so...insomnia...

[karenor]

i've always had issues with it...but never like the past two days. how i am up and functioning right now is truly beyond me. Night before last, i slept for perhaps 20 minutes the whole night, and only about 10 of it consecutive. when i tried to sleep yesterday during the day, despite having no sleep the night before, i only got about 15 minutes in. i just could NOT fall asleep. So i figure sleeping will be no problem at night (last night) having had no sleep the previous day and night and being dead tired. oh how i was wrong. i crawled into bed at the reasonable hour of 11 oclock. by the time i got all settled for sleep it was near midnight. then my mom decided to have a freakout up to and including banging the toilet tank cover onto the tank in her bathroom which shares a wall with my bedroom. and a whole bunch of yelling. but that quieted down fairly quickly. i still had a lot of trouble falling asleep, but finally did some time between 1 and 2 am, much to my perceived relief. BUT, i was up at 4 am, and that was the end of my sleep for the night. And today i've been hanging out with my dad, and therefore, no attempt at napping, and it is already a quarter after 4 so it is a bad idea to try that now.

i have no idea why i can't sleep. it's not particularly hot now...in fact the days and nights have been fairly cool. my bed is just as comfy as its always been. i just can't stay in one position and the slightest noise wakes me up and when i do manage to fall asleep my dreams are crazy and scary and wake me up.

so, how long can one go without sustained REM sleep before one dies?

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[about-worth.livejournal.com]

man, i'm sorry...um, i knew a guy in high school who didn't sleep for 6 straight days (or so he said), and he said he was on a high until that morning in class when he fell asleep in mid sentence while talking to me. it was quite...strange...

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[karenor.livejournal.com]

wow, that is weird. i've gone on very little sleep and a long time in between sleep, well enough. but really when there is no excuse for it (i.e. not anxious over something) total lack of sleepability isn't that common for me.

[alannahrose.livejournal.com]

*smoochy smoochy*

Poor, sweet Karenor~I hope you get lots of sleep tonight!
;k

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[karenor.livejournal.com]

hmm...we'll see. i have to be on the ball in the morning to get good seats for sandiego...

thanks for the love

;k