FabSwingers.com forum: Sleep pattern

By *isscheekychops OP Woman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

So my sleep pattern is shit, I may get 5 hours a night and I have to be up at 5am on a weekday..the younger I was I could cope but the older I get the more sleep I need but I overthink at night...

What is your sleep pattern like?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

About 6 hours a night depending on my bladder interrupting it. On the whole I sleep well. I also dose when I have an opportunity.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mine is totally dreadful like yours. Some nights I get 3-4 hours. Spend the day feeling like a zombie while working. Then the whole battle starts again at bedtime.

Mrs N on the other hand, head + pillow + 5mins and she's gone for the night.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

Mine goes through phases.

I didn't sleep last night and that means that I will find it difficult to sleep tonight.

I use lavender to help me sleep.

I find that if the thoughts are proving impossible to push away then getting up and standing on one leg, writing the alphabet with the raised foot and repeating on the other side helps clear the thoughts. I go back to bed with a clearer head and more chance of sleeping.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

dreadful...i sometimes dont get in till 11,and have to be up at 5..other days im home early,like tonight,think i'll have an early night and cant settle..there's regular work patern so cant get into a routine..

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston

Get about 6 hours a week at most.. the joys of clinical insomnia

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

7 hours, midnight to 7am.

I used to b able to do the odd night of 4am, and only feel a little rough. Nowadays a night of 2am wipes me out.

I hate getting old.

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By *isscheekychops OP Woman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

"Mine goes through phases.

I didn't sleep last night and that means that I will find it difficult to sleep tonight.

I use lavender to help me sleep.

I try and just think fuck it but I'll try your solution

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"About 6 hours a night depending on my bladder interrupting it. On the whole I sleep well. I also dose when I have an opportunity."

There was a sleep specialist on a R4 programme last month who said that a dozing is good for you and that getting a couple of hours, getting up and doing something else before going back to bed is also fine.

Lying there fretting that you can't sleep doesn't help.

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Shift work = no real pattern. Just days when I feel less dead than others

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like my sleep but I also can't fall asleep before midnight. Up early for work during the week but I catch up on the weekend or at least try to!

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"Mine goes through phases.

I didn't sleep last night and that means that I will find it difficult to sleep tonight.

I use lavender to help me sleep.

I try and just think fuck it but I'll try your solution

I go to sleep with the telly on, which everyone says is wrong. It works for me as way of cancelling out my tinnitus, which is louder when I don't have external noise.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"So my sleep pattern is shit, I may get 5 hours a night and I have to be up at 5am on a weekday..the younger I was I could cope but the older I get the more sleep I need but I overthink at night...

What is your sleep pattern like? "

Chequered at best.

Some nights my mind won't shut up.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"About 6 hours a night depending on my bladder interrupting it. On the whole I sleep well. I also dose when I have an opportunity.

Lying there fretting that you can't sleep doesn't help.

It's a couple of years since I slept badly. I'm great at sleeping, it's a key strength zzzzz

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

Oh, and if I doze during the day even for five minutes, I can't then sleep that night.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have a natural waking body clock, that moves forward and back throughout the seasons. Peak of summer I wake from 5am, this forwards to 7.30am in winter. No matter what time I go to bed, I will wake to my body clock. Once awake, I can't lie in. If I go to bed at a reasonable time, I sleep well and get a good night

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

"I go to sleep with the telly on, which everyone says is wrong. It works for me as way of cancelling out my tinnitus, which is louder when I don't have external noise.

I use music, but have to set it to switch off, otherwise it seems to distract me from sleeping well, and I'm a space cadet the following morning.

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By *s_macWoman
over a year ago

Traffic land

I get to sleep ok, but can't maintain it. Often wake around 2am and then I'm awake for a couple of hours

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

I'm really good at sleeping too, close my eyes - gone for 7 hours at least

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My watch has a sleep tracking function and looking back over the past couple of weeks I'll get between 5 and 5 1/2 hours a night.

