The issue is that I can never get into any 'sleep' pattern as such because of work and you may be right, but I suspect it could be a bit of both as I've not noticed any issue outside the normal until the past couple of weeks.
Your shift patterns won’t be helping, but it sounds like you’re having 2 full sleep cycles (they last about an hour and a half) then you’re waking up. You won’t have been getting this quality of ‘proper’ sleep when you were effectively knocking yourself out with ale on a daily basis. Equally, you won’t have been as susceptible to light intrusion, and given you’re sleeping sometimes during the day, you defo need to invest in some blackout curtains or linings for your current ones imo.
Think he said he's got blackout blinds. The shift patterns are always going to play havoc with your body clock. There's no way around that really unless you just work regular daytime hours
Yep, went through a period like that, followed by a period when I slept for hours and hours. I felt permanently knackered for ages too. When you've spent years passing out pissed rather than sleeping normally, your mind and body is in for a period of adjustment. Nowadays I sleep like a baby, but rarely for more than 7 hours.
I’m normal, I drink, I get 8 hours without interruption with ease. It’s a surprise when I don’t. I can see the problem, giving up.
I'm an insomniac. Not alcohol related... I just don't sleep well... I frequently go three days without more than a few hours sleep. That was fine and didn't really impact me in my 20's... Not so much now. The only trick I've found is peeing. Seriously, I've found a good long piss often helps me fall asleep. Could be a coincidence, but I don't sleep if I don't have a good pee at night... Even if I don't feel like I need to go. Sometimes I drink (water) just so I can pee. Are you drinking enough now you're not drinking alcohol? Are you peeing enough? Just a suggestion, but you may want to leave your bed to pee... I'm not suggesting you piss the sheets.
Having suffered with mental health problems, my suggestion would be you move your clock (assuming you have one in the room). Some might laugh at that but it plays a big part in your psychological behaviour particularly in regards to sleep patterns. The reason i say that is you have stated what time you seem to think you have woken up. Your body clock conditions itself so you need to alter that pattern even if it's only in minor detail. This might sound crazy but bear with me...if you are a right handed person move the clock to the left hand side of the bed, so that when you wake, your brain takes a few moments to recognise it needs to turn to move to look at the time (or the opposite of whatever you would normally glance at the clock), place the clock in an awkward position, so you physically have to move rather than glance to see it. That stops any on/off waking patterns at intervals, and because you are sleepy your brain will actually think, fook it i can't be asked to move. You work nights?...is it perm nights or is it shifts?...don't need to answer just suggesting your body clock struggles with the time changes. I assume you don't go straight to bed, you need to leave an hour for your brain to unwind. They do suggest don't have caffeine but it's never been a problem for me. Alternatively it could be because you are just getting old mate, and your body is slowing down, so you need less sleep, try taking cat naps or what i call siesta's (if possible) an hour will be suffice, works a treat for me. As NSIS said, I think it's more the shift work than the booze.
Interesting read ta . I think TLL is only on his late 20's . Would age be a factor yet ? We are all different I suppose .
On a side note . I tried stopping the booze and failed . Now on a break in gran Canaria, alcohol everywhere. 2 things . 1 I have not even craved a drink of any alcohol description . 2 Is it possible this is the break in my home routine that I need? Will know when we go home I guess . Sorry for taking this a bit off track .
I've not really known situations as such for someone in their 20's re for age to be that factor but the rest of it still applies. I always remember it being said (don't know if it's true), someone like Maggie Thatcher (sorry politics) used to manage on just 4 hours sleep a night, only knows how! Might have been more. But generally in people your brain needs to cool (as i would term it) it's a bit like your computer overheating, this is where the good old siesta's come in, in the same way behind the reasoning for dreaming, it allows your brain to chuck out the garbage, the unwanted cookies, emptying the trash. If you don't you will eventually suffer from stress as well has the tiredness. It's worth noting there can always been other underlying medical issues (disclaimer).
Holiday is always good - Jet lag can cause a downer when home, but hols can sometimes be that miracle cure, as you say a change from routine
Yeah. Preparing for flooding. It was heading to the north of us until this am... Newer path is heading straight towards me. I'm far enough inland and it is moving slowly enough that it won't be a hurricane anymore when it reaches me, but this area is prone to flooding. I live on a hill so my house is probably safe but we still have dams and bridges down that were taken out by the major floods from 2 years ago. Kids have the week off school. School buses being used to evacuate people here from the coast and the schools are being used as shelters for those people. Last time we had the major floods I couldn't find a route across the river to get to work. All the bridges in town were underwater. I'm not expecting any serious personal damage or danger... Winds should have slowed when it reaches us and we're far from flood zones. If the "1000 year floods" two years ago didn't reach me, I dont think this one will.
A lot in this. I dont have a clock in my bedroom (besides my phone)... I don't look at my phone because I've read elsewhere that checking the time is a bad thing to do if trying to sleep because it can cause you to fret. If I turn my phone on at night it's because I've given up hope of sleeping. Some nights I just know I'm not going to sleep and end up giving up around 2am.
