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Post by jeremysgirl on Feb 26, 2021 17:58:38 GMT
Reading these posts makes me very glad I am a unicorn apparently and sleep soundly through the night, damn near every night. I always feel "off" mentally when I have a bad night's sleep so I'm glad it is rare. I have an entire wind down, sleep ritual and I practice it every single night. And I sleep hard. I have a lot of weird dreams too. But I seriously have a hard time functioning if I don't get 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep a night.
ETA: And my family likes to make jokes about how lazy I am because I protect my 8 hours of sleep. It's so vital to me, I'm known to leave a party first just because it's my bedtime. They have great fun making fun of me about it.
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Post by Delta Dawn on Feb 26, 2021 18:00:40 GMT
Last night yes. Every other night? Never ever!
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Post by mollycoddle on Feb 26, 2021 18:01:36 GMT
No. I typically wake up at 3 or 4. But I have gotten better at falling back to sleep.
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Post by Fidget on Feb 26, 2021 18:10:58 GMT
I always wondered if it was just me - I guess I'm not alone. I never sleep through the night, haven't since I was a teen. I wake up multiple times every night. I play a game now - can I guess what time it is? I'm usually within 10 minutes! I typically wake up around 11:30, again around 1:00 or so, then approx 3 ish - my alarm goes off at 5:30. Some nights I wake up almost every hour.
If I drink enough wine I only wake up once or twice for the bathroom, but I'm still tired the next day from all the wine.
I tried using melatonin (time released capsules) I only woke up once but I was very groggy and cranky the next day, I seriously couldn't stand myself, I'd rather be tired than to feel like that.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2021 18:13:44 GMT
Usually. DH wakes up a lot. With our previous mattress, I woke up every time he got up or moved. We got a new mattress, super firm memory foam and I rarely wake up when he tosses and turns unless he tries to take the blankets with him. Now I sleep pretty solidly from around midnight to 6:30 am. It's the falling asleep I have a problem with.
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Post by piebaker on Feb 26, 2021 18:24:38 GMT
During perimenopause, I was up several times a night, every night.
After menopause, I can sleep through the night again.
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Post by DEX on Feb 26, 2021 18:27:29 GMT
I do take sleep medication and generally sleep through the night. Right now, my foster kitty (which we will keep) is recovering from her lady bits surgery and wakes me up multiple times every night. Last night it was 3:00 a.m. with her being super agitated and restless. I finally gave her some pain medication and that helped calm her down. The previous night, which was after her surgery, she was restless all night and I finally gave her pain medication at 6:00 a.m. Of course, during the day she is the princess who sleeps all day. When I am reincarnated, I want to come back as my cat!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2021 18:47:09 GMT
Yes, like a log. I fall asleep quickly and stay that way till around 8-8.30 the next morning.
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Post by kibblesandbits on Feb 26, 2021 18:56:02 GMT
Never. Never ever. I'm so exhausted.
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Post by MaryMary on Feb 26, 2021 19:26:50 GMT
No, and it gets worse the older I get. I fall asleep almost immediately but can't stay asleep for more than a couple hours. I wake up multiple times each night and feel exhausted all day long.
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Post by slicksister on Feb 26, 2021 19:43:47 GMT
No, not for years and years.
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Post by bc2ca on Feb 26, 2021 19:49:41 GMT
I was always a sound sleeper. So much that when I was pregnant with DD, I talked to my doctor about my concern I wouldn't hear her in the night. Once she started sleeping through the night at 2 months, I was back to 7-8 hours solid sleep. Menopause changed it all for me and my sleep is erratic now. I'm up at least once a night and consider it a good night if I get a solid 4 hour chunk and then another 2-3 hours. A bad night is if I'm wide awake for 1+ hours/
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Feb 26, 2021 19:54:28 GMT
Same as you, OP. I slept well until peri-menopause began in 2017 and I have slept through the night about 3 times since. That was when I had sleeping tablets.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Feb 26, 2021 19:57:06 GMT
nope. I typically do NOT sleep thru the night. I have a teeny bladder, and I've had cats for more than 25 years now... my hearing is hyper-attuned to pick up any unusual noises in the house, because I'm never sure what they're into or knocking over.