I really need to start getting more sleep!

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By *isscheekychops OP Woman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

I wake up at 3.30am every day I'm not sure why

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

"I wake up at 3.30am every day I'm not sure why

Maybe your subconscious works in a call centre in Mumbai and doesn't want to be late?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I wake up at 3.30am every day I'm not sure why

Maybe your subconscious works in a call centre in Mumbai and doesn't want to be late?"

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Sleep? Pattern? Whats this

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Maybe your subconscious works in a call centre in Mumbai and doesn't want to be late?"

Tell that to the "Parallel Universe" crowd ...cos I bet they'd fucking believe it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i do find reading helps..seems to help me wind down more than tv,i think because it occupies my brain, distacting it from worrying about whatever nonsense im worrying about..

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

Pattern is not the right word to describe my sleep. There's no pattern to it at all!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I used to be awesome at sleeping. Nowadays it's cyclical - I'll have a bunch of nights when sleeping comes easily and then a bunch where I can't fall asleep until 4am.

It's usually fine, though, because I spend the night reading.

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By *isscheekychops OP Woman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

"I wake up at 3.30am every day I'm not sure why

Maybe your subconscious works in a call centre in Mumbai and doesn't want to be late?"

I think it's because of something but not that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Used to sleep deep and for over 8 or 9 hours but now its 6 sometimes 5 hours depending on what shift im on at work but i try and catch up when im on late shifts.

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By *isscheekychops OP Woman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

"Sleep? Pattern? Whats this"

Do you not get much sleep?

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By *isscheekychops OP Woman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

I know this is going to sound sad but I sleep well when I'm in bed with someone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cheeky

Planet spa sleep mist £4.50 from Avon brilliant stuff, spray your pillow just as your getting into bed.

I also used a relaxation thing on YouTube to help me

switch off try the music ones opposed to the god awful bloke talking after 10 mins in he needed punching.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I know this is going to sound sad but I sleep well when I'm in bed with someone "

Fuck that. Marc's been gone a few days and I haven't slept this well in years!

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

"I know this is going to sound sad but I sleep well when I'm in bed with someone "

You find the sound of snoring soothing and therapeutic?

Expect marriage proposals...

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By *isscheekychops OP Woman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

"I know this is going to sound sad but I sleep well when I'm in bed with someone

You find the sound of snoring soothing and therapeutic?

Expect marriage proposals...

I snore when d*unk and over tired....god help any man

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Last few years I've suffered from insomnia, probably due to stress/worry. Try to get as least 7hrs a night during the week which if I've had a busy day is do-able but sometimes I just cannot switch off and I end up being up for 48hrs+. Or if I wake up at 2-3am thats it, I might as well get up and start my day because there is no chance of me nodding off again

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By *aucy tiggerWoman
over a year ago

Back where I belong

Crap, regularly awake 2-3 times a night. A good night for me is when I only wake up once. Nothing seems to work so I just go with the flow now xx

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By *ettyboop61Woman
over a year ago

St Neots

Don't drink coffee or tea before bed caffeine keeps your brain awake

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By *asokittyWoman
over a year ago

Nr Worksop

Mine is screwed from various factors.

I've had insomnia for as long as I can remember. However when I do sleep due to pain and other factors I can sleep for 18 hours straight.

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By *ntriguedcouple7Couple
over a year ago

Surrey

When my brain won't switch off listening to a podcast can really help me. Either a regular topic where I know the presenter's voice is soothing or the Sleep With Me podcast which is specifically for helping people nod off!

I have found I can't listen to his Game of Thrones episodes though as I keep trying to picture it/follow the storyline.

