When it comes to sleep, I am an under-served population representative. I need to be more empowered to power down. And more often.
(Meh buttons to click doesn’t help.)
@narfcake Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.
Joseph Wood Krutch
What if I’m a heavy sleeper and a late riser? How am I supposed to answer this?
If I were to describe it with my own words, I’d probably put “PM-shifted” even though I think that’s not my most significant issue. It’s just the quickest to describe.
Bad. I’m not good at sleeping, even though it’s my favorite thing to do. I have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, and waking up. The parts in between are good, though.
@ahacksaw
Back for me. Doesn’t your back hurt for sleeping on your stomach? I have been a little lately bc my shoulder and neck are killing me but then my back is hurting all day from it being arched.
@ahacksaw
I definitely agree with that. I started using a little room humidifier right next to my bed and I can tell the difference as when I use it and I don’t. I still blow my nose a bunch in the morning (I have horrible allergies) but I’m not as congested as when I don’t. It just comes out easier, if that makes sense.
Contrary to that post I am excellent at sleeping just about anywhere and anytime. Typically heavy sleeper and late riser. Also I sleep on my back only with my legs just slightly apart so my cat can sleep there every night, which leads me to my next sleep attribute: I don’t move AT ALL when I’m asleep…very corpselike.
If I get 4 hours a night I call it a win. If I get all the way to six hours I’m rejuvenated. I’m now normally getting up at or a little before 4AM. Tend to wake up some time between 1A and 3A. Brain seems to be an extrovert.
It’s a little weird when I get up. After my thing, when I get up it is like I’m a newborn. I try not to fall out of bed and then kind of shuffle to the bedroom door and grip the railing as I go down the stairs one at a time, slowly, with the dog anxiously awaiting my arrival (waggy tails are motivational). After an hour of ‘adjustment’ (and feeding the doggo) I could probably do some crunches… maybe a pushup or several. But every day seems like a reset. Maybe that’s why I get up so early… I like to feel normal when I take my kid to school at 6:15.
@chienfou Kiddo is 15 now. As soon as she can change a tire we are starting driving lessons. And by driving lessons I mean doing donuts in the church parking lot
@capnjb@chienfou Your church has doughnuts? Do they serve coffee, too?
If OTOH, you are speaking about driving in circles with an underage, non-licensed driver or one without a learner’s permit even, you’d better be careful, though, for according to the old trope, where there are doughnuts, there are police.
P.S. A donut is like a doughnut, but without the “ugh.”
From the sleep experts
Seriously? Why should we sleep in a cat bed when we have this?
Ying and yang bed buddies.
Who needs a blanket when we have each other?
THIS is a decent cat bed!
@Kidsandliz@Kyeh I think mine have the decency to wait till 5 but my sleep schedule has been off for ever. For unrelated issues. All I know is they are holy terrors in the morning. Holy terrors after work. During work there’s 8-9 in the bed on the desk with a rotating cast on top of me/the hutch/the keyboard behind the monitor. And in the couch after work.
Sleepy McSleepyhead.
Oh, I dunno, horizontal, immobile, not fully conscious, breathing loud…
How the fuck should I know? I’m asleep during the whole thing…
Reference:
https://meh.com/forum/topics/im-a-sleeper#6389887fc315e16b5a4334c2
When it comes to sleep, I am an under-served population representative. I need to be more empowered to power down. And more often.
(Meh buttons to click doesn’t help.)
I’m a night owl. I go to bed around 2 a.m. and get up around 9:30 a.m.
/showme what I look like sleeping
@mediocrebot you really need to take an anatomy class
/showme sleeping red dragon in a green forest in the style of joshua Reynolds
/showme sleeping vampire bats in a cave
@OldCatLady Ugh, are you trying to give us nightmares?
@Kyeh Sharing is good.
@OldCatLady Oh, no - please, really - I couldn’t; you’re too generous.
@Kyeh @OldCatLady Those bats look like slippers.
@Kyeh @OldCatLady @yakkoTDI That looks like Amy Poehler sleeping it off after a bar brawl.
@narfcake
Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are a subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who has suffered from insomnia.
