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| tobafett |
Posted - 07/08/2005 : 21:47:23
anyone else suffer (enjoy) it?
insomnia. n. Chronic inability to fall asleep or remain asleep for an adequate length of time.
i don't sleep much...you? |
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| VoVat |
Posted - 08/19/2005 : 13:54:48
I don't know if the water is still in there. I just know that my ear still feels all blocked up. It was infected at one point, but I think that went away. I tried some earwax removal drops, but they didn't totally clear it up, and I don't know that I want to try them again while I'm still using a different kind of ear medicine. If my ear still feels clogged on Monday, I'll call the doctor again, but I'm sick of this damned ear costing me so much money.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 08/18/2005 : 18:11:06
Are you serious, VV? You don't want water stuck in your ear too long. It can calcify and really mess up your vestibular system.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| VoVat |
Posted - 08/18/2005 : 18:09:48
quote:
Funny you should ask. Some water got stuck in it this afternoon at the pool and it kinda hurts. But I haven't cut it off or anything. Yet.
That happened to me a few weeks ago, and it still doesn't feel much better.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
| Erebus |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 05:37:47
About ten years ago, disgusted with work and life, I did not work at all for two full years, exhausting my savings. During that time my sleep cycle gradually rotated through the twenty-four hour period three times. For example, over three consecutive eight month periods my daily rising time moved forward until it reached where it had been eight months earlier. |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 01:43:23
Ok, because for some reason I have some sort of bee in my bonnet about this, sorry, it was the building
that the arrow points at.
pretty huh? Bangor is you know, even though it's in Wales.
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 01:32:20
I used to work nights in care homes, 8pm to 8am and there was only ever three hours work in a night, the home was right on the menai straights opposite the Bangor pier and it was beautiful at night, you could see the lights of bangor in the distance and the sun coming up over the sea. It was a big old manor house with a grand lounge and dining room where I'd study in the night and stare out of the window a lot.
this was the view from the top of the road where the home was (the home was futher down than this)
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little more like this actually
It wasn't a nice home though, this happened while I was there:
http://www.guide2caretoday.co.uk/news3/113.htm
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics |
| Stuart |
Posted - 08/13/2005 : 01:14:11
I think I might have issues with insomnia.... This morning I went to bed at 4:00am but I was awake at 7:00am and couldn't sleep in at all.. Maybe its not insomnia, it possibly something to do with my body clock being used to getting up at 7am for work... but I never am ever able to lie in at all, unless I have the worst hangover (and even then I am awake but just cannot get out of bed).
This is a high class bureau de change, not some Punch & Judy show on the seafront at Margate! |
| tobafett |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 22:15:02
2 1/2 hours sleep last nite (stayed up listening to excellent fb.netter's mixes and to watch the leonid meteors).
i napped for abt. 30 minutes earlier so i should be set for most of tonite! |
| therewererumours |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 20:35:28
Wow, actually, 2 or 3 years was hard for me, I don't know what 15 years has done to you  . It's 4.34am, should I call it a night? 
Join the Cult of  |
| kathryn |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 20:24:38
quote:
Originally posted by therewererumours
Did/does anyone work nights? I did for a good while, I really used to enjoy it, I felt like the only person alive on Earth, plus all the very difficult patients/specials were asleep (I worked in hospitals and institutions as a Care Assistant).I had lots of time to read and think (in between the actual work), which I enjoyed. I've become a very night person, with my freinds always saying "only you could have stayed up and watched all that weird stuff"! Of course you get totally out of synch with the "living"(normal people), sleeping all day is not nice, it can really fuck you up, but you get into a rhythm, which is hard to get out of.
Join the Cult of
I worked nights for 15 years.
It's exactly as you describe it.
For 9 of those years it was just my best friend and me working, all alone, until 1 a.m., basically being paid to hang together with our favorite person on the planet and crank out work we were born to do while everybody else slept. It was the coolest.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| therewererumours |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 20:17:18
Did/does anyone work nights? I did for a good while, I really used to enjoy it, I felt like the only person alive on Earth, plus all the very difficult patients/specials were asleep (I worked in hospitals and institutions as a Care Assistant).I had lots of time to read and think (in between the actual work), which I enjoyed. I've become a very night person, with my freinds always saying "only you could have stayed up and watched all that weird stuff"! Of course you get totally out of synch with the "living"(normal people), sleeping all day is not nice, it can really fuck you up, but you get into a rhythm, which is hard to get out of.
Join the Cult of |
| kathryn |
Posted - 08/12/2005 : 19:50:33
Fuck. I can just tell it's gonna be another 4-hours-of-sleep night.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 07/13/2005 : 02:21:00
quote:
Originally posted by Carolynanna
Does anyone else wonder what kitty would be like if she wasn't chronically sleep deprived?
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Don't believe the hype.
I dread to think myself, I honestly do!
and you're questioning the sciences
and questioning religion
you're looking like an idiot
and you no longer care.