I usually don't have problems getting back to sleep though, thankfully. (except for the week or so before a full moon... during those few days, I have a really tough time getting to sleep initially.)
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 26, 2021 19:59:36 GMT
I can’t remember the last time I was able to sleep 8 hours straight. Between allergies, aches and pains, being a worry wart about things I have no control over as well as those things I do have some control over, being too hot and then immediately too cold, needing to pee, dogs that have to go out or want food, ugh, it sucks. And the absolute worst part is that once I do finally hit a sleeping stride (usually about 6:30-6:45 am) where I’m in that perfect Goldilocks state of just right comfort in my bed and the right temperature, that’s usually when I have to get up for some stupid reason or another. Not getting proper rest really wreaks havoc on the whole rest of the next day and it snowballs when it happens day after day after day.
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Post by dewryce on Feb 26, 2021 20:02:01 GMT
Nope. Between insomnia, sleep apnea, getting up to pee, constant pain and a mind that won’t shut up the idea is just a pipe dream.
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on Feb 26, 2021 20:24:07 GMT
I guess we are mostly all in the same boat.
I used to be the best sleeper but, a couple years ago I started waking up most nights at 4am and am awake for at least an hour. I call myself the nomad sleeper because I start in the bedroom and never know where I will end up! It could be the couch, the guest room, etc. It does suck.
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Post by Neisey on Feb 26, 2021 20:26:20 GMT
To elaborate...probably since my first pregnancy 22 years ago. I fall asleep easily, usually between 11 and 12, I’ll get tired reading, put my kobo away and drift off in seconds. Then I am restless and waking dozens of times each night. I must get some decent sleep because I dream vividly and can recall minute details after waking...The other night my family and I were in Sri Lanka getting ready to go on a midnight goat tour, yes Goat, whatever that is LOL, when smoke started to fill the hotel lobby… I could continue but you get the point. I’ve tried melatonin and it doesn’t do anything. I can take an over-the-counter sleep aid and it will make me tired earlier but it doesn’t make the quality any better. I don’t wake because I have to go to the washroom. I bought a new mattress, a new pillow top mattress pad, dozens of combinations of coverings and pillows. I read with a kobo so it’s not a tablet screen that is known to interfere with sleep, etc. And now, hot flashes! No explanation needed. My alarm is set for 7:45 so I SHOULD be able to get a good 7.5-8 hours sleep. I just trudge through the day.
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Post by SockMonkey on Feb 26, 2021 20:27:08 GMT
I used to. I haven't slept all the way through the night in about a year. Since this all started.
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Post by jlynnbarth on Feb 26, 2021 20:35:55 GMT
Once I can fall asleep, I sleep through to my alarm.
I have Revenge Bedtime Procrastination. It started early in my marriage/as a young Mom. I never had any alone time during the day. I got up with the kids, did all the things you do in the mornings, then I worked all day, got home and did all the "family" things. DH loves to talk (and talk and talk and talk) until he' was ready for bed, which was around 10:00. I needed a couple hours of "alone time" to watch what I wanted, eat something that was just mine, read uninterrupted, etc.... That would only happen after everyone was in bed, so I began staying up late to get that time that I mentally needed. Sleep was not the same as my "alone" time. Of course as the kids got older, that time became later and later.
The kids have been gone for years now, dh (who still continually talks while he's awake) now goes to bed between 9-9:30 every week night. You would think that I would get enough alone time from say 9:30-11:30 but nope. My body now will not be ready for bed until at least 12:00 am. Once I'm in bed, I have to read for at least a few minutes until my eyes get tired. This can be bad if the book is good. LOL My alarm goes off at 6:30 am. So usually I get 5-6 hours of sleep a night during the week. On the weekends when I don't have to get up, (but dh stays up later, so I stay up later) I can get a good 6-8 hours before my bladder says I need to get up.