Joseph Wood Krutch
If I get horizontal I promptly go to sleep…
@chienfou Going to sleep is not a problem - where I have trouble is staying asleep.
I am a heavy light sleeper.
What if I’m a heavy sleeper and a late riser? How am I supposed to answer this?
If I were to describe it with my own words, I’d probably put “PM-shifted” even though I think that’s not my most significant issue. It’s just the quickest to describe.
Deprived
Bad. I’m not good at sleeping, even though it’s my favorite thing to do. I have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, and waking up. The parts in between are good, though.
@ahacksaw
That’s my sleep pattern to a tee. Expect when I do sleep, I don’t move at all either.
@Star2236 I don’t move either! I’m a stomach sleeper, and once I’m comfortable, I stay still.
@ahacksaw
Back for me. Doesn’t your back hurt for sleeping on your stomach? I have been a little lately bc my shoulder and neck are killing me but then my back is hurting all day from it being arched.
@Star2236 Strangely enough, I’ve never had back pain from sleeping on my stomach. It’s not great for my allergies, though…
@ahacksaw
I definitely agree with that. I started using a little room humidifier right next to my bed and I can tell the difference as when I use it and I don’t. I still blow my nose a bunch in the morning (I have horrible allergies) but I’m not as congested as when I don’t. It just comes out easier, if that makes sense.
Contrary to
that
post I am excellent at sleeping just about anywhere and anytime. Typically heavy sleeper and late riser. Also I sleep on my back only with my legs just slightly apart so my cat can sleep there every night, which leads me to my next sleep attribute: I don’t move AT ALL when I’m asleep…very corpselike.
Night owl, so I sleep late. Light sleeper so every noise wakes me up. Worked great when my kids were babies, not so much now.
If I get 4 hours a night I call it a win. If I get all the way to six hours I’m rejuvenated. I’m now normally getting up at or a little before 4AM. Tend to wake up some time between 1A and 3A. Brain seems to be an extrovert.
It’s a little weird when I get up. After my thing, when I get up it is like I’m a newborn. I try not to fall out of bed and then kind of shuffle to the bedroom door and grip the railing as I go down the stairs one at a time, slowly, with the dog anxiously awaiting my arrival (waggy tails are motivational). After an hour of ‘adjustment’ (and feeding the doggo) I could probably do some crunches… maybe a pushup or several. But every day seems like a reset. Maybe that’s why I get up so early… I like to feel normal when I take my kid to school at 6:15.
@capnjb
Waiting to drive until you are functional is a great plan!
@chienfou Kiddo is 15 now. As soon as she can change a tire we are starting driving lessons. And by driving lessons I mean doing donuts in the church parking lot
@capnjb @chienfou Your church has doughnuts? Do they serve coffee, too?
If OTOH, you are speaking about driving in circles with an underage, non-licensed driver or one without a learner’s permit even, you’d better be careful, though, for according to the old trope, where there are doughnuts, there are police.
P.S. A donut is like a doughnut, but without the “ugh.”
@chienfou @Jackinga You never saw me. * * runs * *
@Jackinga A church with coffee and donuts has a measurable likelihood of being UU.
Phase-shifted, medication-affected, late-night heavy oversleeper.
From the sleep experts
Seriously? Why should we sleep in a cat bed when we have this?
Ying and yang bed buddies.
Who needs a blanket when we have each other?
THIS is a decent cat bed!
@Kidsandliz They’re obviously getting their beauty sleep!
@Kyeh Bunch of lazy bums unless it is 3 in the morning and then it is time to play with noisy toys.
@Kidsandliz @Kyeh I think mine have the decency to wait till 5 but my sleep schedule has been off for ever. For unrelated issues. All I know is they are holy terrors in the morning. Holy terrors after work. During work there’s 8-9 in the bed on the desk with a rotating cast on top of me/the hutch/the keyboard behind the monitor. And in the couch after work.
And they break things lol.
Heavy sleeper, early riser, night owl. Not a very good combination.
Though as I accumulate birthdays, I’m finding that 9pm is the new midnight.