Sleep Deprivation
For the past 2 weeks I've been having some major problems falling asleep. Staying asleep doesn't seem to be a problem for me--as my husband would say, I could drive the cows home with my snoring--I digress....Scientists don't even know why we have to sleep. We all know what the consequences are when we don't. We get groggy, irritable and depressed. I've been feeling like that a lot lately...and it's hard to understand or reason why.
The fact of the matter is, I can't seem to turn off the inner voice in my head at night. I seem to review the events of the day, sometimes in great detail and I can't stop it. I kick myself for getting up so late, being those 10-15 minutes late getting into work, not finishing the work from the previous day, forgetting to make my lunch, or any other such meaningless thing I dealt with.
I really realized that this sleep deprivation affected me this morning while heading out to work. I stood, with eyes 1/2 shut, waiting for the elevator to open and take me downstairs to work. It took a good 2 minutes before I realized that the elevator wasn't coming because I forgot to press the button.
I suppose I'll have to do what I did back in my university days when I went through a similar situation. It was suggested that I just pull all of my ideas out of my head and put them onto paper. That way I could just write the thoughts down, think about whatever it was when I wrote it down, and leave the thought on the paper. It's worth a shot at least....for my own sanity!
posted by MagicalCoffeeCup @ 6:35 PM
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3 Comments:
I was like that for a year or so. I would get up in the morning, do the usual preparations and drive to work (some days not really remembering how I got there) or school. At the end of the day I would have forgotten where I had parked. Several minutes of trying to retrace my steps of that morning and I would finally remember where my car was. I now try to park my car in the same area every day at the train station just in case that happens again.
Some suggestions that worked for me:
Cut out aspertame, cut out caffeine, only relaxing activities at night, write out a little list of things you have to do tomorrow (that way its not in your head), bath, no internet before bed(that one is hard), MELATONIN!!!!, and if all else fails, that drug Abraham Lincoln and the beaver are talking about in that commercial!
From Diane...I can't remember my password!
I always found video games and TV before bed got me too hyper. I was briefly hooked on MarioKarts once and that was so no good. When I finally did manage to fall asleep all I dreamt about was the damn game all night long... in fast motion! Talk about being exhausted in the morning!
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