run, runclub went out on the ice and snow the other day, have to say though that I wouldn't fancy it again so you really are best off waiting! it'll come soon enough. xxx

hypno06

I'm just making feeble excuses really, P :rotfl:

pania

well in that case woman gt off yer butt!! :rotfl:

EssexHebridean

No point in chancing running while it's still so slippy out Hypno - you'd curse if you did and ended up going A over T and damaging yourself. That's really carp about the sleep thing - thankfully I usually drop off quickly and stay asleep but I do sometimes get patches when my sleep gets disturbed and it's so horrible. You really do have my sympathy.

LouiseJ

I'm just wondering if anything physical is triggering you to wake up? Do you wake for the loo or maybe feeling cold?

I know that I would wake up for the loo at almost the same time every night and struggled to get back to sleep, mind jumping straight back into action the second my eyes open. I stopped drinking anything past 9pm and this seemed to help.

Just a thought.

savingholmes

If I can't sleep for longer than 30 minutes to 1 hour I will get back up and start doing jobs around the house, surf mse or just try and get some kip on the couch. Sometimes just changing the routine helps....

Verbatim

I use specific scenarios to get back to sleep.

Could be a fantasy situation or a memory of a good place/time. It doesn't work if I get too involved in the storyline though so I try to stick to tried and tested (therefore boring?) situations which seem to work best.

The worst time for not being able to sleep was in my early forties when I would wake and re-evaluate my life. Perhaps it was my mid life crisis? So nothing helpful to offer but perhaps not to worry as that would make it worse.