When you can't sleepFollow

The third option seems the most useful, just keep going until you're too tired to stay awake.

I watch tv and play some vidya games.

yup can do that and guzzle a beer and im out like a light

Not sleeping at night is quite normal for those of us who aren't dirty daywalkers. That said, if I can't sleep during the day, I get up for a while and do something that allows me to kill a bit of time without really engaging my brain. Random Youtube videos, for instance.

Touching yourself can be done productively and also while you're refusing to believe you're not sleeping. So the first three choices aren't exclusive.

I suffer from insomnia very rarely and always it's been when something very weighty was on my mind.

Anything bugging you?






Edited, Mar 20th 2014 8:26pm by Elinda

Start the Fight Club.

1st rule of fight club....

This hardly happens to many any more. Working all day, staying standing for almost a good 7 hours... I car pool to work and sometimes fall a sleep coming home. I'm just beat. Like right now, I hurt and could probably go to bed now (not even 7pm) and sleep til my alarm goes off.
Maybe you are not doing enough during the day?

Last night, I continued my habit of laying in bed and pretending it's not happening.



Work. That's mostly it. Been having really bad anxiety issues from it, and now it's keeping me from sleeping.

Which was really bad, but now it's working in my favor. I'm SO overtired that nothing's getting to me. I had a meeting with my boss and no panic attack! I guess my developing insomnia might actually help me. (Note: I am something of a self-destructive person).

Thanks for asking.



Definitely not. Up between 5 and 5:30, get to work between 7:30 and 8, leave it between 4 and 4:30, home 5:30-6. Then I work out and make dinner, which brings me to about 8. Not much time left in the day, after that.

I suffer from insomnia and usually only sleep 3-4hrs a day and most of that is interrupted sleep. I get tired of trying to sleep, if that makes any sense, so usually I am up on the computer or cleaning the house in the middle of the day when I should really be asleep. I work midnight to 8am, go work out, come home and make a snack, run errands, etc... and usually sleep from noon-6pm with several bouts of waking in between. My doctor prescribed several different sleep aids(not all at the same time) but evidently I am very sensitive to them because they knock me out for 10-12hrs at a time. I have melatonin that I take on occasion and that seems to work okay but I am hesitant about taking it all the time because I've heard your body can stop producing it's own if you take it for long term.

You're posting on Zam in your sleep! You're trapped in a nightmarish cycle of posting in OOT and can't escape!

Ambien is the sleep med that sent me into that waking dreamstate in the hospital.

What the @#%^ is in that stuff?

edit: waking, not walking.

Edited, Mar 22nd 2014 11:41am by idiggory

I've woken up in the front seat of my car with the keys in the ignition before. The car wasn't running so I don't know if I went anywhere. The SO started hiding the keys after that. I looked through the news for days after that for anything weird that happened that night but nothing ever came up and there was no damage to the car. Have you ever been so scared you broke out in a cold sweat and your body tingled? Yeah, I was that scared.
I've also set a kettle on to make tea and went back to bed with the stove on. I've never cooked anything though.


Edited, Mar 22nd 2014 7:15pm by Delva