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| danjersey |
Posted - 07/12/2005 : 22:03:52
i marvel at parents, i have many friends & family that are. you have the top job of the planet. |
| Llamadance |
Posted - 07/12/2005 : 21:59:08
I don't need insomnia to get sleep deprivation. I've got two kids who woke up at 5:30am. (It's 6am now) :(
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| danjersey |
Posted - 07/12/2005 : 21:53:52
i would'nt say i suffer from Insomnia, my problem is i dont look forward to going asleep, i want to stay up, i want to be on a different clock and see the sun come up all around the world. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 07/12/2005 : 21:11:17
Funny you should ask. Some water got stuck in it this afternoon at the pool and it kinda hurts. But I haven't cut it off or anything. Yet.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| danjersey |
Posted - 07/12/2005 : 20:51:59
yeah you're good, hows your ear? |
| kathryn |
Posted - 07/12/2005 : 20:47:53
I painted it myself.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| danjersey |
Posted - 07/12/2005 : 20:47:32
that is a very nice pic, thank you. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 07/12/2005 : 20:19:01
"I often think the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." - Vincent van Gogh
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| Carolynanna |
Posted - 07/11/2005 : 01:01:14
Just recently have I had to deal with this.
The thing that sucks is that I am tired.
Does anyone else wonder what kitty would be like if she wasn't chronically sleep deprived?
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Don't believe the hype. |
| Carl |
Posted - 07/10/2005 : 15:31:28
Kurt Cobain pretended to have narcolepsy when he did'nt feel like doing an interview.
More pop facts latter!! ;) |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 07/10/2005 : 13:26:03
I know it doesn't have anything to do with it silly. It just interests me and I have never known anyone who has it or anyone who knows of someone that has it.
Don't believe the type!
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| kathryn |
Posted - 07/10/2005 : 11:40:45
quote:
Originally posted by Homers_pet_monkey
Does anyone here know a Narcoleptic?
Don't believe the type!
Yeah - Carl. No seriously, my good friend's mom was narcoleptic and more than once my friend had to take the wheel as a young girl when her mom fell asleep. Why do you ask?
Narcolepsy has nothing to do with insomnia or lack of sleep, btw.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| Carl |
Posted - 07/10/2005 : 09:25:28
ZZZZ..(Harumph!)..huh? :) |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 07/10/2005 : 08:39:28
Does anyone here know a Narcoleptic?
Don't believe the type!
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| kathryn |
Posted - 07/10/2005 : 08:04:24
File this under "Things One Learns On The Forum":
until this thread I assumed that people enjoyed insomnia,considered it bonus time to do fun stuff; I didn't realize that some of you suffer because of it and wish you were asleep. Best of luck to you.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 07/10/2005 : 06:10:16
quote:
Originally posted by Domestiques
No I dont mind flippancy, I have always had problems with my sleep, I also have night terrors which is bad aswell, and I am used to the insomnia, my wife is as well.
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“I want to be a star!” I cried
They said, “You’re overqualified.
Why don’t you learn to tune your damn guitar?”
You have my sympathies, I've always had trouble with sleep I was saying the other day, If I don't get to sleep I won't get to sleep, If I get to sleep I'll have these vivid freaky dreams or wake up in a panic after a couple of hours (it's why i have to sleep with a light on) and if I get to sleep and don't dream I'll wake up and not be able to get to sleep. It's not all the time, sometimes I'll go through phases of fairly 'normal' sleep but it's weird more than it's normal.
and you're questioning the sciences
and questioning religion
you're looking like an idiot
and you no longer care.
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| Domestiques |
Posted - 07/09/2005 : 22:20:04
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
quote:
Originally posted by Domestiques
insomnia is an illness, I hate it and suffer really badly from it, people say oh you get to read or watch films or surf the internet, but its been about 5 years since I had a good nights sleep.
I'm sorry it's so hard on you, Domestiques. I didn't mean to sound flippant about it, for me it is a positive thing... she says having bolted awake after 4 hours of sleep, raring to go.
Sometimes, no matter how shitty things get, you have to just do a little dance. - Frank
No I dont mind flippancy, I have always had problems with my sleep, I also have night terrors which is bad aswell, and I am used to the insomnia, my wife is as well.
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“I want to be a star!” I cried
They said, “You’re overqualified.
Why don’t you learn to tune your damn guitar?” |
| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 07/09/2005 : 10:01:01
quote:
Originally posted by Domestiques
insomnia is an illness, I hate it and suffer really badly from it, people say oh you get to read or watch films or surf the internet, but its been about 5 years since I had a good nights sleep.
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“I want to be a star!” I cried
They said, “You’re overqualified.
Why don’t you learn to tune your damn guitar?”
have you tried talking to your dr about sleeping pills?? or benedryl is safe. |
| tobafett |
Posted - 07/09/2005 : 09:43:21
quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten
girls
i still don't get it...i'm slow, you know. |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 07/09/2005 : 09:28:53
quote:
Originally posted by Doog
quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten
girls
that would be an eccumenical matter!
www.myspace.com/doog - www.doog.tk
hahahahahahahahahaha
oh thats funny,
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| VoVat |
Posted - 07/09/2005 : 07:02:24
I'm generally pretty good at sleeping for significant lengths of time, but I've actually been having some trouble as of late. Maybe it has something to do with the wildly fluctuating weather.
I was all out of luck, like a duck that died. I was all out of juice, like a moose denied. |
| Carl |
Posted - 07/09/2005 : 06:06:34
I can't sleep at night. I sometimes sit up reading till 2.00 AM, then I'm bolloxed the next morn. :) |