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By *oddyWoman
over a year ago

between havant and chichester

so used to doing nights and sleeping daytimes had to have background music on though.

im lucky if i get a cpl hrs at night now hopefully that will change soon when back to doing shifts as will have to be up at 5.30 am

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Normally I can sleep on a chickens lip anywhere but when I'm working on the shift I do it goes out the window example: this week I've worked days afternoons and now I'm on nights yesturday think I had 45 mins sleep and I was suffering big time. Last shift tonight tho so yay

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By *rcticFoxxxWoman
over a year ago

Hereabouts

Got up at gone noon today... Went to bed at 5/6am ish for the past couple of nights.. my sleep pattern is horrendous. I need to get a routine though because my new meds have to be evenly spaced through the day!

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"I know this is going to sound sad but I sleep well when I'm in bed with someone "
only time i sleep and not always then is when someone is in bed or im in a confind space where i cant move

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By *obwithkiltMan
over a year ago

Belton

Crap sleep at moment as not working regularly... Can stay awake a good 30 hrs some nights... other days sleep for 15mins and it feels like a full night's sleep... Just don't want to go to bed... Always better with someone there... Even if I snore

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By *isscheekychops OP Woman
over a year ago

The land of grey peas and bacon

"Crap sleep at moment as not working regularly... Can stay awake a good 30 hrs some nights... other days sleep for 15mins and it feels like a full night's sleep... Just don't want to go to bed... Always better with someone there... Even if I snore

Can you snore with me lol

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

I'm missing years of it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have no sleep pattern and long for blissful insomnia.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I know this is going to sound sad but I sleep well when I'm in bed with someone only time i sleep and not always then is when someone is in bed or im in a confind space where i cant move "

Make a little bed in your cupboard i had an old sub of mine sleep in my cupboard from time to time.

She loved it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I rarely have more than 6 hours sleep.

What I really hate is when I've been working a lot and have had very little sleep each night and I hit a level of exhaustion where I'm too tired to sleep. It's a weird sensation and not a nice one.

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"I rarely have more than 6 hours sleep.

What I really hate is when I've been working a lot and have had very little sleep each night and I hit a level of exhaustion where I'm too tired to sleep. It's a weird sensation and not a nice one. "

You're still young and relatively pretty.

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By *obwithkiltMan
over a year ago

Belton

Can you snore with me lol

Would love to

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By *carletcoupleCouple
over a year ago

manchester

I wish I had a pattern. I can get 5-6 hours on a good nigh 1-2 on a bad one and something in between on a normal night. I have spent the last 20 years on a late-ish shift so a 01:00 - 03:00 bed time is normal even if I get up early. As a younger man this was a doddle but it's now getting harder, 3 hours and I wake up feeling great, nod off again and go into a deep sleep for that last hour and wake up bolloxed..

. Normally no matter how early I get up I am still sat here at this time of night.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sporadic!

Rarely go to bed before midnight n usually read in bed for an hour or two.

I'll get between 3-5 hours most nights but catch up snoozing through the day if work allows and get up an hour or two later than usual at the weekends.

Could be worse!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

mines f**ked.

always has been. I can't sleep after being awake for just 16 hours. I start getting tired 20 maybe 22 hours after I wake up so waking at say 7am means not being sleepy till maybe 5 the following morning. I'm fine with just a few hours sleep but left to my own devices i'll sleep a full 8 or 9 hours so I need a 30 odd hour day to accommodate my pattern :/

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I cant sleep at all to much on my mind,plus iv got tinnitus wich is deafining and doesnt help

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

"I wake up at 3.30am every day I'm not sure why

Check how you are feeling. You have been upset about the lost relationship. 3.30-4am waking is a classic depression/stress symptom.

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By *aucy tiggerWoman
over a year ago

Back where I belong

"I wake up at 3.30am every day I'm not sure why

Check how you are feeling. You have been upset about the lost relationship. 3.30-4am waking is a classic depression/stress symptom.

That would explain a lot - morning xx

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By *ficouldMan
over a year ago

a quandary, could you change my mind?

My sleep pattern is completely adrift, most nights for the last couple of years it's completely 'what sleep', but it's goes in waves. Positive being time to have a look through fab

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