I too keep waking up in the middle of the night, about 3 or 4 o'clock - worrying about garden of all things! Silly how important some things seem when there is nothing you can do about them!
Perhaps during the day I should just work harder out there so exhaustion kicks in for a full nights sleep.
“Coffee. Garden. Coffee. Does a good morning need anything else?” —Betsy Cañas Garmon
Not silly at all, address the issue, keep a note pad by the bed, write stuff down, get sorted in your head your plan of attack, it will soon come right
It is rubbish, but you do get used (?) to it, after lots of studies they found out that my brain simply dosent go in to a restful sleep very often, im a bit hopeless if i have to work, but if i go at my own pace im ok. One of the worst things is that i seem to crave sugar as its easy for my body to use- very naughty (but a good excuse! ).
Well. I woke up at 3 when I fell off a building looking for the dog!!! Got back to sleep and woke at 6 because the house was been taken over by snakes.......no smilies but puzzled smilie!!
Glad you slept a bit better Pauline, I've come to the conclusion that I only need between 6-7 hours sleep I think.
My heart goes out to anyone who finds it difficult to sleep.
I while ago I had the misfortune to suffer from a really severe case of nasal polyps....this resulted in my having to breath through my mouth for most of the time. Whist this was tolerable during the day, it did present big problems while trying to sleep ie dry mouth and awful bouts of dreaming I was suffocating or drowning when my mouth closed.....the upshot being that I had weeks & weeks of sleepless nights.
Finally, I was so desperate, I paid privately for the operation to have them removed.
I can well understand why some sadist dreamt up the idea of using sleep deprivation as a form of torture.
I think that if you can talk openly about it you then realise that there are a lot of people in the same boat so you dont think you are alone.
I slept quite well last night as I shifted a load of granite chippings around the drive and laid the membrane neat,was absolutely whacked!
In the early spring through to summer I always take a note pad to bed then when I am awake worrying that I might forget to do something, I write it down, another worry less.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I always feel really sorry for anyone who who cant sleep. I always wake much too early in the summer because the room is too light, I really need a blackout blind and every year I say I'll sort in but never seem to. I really will this year. Ive learned to be a bit more relaxed about not sleeping, mainly since I stopped working, because in my head I know that if I have to I can catch up during the day. It was a lot worse when I worked because then I kept telling myself I had to sleep otherwise I wouldnt cope at work.
Now when I wake up, I give myself a time and if Im still away 30minutes later. I get up and make myself a drink and either read or watch a tv programme usually about an hour or so later I'm tired again and take myself to bed. Its definitely the lack of pressure of 'having to get a good night's sleep' that has helped.
Yeah, they really dont like it when you sleep at work!
For some reason the best sleep i get is when is stinking hot out doors and im on the lounger! Also sleep well when its time to get up, as many of us do- whats that abou??? I could wake up to a pin dropping during the night
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I too keep waking up in the middle of the night, about 3 or 4 o'clock - worrying about garden of all things! Silly how important some things seem when there is nothing you can do about them!
Perhaps during the day I should just work harder out there so exhaustion kicks in for a full nights sleep.
Glad you slept a bit better Pauline, I've come to the conclusion that I only need between 6-7 hours sleep I think.
Clearly a couple of hours conversing with friends on this thread helps you sleep better.
My heart goes out to anyone who finds it difficult to sleep.
I while ago I had the misfortune to suffer from a really severe case of nasal polyps....this resulted in my having to breath through my mouth for most of the time. Whist this was tolerable during the day, it did present big problems while trying to sleep ie dry mouth and awful bouts of dreaming I was suffocating or drowning when my mouth closed.....the upshot being that I had weeks & weeks of sleepless nights.
Finally, I was so desperate, I paid privately for the operation to have them removed.
I can well understand why some sadist dreamt up the idea of using sleep deprivation as a form of torture.
Pleased to hear you had a better night, Pauline.
Pleased you got some sleep Pauline.
I think that if you can talk openly about it you then realise that there are a lot of people in the same boat so you dont think you are alone.
I slept quite well last night as I shifted a load of granite chippings around the drive and laid the membrane neat,was absolutely whacked!
In the early spring through to summer I always take a note pad to bed then when I am awake worrying that I might forget to do something, I write it down, another worry less.
I always feel really sorry for anyone who who cant sleep. I always wake much too early in the summer because the room is too light, I really need a blackout blind and every year I say I'll sort in but never seem to. I really will this year. Ive learned to be a bit more relaxed about not sleeping, mainly since I stopped working, because in my head I know that if I have to I can catch up during the day. It was a lot worse when I worked because then I kept telling myself I had to sleep otherwise I wouldnt cope at work.
Now when I wake up, I give myself a time and if Im still away 30minutes later. I get up and make myself a drink and either read or watch a tv programme usually about an hour or so later I'm tired again and take myself to bed. Its definitely the lack of pressure of 'having to get a good night's sleep' that has helped.
For some reason the best sleep i get is when is stinking hot out doors and im on the lounger! Also sleep well when its time to get up, as many of us do- whats that abou??? I could wake up to a pin dropping during the night