Insomniacs unite!

[The Coop Crew]

Last night I finally slept some but that doesn't mean it was a good quality sleep. I'm so tired and give out now I'm lying down to digest my lunch and may get some good sleep for an hour or so. I worked both regular shift work and swing shift jobs too that scrambled my sleep genes into a block of empty Styrofoam.

It’s always the worst when your body is absolutely exhausted but refuses to sleep.

 

[The Coop Crew]

I’m hoping to sleep good tonight! It was coop clean out day so I am whooped lol

 

[ChicNmom]

I was hoping to fall right asleep and then my brain refused to turn off.
I also can't sleep if I'm hungry. So I'm having a snack and then I'll try one of my tricks to get to sleep.


I'll imagine myself stacking wood or doing some other really boring chore. It gives my mind something to do but it's so boring my brain just gives up.

Or I'll imagine myself on a sunny (tick free) hill side, just lying in the sun, looking at the sky, clouds, feeling the warm sun, .......sometimes a cat shows up to nap with me. Occasionally that works too.

Too late for another Ambien and I don't want it 2 nights in a row.

 

[Nomadicus]

I've had my Melatonin and half dose of Benadryl and I do hope it works. That is the strongest sleep meds I can take due to pain and nerve burn meds. It's really hard a lot of nights to derail the runaway freight train that keeps me awake. My brain can dig up so many things that don't matter to a tinker's yam to keep me awake.

 

[Nomadicus]

I'm up again just like a Professional Insomniac. I did take my 3a.m. Melatonin hoping it will kick in and let me finish the night in the bed.

 

[The Coop Crew]

I'm up again just like a Professional Insomniac. I did take my 3a.m. Melatonin hoping it will kick in and let me finish the night in the bed.

Did you get back to sleep? I didn’t go to bed until around midnight but slept pretty decent.

 

[The Coop Crew]

I was hoping to fall right asleep and then my brain refused to turn off.
I also can't sleep if I'm hungry. So I'm having a snack and then I'll try one of my tricks to get to sleep.


I'll imagine myself stacking wood or doing some other really boring chore. It gives my mind something to do but it's so boring my brain just gives up.

Or I'll imagine myself on a sunny (tick free) hill side, just lying in the sun, looking at the sky, clouds, feeling the warm sun, .......sometimes a cat shows up to nap with me. Occasionally that works too.

Too late for another Ambien and I don't want it 2 nights in a row.

I do that too! I’ll imagine myself in some boring scenario and it generally works

 

[The Coop Crew]

11pm here. Who else is still awake?

 

[Poultrybonkers]

I never sleep... To many depressing thoughts runs through my head.

 

[BackroadGirl57]

Anyone else suck at sleeping?
You can find me browsing BYC all hours of the night. I’ve always had trouble sleeping so I’ve just learned to live on minimal sleep.

Me. I live on about two to three hours of sleep a night.

Some of us got genes from the night watchmen of olden days. After all, groups of humans would not have survived unless someone was keeping an eye out.
I've been on watch for raccoons. Not that they can get to our chickens, but there were 5(!) of them last night trying to get into the feed can, making a terrible racket, and when I went out there the chickens were completely silent in fear. The gang came back a half hour later, really annoying.
The funny thing is, my mom is a morning lark, we seem to have completely opposite schedules. Mine started as a young teen.
Over time we've both come to recognize we get better sleep when the other is awake (noise permitting). When I get up, she's ready for a nice siesta. When she wakes at 4-5 am, my lying in bed finally turns into sleeping. Except on her noisy mornings. She likes a good British cuppa tea, so it's either a kettle or the microwave, then it's the hungry kitties, then the hungry chickens... but I do the afternoon / evening chores.
Sometimes I've been able to fight it and get on a different schedule. I have to be really motivated though. The new schedule is super easy to break, it takes one night to revert back on what takes a week or more to work up to!
I've often wondered if our guard-duty-swapping might have something to do with a survival mindset. A hard thing to know for sure I guess.
We also have time related arguments (lighthearted). To me, this is Wednesday night. When the sun comes up it's Thursday morning. Mom considers anything after 12 am to be the day that's coming. So even if I head to bed early, she'll wake up and wish me a good morning in a chipper voice. I mean, clocks are arbitrary! It's the sun that marks the time. Like when we should eat dinner (after dark). She wants dinner to be at 5 pm no matter the season. Since I have the evening chores it's not like I can get the chickens locked up until dark anyway.
It's a good thing we eat separate meals most of the time

That's literally me and my mom I usually get in bed at 2230, stay awake either on BYC, staring at the ceiling and thinking, or zoning out into a semi-lucid state of awakeness where I can hear and see my dreams, but am awake and in the real world. Almost like hallucinating but not. It's complicated, and rarely happens. Most of the time I'm on BYC.

11pm here. Who else is still awake?

It's 2300 and I am.