My Battle With Insomnia: How Roxanne Pallett Didn't Sleep for Three Days

Mirror ^ | 24 Apr 2012 | Olivia Buxton

[Paved Paradise]

She answered her own question. She doesn’t have a “regular” schedule. I think in some ways the busyness of our modern lives contributes to the inability to fall asleep. Also, I know from personal experience - and research - that being on the computer within an hour of going to bed can be like drinking a couple of cups of coffee, due to the light from computers being in the blue spectrum.

[dfwgator]

Just put on one of Obama’s speeches, that will solve that problem.

[oh8eleven]

Didn't Sleep for Three Days
Boo-fricken-hoo. I was in VN ... didn't sleep for 13 months.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I’m a lot worse than she is! Add somnambulism to my problems! Thought I’d outgrown it, until I got on Ambien. Totally came back with a vengeance! Almost burnt my house down one night. If you’ve ever, in your life, had a problem with somnambulism, do not take Ambien.!

[doc1019]

ROFLMAO! Amen to that.

[Dick Vomer]

get a physics book and start doing the problems at the end of the chapter..... or listen to TOFUS speak...or any democrat

[Tex-Con-Man]

Huckabee has a radio show...

[cripplecreek]

Insomnia can be a blessing if you learn to use it correctly.

[ItsOurTimeNow]

>>Generally I have about four hours sleep a night and at the most six. I don’t think I’ve ever had eight hours sleep in a night. It’s horrific.<<

Seriously? Who the hell gets 8 hours of sleep a night? I average 5 hrs a night...it’s called being an adult with kids - lol.

[Aurorales]

I am an insomniac. Couldn’t fall asleep as a child. My earliest memory is being awake when everyone else is asleep.

It was so bad at one time in my life...3 days no sleep...I had a full tonic clonic seizure. Dr.s ruled out everything else, it was caused by sleep deprivation.

I’m in my 40’s now. Insomnia is still with me. Sleeping pills only work for a while. At some point you have to wing it alone.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"due to the light from computers being in the blue spectrum."

I highly recommend amber-tinted computer-reading glasses, for anyone who uses screens a lot (regardless of the time). I have a pair similar to the ones shown below (except mine are Foster Grants) & I don't know how I ever got by without them. They cut glare, they cut way down on the blue-spectrum light, and they help you focus without squinting. Even people who don't need reading glasses will benefit from the tinting.

(Even if you have tinted glasses, your advice is still good. Screen viewing keeps the sand man away.)

[Aurorales]

By blessing do you mean you can get more work done?

[Lazamataz]

I haven’t slept since 1972.

[cripplecreek]

I get my best thinking done laying awake at night. Besides, fighting insomnia is a losing proposition. You’ll sleep a lot better if you don’t try.

[freedumb2003]

>>I get my best thinking done laying awake at night. Besides, fighting insomnia is a losing proposition. You’ll sleep a lot better if you don’t try.<<

I get pretty bad insomnia sometimes — same problem, the mind races and won’t SHUT UP! I have had the best success mentally replaying my favorite movies (such as Star Wars New Hope) — I have every moment of that movie memorized...

[chris37]

I remember back in the day when I was doing things I shouldn’t have done I didn’t sleep for three months, not one minute.

[Ellendra]

Normally I can never ever get to sleep before 1am, and sometimes it might even be 3am.

I was born with such severe insomnia that, until high school, I thought this was normal. The conventional advice for dealing with insomnia doesn't work so well when you're born with it. The best way I've found to deal with it is actually to read in bed, but make sure it's a boring book. How-to manuals or field guides work well for me. They're interesting enough to keep my mind from racing, but unadventurous enough to keep me from getting wound up. Somehow that combination seems to work, as long as my brain has something to distract it, it lets sleep come. I don't know if this would work for other born insomniacs. And yes, I'm well aware that it goes against the standard advice.

[cripplecreek]

I'm into science so I go off exploring exoplanets not yet discovered. I get into considerable detail over weeks and months of time. The next morning I jump on photoshop.

[nickcarraway]

You told me you slept with a lot of people?