at what point in your insomnia do you give up and decide to remain awake?

actually im p. sure time counting is the worst thing you can do. you really need to stay away from clocks so youre never quite sure how much sleep you are getting/got.

i gave up at around 4 am, got out of bed & turned on the lights. my closet is now SUPER ORGANIZED. Of course, I thought I should close my eyes for an hour or so at 6 am and so woke up at 10:30.

We get a week off for Xmas -- I'm going to use this opportunity to try an experiment. A coworker mentioned that someone she knew who went to a sleep therapist counseled her to sleep later and later every day, until her schedule righted itself. I only have to make it one more night and get to work at a reasonable hour tomorrow...

If I've only got a 2-hour window to sleep, I find it's no longer worth it - I'll just have a hell of a time getting up and probably forget to do important shit.

omg. i just found this and made a self-diagnosis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_sleep_phase_syndrome

(hard at work, here)

It's always a bad sign if I'm up this late and start watching a terrible movie on cable.

That article on DSPS is interesting, but really, the condition could be used to describe dozens of potheads without regular jobs etc. Seems the big test for diagnosis would be monitoring the time of the body temperature drop. Definitely have woken a number of times in cold sweats in the middle of the nightfor no apparent reason, I wonder if that could be anything associated. Writing this at 6.20 in the morning after failing to sleep in the period 2.30 - 5am…

o hey it's 5:30am and i'm not tired. delayed sleep phase syndrome sounds plausible, though there is my pothead-esque lack of regular schedule. though i do find that if i fall asleep early enough (before midnight, say) my body fails to recognise that it's supposed to be more than a nap - i'll always find myself awake at 2 or 3 and unable to get back to sleep until the usual sunrise bedtime.

yeah, when reading the article half of me was like 'THIS IS ME' and half of me was like, I just need to get it together.

this sleep chronotherapy thing i'm doing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_phase_chronotherapy) is harder than I thought. I thought my body would naturally take to the idea of sleeping later & later every day, but it seems that this is not the case. We'll see...

yo, what's up?

worst part of insomnia, hitting refresh over and over on a 2 am ile

it's 1:30 in the afternoon here but i've been there, big fella