You know you have insomnia when…
You’re so sleep-deprived, you reach for the ginger chews, accidently open the cat treats, and can’t tell the difference.
You just said, “I don’t think what I’m knowing,” your husband is staring at you like you’re insane, and you don’t know why.
Meditation music won’t put you to sleep.
You’re beginning to believe it’s not insomnia, your brain is holding you hostage:
You begin to look like this guy:
you’d like to believe this is true (but after yesterday, you’re sure your brain was stolen and replaced by that of a comatose gerbil).
You’re beginning to wonder if the sheep are conspiring against you
You keep saying to yourself, “If I fall asleep now…” and you finally do. But there’s one teensy problem.
You awaken in the morning and the truth almost hits you
You say this mantra over and over, “I’m going to try to get some sleep,” and your brain is doing this:
OKAY. Enough! I’m going to try to sleep again!
Gosh sounds exactly like me also. At least I had a laugh about it. Thank you. Oh still trying to sleep and it’s 6.40am !
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Don’t know how much sleep I got — just that 2 alarms went off at the same time. One was ringing, the other was licking my face. 🙂
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I know that feeling….
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…and we brilliant people must stick together. If we can’t sleep, at least we can laugh. 🙂
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If we didn’t, we’d probably lose the plot altogether 😉
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LOL! We must never stop plotting. 🙂
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Good grief, no 😀
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I feel and share your pain
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Thanks for the support.
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Ok, I apologise in advance. 2 nights this week I got 6 hours of uninterrupted sleep! Is that what normal people get every night? OMG! I hate myself for being normal right now……………..are you dealing with regrets? Every decision you ever made was the right one at the time with what you knew. You did a great job and you are still here! Now, get a good nights sleep tonight. Cheers,H xx
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Don’t hate yourself — I’m cheering for you to continue getting almost normal sleep each night.
What keeps me up is that my body starts to fall asleep and — well — it’s like bouncing off a trampoline instead of touching onto the ground. There’s a barrier between wake and sleep. With enough distraction (aka meditation music), I can get there. But I’m usually awake 3 – 4 hours later and have to do the process all over again. If I get to sleep at 10, awake at 2 and asleep again at 4, it’s 7 hours sleep, but it feels like 2.
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What I don’t understand is why I think I am sleepy, and go to bed in the first place. Why not just stay awake forever, and double my output? Output of what is the question.
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I understand what you mean. There are times when I go to bed feeling as if I’m too sleepy to stay awake, and the minute my head hits the pillow my brain refuses to go to sleep. By the time I stop fighting the inevitable, my brain won’t do anything.
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I can relate
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It’s like being in a personal hell that everyone shares but no one experiences together.
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So perfect, especially since I spent last night doing all of that. Hope you get some sleep soon.Amanda
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Thanks. 🙂
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This…every. dang. night. I wanted to say a stronger word than dang, but I decided to keep a civil tongue!
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My filter would kick it out if you said anything stronger. 🙂
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