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Post by scorpeao on Feb 26, 2021 20:43:17 GMT
Nope and I haven't in over a decade. I miss those days when I'd go to bed and wake up in the morning. Now I consider it a good night if I only awaken once.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2021 20:50:00 GMT
Lately, I’ve been waking up at least two to three times a night due to hot flashes and DH leaving for work. I can’t recall the last time I’ve slept 7-8 hours straight without waking up at least once. Do you sleep through the night? Ugh--do you have to get up and get changed?? I used to set out 4 sets of clean pajamas and underwear for me because I'd sweat right thru them! I had a towel on my bed too. Then you clean up and get changed and get that freezing chill.
Are you able to fall back to sleep?? I went back on Ambien. Even with that, I still wake up but I fall right back to sleep. It is great, short-term..........
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Post by peabrain on Feb 26, 2021 21:01:29 GMT
No but my sleep mask helps some
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Feb 26, 2021 21:10:41 GMT
No. I can't even remember the last time I slept 8 hours in a row.
Usually it is because there are not enough hours between the time I can reasonably go to sleep, and when I need to get up to get to work (still middle of the night).
Even when I don't have to leave the house, I wake up to a family member who needs me for whatever reason. Or a siren. Or car radios blasting. Or gunshots. Or people screaming outside. Or raccoons and possums making whatever noise it is that they make.
I very much look forward to the night that I can just sleep, uninterrupted.
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Post by janeinbama on Feb 26, 2021 21:15:03 GMT
Ditto. I wish I could though
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2021 21:40:06 GMT
Lately, I’ve been waking up at least two to three times a night due to hot flashes and DH leaving for work. I can’t recall the last time I’ve slept 7-8 hours straight without waking up at least once. Do you sleep through the night? Ugh--do you have to get up and get changed?? I used to set out 4 sets of clean pajamas and underwear for me because I'd sweat right thru them! I had a towel on my bed too. Then you clean up and get changed and get that freezing chill.
Are you able to fall back to sleep?? I went back on Ambien. Even with that, I still wake up but I fall right back to sleep. It is great, short-term..........
Thankfully I haven’t, but in the past I’ve had to change my tops because they were soaking wet. Now I just wake up and it’s like an internal flame fires up and I start to get really hot. I usually hug our extra pillows which are cool and I transfer my heat onto those. Most times I can fall back asleep, but then I’ll have dreams that are so vivid that they exhaust me! It’s a no win!
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Post by ajsweetpea on Feb 26, 2021 21:57:30 GMT
It used to be rare for me to sleep through the night. Then I spent three years waking up multiple times per night with a child who was literally the worst sleeper on the planet and ended up in our bed, kicking me and hubby multiple times per night. (I probably deserved it though... I had other kids before who started sleeping through the night at 6 weeks old and 10 weeks old and seriously couldn’t understand other people who had kids who wouldn’t sleep through the night. I actually think I told someone they just needed to be “calm” and “positive” about sleep and their child would sleep through the night. Haha! Karma came around and kicked my butt and I realized it’s all just a matter of luck whether a kid sleeps or not.) After said child began sleeping through the night, my exhausted body happily slept through the night with no problem! However, now I must be caught up on sleep because I am back to waking up again multiple times per night.
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Post by Lexica on Feb 26, 2021 21:58:37 GMT
I cannot remember the last time I slept through the night like a normal person. I have terrible insomnia which makes it hard for me to even fall asleep. Some nights I sleep in 30 minute increments, interspersed with an hour or two of being awake. I will try to force myself to go back to sleep and if I do, it might be for another 30 minutes. I keep that up until daylight.
After numerous nights like this I finally hit the wall and sleep for 15 or 16 hours. I must wake up to pee during that long spell, but I don't remember it.
There have been days where I have tried to take a nap, laying down at say 10 or 11 a.m. I will wake up, glance at the clock and see it is 6:00. I notice the level of daylight coming in from the window and assume it is 6:00 in the evening of the day I napped because it is getting dark. Then I discover that it is the following morning and I had slept through most of a day and an entire night. It is just getting light, not dark. For whatever reason, my dog and cats do not wake me up to be fed. Or if they try, I'm not waking.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2021 22:03:05 GMT
Nope, wish I could though.
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Post by sasha on Feb 26, 2021 23:09:46 GMT
Never. I wake up at least 2-3 times a night. According to my watch, I am severely lacking in deep sleep.
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