I wish i could just turn off on command.
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I seriously don't get it. My wife can do it every night. She just lays down and goes to sleep. Like what? I need at least three hours of wrestling my worst thoughts before I can sleep
Every damn night ... Toss turn toss turn toss turn... Finally sleep, a gnat on the other side of town farts and I'm up... Go to the bathroom, rinse repeat... 1 1/2 hr before I have to be up and fucking gigantic loud as hell disel trucks start their parade...
I just want to sleeeeepppp
I'm very similar. Earplugs have been a game changer for me. Might be worth a whirl for you.
I am basically your wife. When I lie down to sleep, I am unconscious within five minutes. Typically. My issue comes from staying asleep. I will wake up anywhere from 3 to 15 times a night and I fucking hate it.
You need a baby and a toddler! You'll wake up the same number of times but at least you'll have company and something to do.
I learned a while ago that constant thoughts of death and despair before sleep may indicate an anxiety disorder. However, since online diagnoses from strangers are almost always bullshit, I'd like to recommend a weighted blanket. I know it sounds stupid, but the weighted blanket fucks are right. You probably want one.
Can confirm. Bought weighted blanket, and it helps me sleep to the point where I have a hard time without it. So every night I'm sleeping away from home I need to carry a 20lb weighted blanket with me. Not great but the sleep is great so you gotta take the good with the bad I guess.
Maybe you should just hire a person to lie on you when you travel? Hotel concierge could probably find one.
This Dad needs a CPAP so he can get a real 8 hours. Not needing naps during the day is life-changing.
I feel like one 20 min nap mid-day would do wonders for everyone.
I wouldn't mind having a CPAP that doesn't taste like burnt plastic anymore.
Take it apart and wash everything.
I literally just finished replacing the motor on my ResMed S9. It has 8 allen head screws in total, and they were all the same size. I used an allen wrench that came with my 3D printer, it's not marked but measures 2 mm across. It took me less than 10 minutes to get it apart. This guy has a pretty nice breakdown.
Everything except for the main board, SD card, and motor can be washed with dish soap in your sink.
I've taken apart a couple others and they were pretty simple too, so I willing to bet that you can find a tear down video on pretty much all of them out there.
Make sure to wash the water tank really well and wipe it's inside down. Mini cpaps coat there water tanks with a bittering agent that stinks when you run out of water. So just be sure and never to let it run out of water, or turn off your water function.
Did that last week. Follow the teardown guide and cleaned it ALL with isopropal alcohol. Issue remains. I can't not use the water thing unfortunately because I wake up with lips cracked to the point of bleeding.
I'm just gonna die.
To be fair, that will resolve all ailments...
I wish I could partake in nap culture, but I always wake up feeling like I've been ripped from the goddamn afterlife. Always worse than before. My wife and I just spent two grueling sleepless nights in the postpartum ward, and after returning home today she encouraged me to have a 1-hour nap. I obliged and woke up so fucking brain-sick out of sorts that I could barely interact with my surroundings for the first 30 minutes.
After 20 minutes. It's better to go all the way to 90 minutes.
Because you'll have started to enter deep sleep after 20. You probably woke up in the middle of a deep sleep cycle and that's why you felt dead.
One hour seems too long for a nap. Have you tried shorter ones, e. g. 20 minutes? AFAIK napping for only a few minutes doesn't affect you much, too long of a nap causes issues you described.
I think this is mild narcolepsy lol
What the fuck is going on with his leg?
Hopefully just an ugly sock.
You're winning at life when you really stopped giving a fuck and just do whatever ^^
Is that a sock, or does that dude's leg look really nasty?
don't worry about that, a couple critters been gnawin at it but it's healin up real nice
As someone with narcolepsy, this very much sounds like narcolepsy. I also have a cpap so I use an alarm for my naps and keep them to 45 minutes.
I've done this many times. My bf hates seeing me sleeping on the dirty floor, but if I get in bed, I'll be too comfortable and sleep for much longer than I want.
I had a nursing friend of mine do this when she went to bed at night. We used to stay at her place often years ago. She'd reserve us a room in her house, nice place, great bed, very, very comfortable. Then she'd go to her bedroom, get ready for bed, night gown, wash up .... then go to the living room, lie down on the floor in the most uncomfortable posture and go to sleep for an hour or two, change positions, do it again and again. The living room had more open space for her to sprawl around in all kinds of positions.
She had damaged her spine and had a herniated disk which caused her terrible problems .... it was neither serious enough to be treated with surgery nor healthy enough for her to feel comfortable any more. She had tried water beds, posturepedic beds, memory foams, pillows, hanging platforms, various drugs and nothing worked .... except for lying on a flat hard floor for a few hours.
The first few time I saw her when I got up in the night to go to the bathroom, I saw here like this and thought something terrible had happened.
I've been doing this for ages. I finally just started setting an alarm on my smartwatch and ran through a bunch of time trials to see what works.
I can nap somewhere comfy as long as I follow these rules:
If I just can't keep my eyes open or I have a food coma, 15m
If I know I'm sleep deprived, and all I have is lunchtime 45m
If I have a little more time to spare and i'm just dragging, 90m
I've tried 5m increments on either side of those numbers and found I could just wake up at 15,45 and 90 with no problem. At 30m or 60m, I appear to cancel the alarm but fall back asleep.
But I need to pass out right away. If it's going to take me 10m to get to sleep, I need to adjust for that.
My Biology teacher told us multiple times that you should sleep in time divisble by 90 minutes and nothing else. Need a nap, don't bother if you don't have 90 minutes. Going to sleep regularly, and have to get up at 7? Well if you go to bed at 10 you should set your alarm for 7. Go to bed at 1030, set your alarm for 530.
I can't remember if it was related to some biological thing she tried to teach us or was just an old wives tale she stood by, but I have followed it ever since. I always feel groggy if I awake at one of the off hours.
The idea is you want that full rem cycle. You're mildly paralyzed during it and waking out out of sync is a bad time
Average person's REM cycle varies. Time to sleep varies.
I just did a couple of months worth of nap testing and found when I could and couldn't get up. And unless the nap was so short that I was still in the state I was in when I passed out, I counted it a success.
interesting pattern observation. iirc, they roughly align with early sleep phase durations. Which would explain the difficulty waking up when you're off the usual times, as you're deeper asleep
I think his foot is falling off. Or it already did and has been crudely stitched back onto his leg.
Narcolepsy?
No worries, I have relatives with alcoholism too
I kind of used to do this, but it was largely due to chronic deprivation. Working 2 full time jobs and apl that
The "sleep will win"?
If you're having trouble sleeping, I suggest retiring. Retiring does wonders for being able to sleep.
based.
I'm very envious i didn't think of this myself.
inemuri
I think he's breaking some etiquette rules, but good for him.
I do the same thing. Napping on the ground counterintuitively helps when I have a stiff back. I wake up and the tension is gone. At family gatherings I prefer the couch though.
Can't let the sleep win