Posted on 04/24/2012 3:18:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
How Roxanne Pallett Didn’t Sleep for Three Days
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oh poor little dear!
I went 2 solid weeks without a single minute of sleep when I had insomnia (before getting a prescription for pills), and the 3 months leading up to that I was getting 2 hours or less per night.
She said...
“I have been to various doctors about my chronic sleep pattern and they always ask if I am either stressed or depressed because those are two of the main causes of insomnia. But I’m neither!”
Then she says...
“I can lie awake for three or four hours at a time and my mind is racing.”
“When my best friend Pamela committed suicide back in December 2010, I was so grief-stricken, I didn’t sleep for days on end and I couldn’t continue with the pantomime that I was starring in.”
“Every night I would lie in bed replaying everything in my mind and wondering what more I could have done to help her. These torturous feelings kept me awake all day and all night.”
“But I’ll still lie in bed for hours worrying about not being able to fall asleep, which just makes the problem worse.”
“...I am learning martial arts after I was attacked on a train. It was a terrifying experience and that hasn’t helped my sleep either.”
And she’s not stressed?
One thing I do is pick a category (like “countries” or makers of products like beer, cars or types of plants, etc) and make myself go through the alphabet from A to Z, and if necessary do this several times. I think it really does help occupy my brain with nothing of significance until I finally fall asleep.
Every since I was a kid this has been true. I would need up to 11 hours a sleep until I was 18 but often stayed up until 5 AM watching shadows on the walls and making up stories in my head. Needless to say I am an artist and a productive business woman.
I’ve never had that...but...
I used to get caught in-between sleep and awake. I’d fall asleep with my eyes open. Then when I woke up, I couldn’t move. I could see, hear, and think (although the sounds were slightly muffled and the vision a little blurry) ok but I couldn’t move a muscle. It seemed like sometimes it would take an hour to wake up and sometimes I would drift back and forth from sleep to half-asleep for several hours. For the longest time I wondered if it was actually a dream.
Then one day I fell asleep on my back for just a couple minutes in a recliner with lots of people around. Then I woke up to the in-between state and I could hear and see everyone. They thought I was awake because my eyes were open. When they wondered if I was asleep(because I wouldn’t respond) they tried to wake me. Then decided I was faking it, or messing around with them. When I finally woke up 100% I told them everything they said and did and explained to them I couldn’t move. They said I described everything exactly how it happened so that was proof I wasn’t dreaming.
Yeah but aren’t you a leap year baby that sleeps with one eye open so that’s like only 10 years isn’t it ?.....:o)
Correct on that!
My job, before I retired, I could work 30 hours or better at a stretch and sometimes got by on 15 hours of sleep a week.
Once worked 18 hours a day for 3 months with a half hour travel time to and from work to boot, that was pushing it a little even for me.
Ain't the greatest way to live, but would leave people scratching their heads, LOL.
Did make for pretty big paychecks, however.
When I had to retire my sleep schedule derailed and is still wacky. I go for days with short naps and then crash for 18 or 20 hours.
Reduce the carbs and sleep will be enhanced
It can be that easy. I know for certain
i've had it most of my life and a sleep pattern/habit is very important indeed... i never change my sleep pattern with the time changes, in the fall when the clocks turn back i goto bed an hour earlier and get up an hour earlier in the morning till spring
for years four hours was the most, now i get ~six
and pills? feh... they don't do squat
Man! Been there, and done that forever! Sometimes I’m in REM, and awake at the same time. The dreams are superimposed over reality. That can be tough, cuz REM ain’t always very pleasant! I’ve had friends who call me after I’d gone to sleep. I’d answer the phone, and they were convinced I’d gone crazy! One night, sleepwalking, I put chicken in a frying pan, and settled down to watch tv. The tv wasn’t on, so I wonder what program I was watching! Didn’t wake up until I started choking on the smoke! Ambien. Had to re-do the whole first floor due to smoke damage!
Studies have shown nurses, cops, firefighters, etc. who work midnight to 8 AM shift can become mildly psychotic after a couple months. I know this to be a fact...
A few years ago I had trouble sleeping, working a few overnights a week with a growing family, didn’t help, plus a bout of anxiety and depression. It was not a good time, the lack of sleep increased my moodiness. I tried meditation and while some live classes were great relaxing meditations, I couldn’t find a cd with one that I liked. Then I tried listening to a cd of ocean waves at bed time. I did this consistently and after a while it started to help me drift off to sleep. Now several years later, all it takes is a few minutes of hearing my ocean cd and I am out like a light.
no doubt, swing shift is the absolute worst... a friend of mine did it for eleven years and i NEVER understood how he survived it
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