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

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

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

rayuela, Thursday, 22 December 2011 21:18 (twelve years ago) link

(hard at work, here)

rayuela, Thursday, 22 December 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link

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

Nicole, Thursday, 29 December 2011 05:12 (twelve years ago) link

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…

Banned socks (Osoby), Thursday, 29 December 2011 05:22 (twelve years ago) link

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.

m. yeux, Thursday, 29 December 2011 05:37 (twelve years ago) link

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...

rayuela, Thursday, 29 December 2011 07:49 (twelve years ago) link

yo, what's up?

Mordy, Saturday, 31 December 2011 05:12 (twelve years ago) link

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

dylannnnnnnnn, Saturday, 31 December 2011 05:29 (twelve years ago) link

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

dylannnnnnnnn, Saturday, 31 December 2011 05:30 (twelve years ago) link


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